Lorettonian Society

Dr Michael Frederick Gray-Buchanan (1933-38), who died on 15th January, 2012, at the age of 91 years, was a prefect and in the XV and Cricket XI. He graduated M.B. Ch.B. from the University of Edinburgh and became a F.R.C.P. (Edin.). He became a Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at the University of Leeds. (The obituary of his OL son, David, is above.)

William M. Jones (1938)

4th March 2003

William Morris Jones (1934-38) died on 4th March, 2003 after a long illness. He was in the XV and the fencing team, and later played for the Liverpool XV. During the War he served as a Captain in the Royal Engineers in India, Persia, Iraq, Syria, Italy and Austria; he was a Major in the T.A. from 1951-57. After qualifying as a solicitor, he became a partner in Duncan Oakshott, Morris Jones and Holden in Liverpool until 1967 when he became Assistant Registrar of the Chancer...

Alan R. McInroy (1939)

15th September 2005

Alan Roderick McInroy (1929-38) died on 15th September, 2005. He was a prefect and in the XV, the cricket, athletics and swimming teams and was Captain of Fives. He served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in the Western Desert, where he was taken PoW. After graduating from Hertford College, Oxford, he qualified as a CA. He became Managing Director of Edinburgh Fund Managers before co-founding with his stepson (Victor Wood OL) the family personal investment managemen...

Neil Macvicar (1938)

3rd May 2011

Sheriff Neil Macvicar, QC, MA, LLB, (1933-38) died on 3 May, 2011, in his 91st year. He served with the Royal Artillery from 1940-45 in North Africa, Italy and Greece – where he met his wife Marily whom he married in 1949. After he was demobbed he went up to Oxford University as an Open Scholar to read Classics at Oriel College and subsequently read Law (LLB) at Edinburgh University before being called to the Scottish Bar in 1948. He was chairman of the Medical Appeals tri...

William J. Shaw (1937)

4th April 2010

William James Shaw (1933-37) died on April 4th, 2010. He went on to the University of Edinburgh. During the War he served as a Major in the Royal Artillery before transferring to London Scottish, serving in North Africa and Italy: he was awarded the T.D. He later worked as a Wine and Spirit Merchant becoming a Director of Hill Thomson & Co. Ltd in Edinburgh and Deputy Chairman of Glenlivet Distillers Ltd. He later moved to British Columbia, Canada, where his daughter, Eil...

Timothy B. Fitzgeorge-Parker (1938)

18th August 2006

Timothy Barclay Fitzgeorge-Parker (1934-38) who died on August 14 aged 86, was in the XV and the athletics and boxing teams. A well-known personality in the world of horse racing; after a "good war" with the Royal Scots Greys he enjoyed a brief career as a trainer before becoming a racing journalist and prolific author. He went from Loretto to Sandhurst where he was reputed to be the last man fully-trained as a cavalry instructor, and in 1939 was commissioned into the Royal...

Ian K.A. McNaughton (1938)

22nd April 2011

Lt-Colonel Ian Kenneth Arnold McNaughton F.I.Mech.E. (1934-38) died on 22nd April, 2011, aged 90. After studying at R.M.A. Sandhurst he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers: he served in Ireland and later Belgium, Germany and Holland where he was liaison officer between the army and the Netherlands railways. He was twice Mentioned in Despatches. He returned home to read engineering at the Military College in Shrivenham. He retired from the army in 1963 in the rank of Li...

Thomas R.C. Ross (1937)

10th January 2000

Thomas Russell Clayton Ross (1934-37) who died in his 80th year on January 10th, 2000, at North Leach, Gloucestershire, was in the athletics team. In WWII he served as a Lieutenant (acting Capt) in the Rifle Brigade and was captured during the Western Desert campaign in 1942. He was an actor at the Gate Theatre Dublin for many years and later worked for the Forestry Commission and was a representative for the Timber Growers Organisation Ltd. in London. He wrote poetry under...

David A.H. Sime (1939)

29th December 2010

Colonel David Alistair Hope Sime, OBE, MC, TD (1934-39) who died on 29th December, 2010, was a prefect and in the XV. He read Economics at Jesus College, Cambridge. He served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy as a Captain in 178th Field Regt, Royal Artillery, the Lowland Gunners. The regiment joined Montgomery’s Eighth Army in 1942, deploying their 25-pounder guns at El Alamein: his task was to organise the fire plans in support of the infantry and cavalry and he also work...

Eric R. Whiteley (1939)

16th January 2007

Eric Russell Whiteley (1934-39) died on 16th January, 2007. He was a prefect. He went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, to read Engineering. During the War he served in the Royal Engineers in North Africa, Italy and Germany. He became a director of Whiteley, Moor and Zwanenberg Ltd, importers of provisions, in London. Following his retirement from the company in 1973 he became southern agent for Billington & Sons Ltd, the Liverpool sugar merchants. He is survived by his w...

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