Lorettonian Society

George Jordison (Jordie) Anderson (1934-39) is reported to have died (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date). During the war he served as a Captain in the Royal Artillery in the Middle East and with S.E.A.C. He read Law at Peterhouse, Cambridge and became a partner with Lipton & Jeffries, Solicitors, in London. He is survived by his daughter Corinna.

Francis O. Brown (1940)

16th May 2007

Francis Oughterson Brown (1934-40) who died on 16th May, 2007, was a prefect, Editor of The Lorettonian and Pipe Major. After studying medicine at Caius College Cambridge and qualifying in Glasgow he was posted to the Canal Zone, Palestine and Cyprus with the Royal Army Medical Corps. In the post-war confusion he enjoyed working around Queen’s Regulations - for example converting Sick Parade into individual appointments, or using individual needles. On return to his native...

Thomas E. Woodsend (1934)

21st August 2003

Thomas Eadie Woodsend (1929-34) died on 12th August, 2003, in his eighty-eighth year. He was in the athletics team and played tennis and golf – when captaining scratch cricket XIs he would encourage his fielders on the boundary to use bicycles! After school he took a course in law and accountancy and became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. When war intervened, he enlisted in an A.A. Regiment. On recovering from a serious accident with them, he was commi...

Robert S. Millar (1935)

20th April 2006

Robert Stanley Millar (1930-35) died on 20th April, 2006, in his 90th year. After leaving school he spent a couple of years travelling round the world (working in Australia and Canada) meeting many people who were to become life-long friends. His working life was spent farming in Perthshire then Peeblesshire. He and his wife Kitty retired to Earlsferry in 1980 where he continued to live a full life, enjoying regular rounds of golf. He was an avid supporter of LSM’s progre...

Ian Macalister (1935)

17th December 2005

Dr Ian Macalister (1927-35), who died on 17th December, 2005, was a prefect and in the Hockey XI. He graduated MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh and served in Italy and Greece during the War as a Major in the RAMC. He worked as a GP in Hawick. He is survived by his OL sons Robert (1961) and Bruce (1965).

Ian D. Paterson (1934)

23rd January 2004

Ian Douglas Paterson (1930-34) died on 23rd January, 2004. He read medicine at the University of Edinburgh where he was Kitchener Scholar and graduated MB, ChB. He was in the university fives team. During the War he served in the RAMC in Flanders and North West Europe and was Mentioned in Despatches. He worked as a GP and as EMO for the Department of Health and Social Services. He was a director of the Free Trade Wharf Management Committee in London, where he lived.

Theodore B. Binns (1935)

31st May 2011

Dr Theodore (Terry) Barker Binns, FRCP Edin (1930-35) died on 31st May, 2011, in his 95th year. He was a prefect, Editor of the Lorettonian, Captain of Cricket and Fives and in the Hockey XI. He served during the war as a Squadron Leader in Malta and Italy. Specialising in Clinical Pharmacology, he was Medical Director of CIBA Laboratories in Horsham and Senior Lecturer in the Pharmacology and Therapeutics Department of the London Hospital Medical College. His medical qualif...

John B. Hirst (1936)

6th May 2009

John Brian Hirst (1930-36), who died at the age of 92 years on 6th May, 2009, was a prefect and in the boxing team. He served during WWII as a Major in the Royal Artillery in France, Tunisia and Italy; he was awarded the M.B.E. and was Mentioned in Despatches; he was later awarded the T.D. He worked as a wool merchant in Yorkshire, becoming Managing Director of J.B. Hirst (Bradford) Ltd until 1965. He then became an Executive Officer in the Civil Service, retiring in 1976....

Louis G.S. Sanderson (1935)

17th February 2007

Lt Colonel Louis G S Sanderson OBE, MC & Bar (1927-35) died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 90 years on 17th February, 2007. Serving with the Kings Own Scottish Borderers in the Second World War, he was awarded his first M.C. for an action in Termoli in East Italy in October, 1943, and a bar to this in Falaise, Normandy in August, 1944. He was born in the Argentine, and at Loretto was a prefect, Captain of Shooting and in the XV, Cricket XI, and fives and athletics te...

Charles G. Sherriff (1935)

2nd December 2003

Major Charles Gordon Sherriff, D.S.O. (1931-35) who died on 2nd December, 2003, at the age of 86, was a prefect and in the XV, Cricket XI and Fives Team. He played for the Scottish Schoolboys XV and the Scottish Under 21 XV. He was commissioned into the K.O.S.B. in 1937, joining the 1st Battalion in Portsmouth where he made his mark in the rugger team at centre (alongside Terry Coverdale and Hugh Gillies) and in athletics and golf. He commanded a Carrier Platoon in France...

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