Lorettonian Society

Francis (Frank) John Stewart TD (1931-36) died on 16th May, 2007, shortly after celebrating his 90th Birthday. He was a prefect and captain of both cricket and fives. He read Law at Trinity College, Oxford (where he was in the university fives team). During the War he served as a Lieutenant in the 1st Bn Lothian and Borders Yeomanry, RAC, in France, where he was taken prisoner of war. Whilst PoW, making use of books provided by the Red Cross, he passed his Scottish Law e...

James N. Carstairs (1935)

9th September 1999

James Nicholson Carstairs, T.D. (1931-35) who died on ******* (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date)was a Chartered Accountant who became Assistant Company Secretary of The Linen Thread Co. Ltd. (Lindustries Ltd.) in Glasgow and Company Secretary of The Scottish Heritable Trust plc from 1961-82. He saw War Service as a Captain in the Royal Signals in France, Ceylon, India, Assam and Burma. He served as a Town Councillor of Bearsden from ...

John D. Forman (1936)

24th February 2013

Sir (John) Denis Forman O.B.E. (1931-36), the former chairman of Granada Television, died on 24th February, aged 95.
He was born in Dumfriesshire in 1917, and lived at Craigielands, near Moffat. His father, Adam, was a clergyman and Loretto’s Chaplain from 1907-12. In Son of Adam (1990), Denis Forman wrote a highly entertaining memoir of his childhood there.
At Loretto, he was in the XV, the Athletics team (holding the Long Jump record) and Boxing team. He claimed to have b...

William G. Strang (1936)

2nd September 2004

William Guthrie Strang (1931-36). Guthrie, who died on 2nd September, 2004,at the age of 87, had been a prefect and a member of the XV and the athletics team at school. Having graduated in engineering from the University of Glasgow, he joined Barr and Stroud, the optical and scientific instrument manufacturers in Glasgow, where he remained all his working life, retiring, in his early 60s, as Chairman and Joint Managing Director. On several occasions he hosted a visit to the...

Willison Taylor (1931)

13th October 2006

Willison Taylor FRSA (Nippers: 1927-31) died on 13th October, 2006. After Loretto he went to Glasgow Academy and then to Glasgow School of Art, where he took Diplomas in Art and Sculpture and won the Guthrie Award. During the war he served in the RASC. He taught Art in Morayshire, Melbourne and Girvan Academy. He was Chairman of the Glasgow Unity Theatre.

Walter E.S. Bain (1936)

28th October 2007

Walter Edward Spencer Bain FRCS(1931-36) died on 28 October 2007 aged 89. He graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University (Jesus College) in 1939 Whilst at Jesus he was cox of the boat which was head of the river in 1939 and had a trial for the Blue boat. He was also an accomplished boxer and won colours for the sport. He continued his medical training at Guy’s, graduating M.B., B.Chir. During the war he was a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Rese...

Terence G. Coverdale (1936)

3rd August 2002

Lt-Colonel Terence (Terry) Gilbert Coverdale, M.B.E. (1931-36) died on 3rd August, 2002. At Loretto he was a prefect and member of the XV, Cricket XI, Hockey XI, the fives and boxing teams and was Captain of Fencing. At RMA Sandhurst he became a Junior Under Officer, played for the XV and was commissioned into the K.O.S.B. in January 1938. After only three years as Platoon Commander he was a captain and adjutant of the 1st Battalion at the retreat from Dunkirk. Having bee...

Antony H. Dickinson (1920)

12th September 2002

Antony Havergal Dickinson (1915-20) died in September in his 101st year. Although his parents had been advised to send him to a school for delicate children, he was sent to Loretto on a ‘kill or cure’ basis. On his 100th Birthday he recollected his early days in the school – including being made to fight another boy (Neville Walker of Seaton Carew) by his head of room! – some of the letters he wrote home at this time still exist. On leaving Loretto he went up to Pembroke ...

Ramsay N. Traquair (1927)

1st January 1998

Dr. Ramsay Nairn Traquair (1917-27) died in 1998 (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date) He went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences and completed his medical training at the University of Edinburgh. During the war he served as a Major in the RA.M.C. on the Gold Coast. He worked as an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride.

Robert (.) . Orr (1924)

9th April 2006

Professor Robert (Robin) Kemsley Orr CBE, Hon D.Mus (Glas), Hon LL.D (Dundee), FRCM, FRSAMD, Hon RAM (1923-24) died on 9th April, 2006, at the age of 96. The doyen of Scottish composers, he wrote three operas, three symphonies and a considerable amount of Church music. He was the founding Chairman of Scottish Opera from 1962-76 and was Professor of Music at Cambridge University for ten years (the first Scot to hold the post). On leaving Loretto, he went to the Royal College...

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