Lorettonian Society

Henry (Harry) McKechnie TD (1925-29) died on 31st December 2005. He was Chairman and Managing Director of Henry McKechnie & Co, the Glasgow tea merchants. During the war he served with the 9th Battalion HLI (Glasgow Highlanders). He was sometime Chairman of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Branch of the Navy League and Sea Cadet Corps, and was President of The Grocers’ Company of Glasgow and The Weavers’ Society of Anderston and was Chairman of Bearsden Unionist Associati...

Ford I. Geddes (1931)

2nd October 2002

Ford Irvine Geddes M.B.E. (1922-31) who died on 2nd October, 2002, was a prefect and in the fencing team. From Loretto he went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and subsequently spent his working life in shipping, He entered the family business of Anderson, Green & Co., which managed the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, shortly before the war. War service as a Major (R.E.) was as A.D.C. and Military Advisor to Field Marshal Viscount Gort in Gibraltar, Malta and P...

Colin H. McVean (1930)

23rd August 2006

Lieutenant Colonel Colin Hector McVean MC, (1926-30) died on 23rd August, 2006, in his 94th year. He was in the shooting team at both Loretto and Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Indian Army (45th Rattray’s Sikhs) serving in Iraq, Syria, Persia, Arakan and Burma, being awarded the MC and a Mention in Despatches. As a Lt Colonel he commanded the 6th Madras Regiment. In 1941 he attended the staff college at Quetta and in 1947 transferred to the Royal Artillery in th...

Gordon A. Winter (1930)

1st August 2003

The Hon. Gordon Arnaud Winter O.C., LL.D. (1926-30) who was Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland from 1974-81, died on 1st August, 2003 at the age of 90. He was chairman of T & M Winter Ltd., President of the Standard Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and Member of the Advisory Board of the Newfoundland Savings Bank. He was also a Past Governor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and was Chairman of the Board of Regents of the Memorial University of Newfoundland, who awarded him a...

Patrick H. Dunn (1931)

17th June 2004

Air Marshal Sir Patrick Hunter Dunn K.B.E., C.B., D.F.C., R.A.F. (Retd), F.R.Ae.S. (1927-31) died on 17th June, 2004, at the age of 91 after a long illness. Paddy Dunn had a remarkable and distinguished career in the RAF, flying on many hazardous flights with Bomber Command during the war. His strong sense of duty, selfless leadership and ungrudging support of his men won him the respect of those whom he commanded and his seniors. He loved flying all his life, abandoning hi...

Henry P. Bell-Irving (1931)

21st September 2002

Brigadier the Honourable Henry Pybus (Budge) Bell-Irving DSO, OBE, DScM, LLD (1927-31), who died on 21st September, 2002, at the age of 89, was one of the most illustrious of Old Lorettonians and his death breaks a link with Loretto first forged by his father and five uncles who were at the school between 1900 and 1916. An obituary headline read: “He lived a life of service, honour and dedication and ‘gave it everything he had’ ”. His working life began at isolated salmon ...

Anthony J. Daly (1932)

25th June 2006

Anthony James Daly (1927-32) died on 25th June, 2006, at the age of 92. At Loretto he was a prefect, Editor of The Lorettonian and was in the XI, earning a mention in Wisden in 1933 for his exploits in a match against Fettes, (hitting a series of sixes in an unorthodox manner which did not please Dr Greenlees!). He read medicine at King’s College, Cambridge, graduating MA, MB, BCh (gaining a First in Psychology) and went to London Hospital on a Price Scholarship. At the ou...

Robert King-Clark (1932)

29th December 2007

Lt Colonel Robert (Rex) King-Clark (1927-32) MBE MC FRGS died on 29th December, 2007, at the age of 94. He was Captain of Fencing and in the XI. At Sandhurst he was a Fencing Blue and went on to win the Inter-Services Foil in 1933. In 1934 he was commissioned into the Manchester Regiment and spent six months in 1938 commanding one of Wingate’s Special Night Squads against Arab terrorists in Palestine: 50 years later he went to Israel as a guest of the Israeli Government an...

James T. Bannatyne (1932)

14th March 2007

Lt Col James Thurstan Bannatyne MBE, FSA (Scotland) (1927-32) died on 14th March, 2007. At Loretto he was a prefect and in the XV and the boxing team. Following the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, where he was Senior Under-Officer of the Champion Company and passed out second in his term, he joined the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He served with them at Aldershot and in Palestine and Egypt until 1937. A good athlete, he won the Middleweight bout boxing for the Arm...

Martin Ludlam (1932)

1st March 2006

Dr Martin Ludlam (1923-32) died in March 2006 (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date). He was in the hockey XI. He qualified MB, ChB from the University of Edinburgh and became a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, practising as a GP in Carlisle. During the war he served in the Friends Hospital, Itsari in India as Medical Superintendent. He is survived by four of his five children – Ailsa, Ronnie, Jenny and Ian

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