Lorettonian Society

William Jervis Alastair Livingstone of Bachuil, Chief of MacLea, Baron of the Bachuil, Coarb of St Moluag (1928-32) died on February 29th, 2008, at the age of 93. As The Bachuil (said to be the oldest title in the UK, dating back to the 6th Century) he was hereditary abbot and holder of the Bachuil Mor of Moluag: this staff is the symbol of authority of St Moluag and in each generation is passed on to a designated successor, or coarb. Like the rod of St Patrick of Armagh ...

Laurence R.N. Mackenzie (1933)

17th March 2004

Laurence Robert Nelson Mackenzie (1929-33) died on 17th March, 2004. He was in the XV and Athletics Team. After the Royal College of Science & Technology in Glasgow, he became a Director of John Lyle & Co. Ltd., in Glasgow. His War service was as a Major in the H.L.I. attached to the Nigerian Regiment in France and Burma. He was Chairman of the Glasgow Productivity Committee, Appeals Organiser for the Scottish National Council of the YMCA, a Councillor of Stirling Distri...

James C.S.A. Fleming (1932)

9th January 2008

James Colin Stuart Armour Fleming (1926-32) died peacefully after a short illness, on 9th January, 2008, in his 93rd year. During the War he was commissioned in 1941 and served in the Royal Artillery in the post of Instructor of Gunnery. He worked as a stockbroker with Penney, Easton & Co., becoming a joint Senior Partner. His love of skiing began in the earliest days of Scottish skiing in the ’30s and he was a regular at Davos and Murren before the war disrupted his early...

Bryan T.J. Vernon (1943)

6th August 2010

Bryan Tom Jackson Vernon (1939-43) died on 6th August 2010 following a stroke. He took a war-time Naval Short Course at St John's College, Cambridge, before joining the RNVR, attaining the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, and serving in Minesweepers in the North Sea, the Clyde, and the Far East from 1943-45. After the war he joined Spillers Ltd, the flour and feed millers becoming the Newcastle Manager and later the Southern Area Technical Manager until retirement in 1980. A sometime ...

Ronald J.C. Aitchison (1941)

21st December 2009

Ronald John Craigie Aitchison CBE, RA (1937-41), who died on 21st December, 2009, was an artist who conformed to no school or fashion. He trained as a lawyer for four years (but did not qualify) and enrolled at the Slade in 1952. In 1954 he exhibited as one of the Six Young Contemporaries and in 1955 he was awarded a British Council Scholarship to study in Italy. He earned critical esteem for his work - noted for the bright pastel-colour backgrounds which he favoured. He said...

Colin G.M. Gardner (1944)

23rd October 2003

Colin Guy Muir Gardner (1939-44) died on October 23rd 2003 after a long illness. His wartime service was in the Royal Navy, after which he trained at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He spent his life in the farming industry, working for BOCM first as Show Farms Manager, latterly directing one of their subsidiary companies and he was President of the Farmer's Club in 1988. He settled latterly at Nunburnhole, York. He leaves a son and a daughter and his OL broth...

Geoffrey C. Cairns (1944)

5th February 2009

Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Crerar Cairns CBE, AFC, FRAeS (1935-44) died on 5th February 2009, aged 82. He was a prefect, Captain of the XV, in the XI, Fives and Athletics teams. He went to the RAF College, Cranwell, where he was in the XV and XI, and later to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His flying career spanned the period from the Spitfire to the Tornado. Between 1947 and 1949 he served with No 43 Sqn flying Spitfires in Italy and Austria, No 73 Sqn in Malta and...

John (.) . Wotherspoon (1943)

29th June 2007

John Munro (Iain) Wotherspoon WS,TD (1936-43) died on 29th June, 2007, at the age of 82. He was a prefect, captained the XV and was in the shooting and boxing teams. On leaving school, he enlisted in the Royal Signals and two years later was commissioned into the Royal Signals 51 (H) Division, serving with the 51st Highland Division in Belgium and Germany before being posted to Burma where he served until 1946. He read law at Trinity College, Oxford, and took his LLB at th...

Eric A. Zoccola (1942)

5th July 2005

Eric Alastair Zoccola (1938-42) died on 5th July, 2005, in South Africa. During the war he served in the RAF in Western Europe and India.

Newton W. Apperley (1943)

1st January 2012

Newton Wynne Apperley (1938-43) is reported to have died in Brighton (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date). He served during the War as a Captain in the Mahratta Light Infantry.

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