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Ralph A. Cadzow (1940)
30th March 2012
Ralph Alastair Cadzow (1936-40) died on 30th March, 2012, at the age of 89 years. He farmed in Northumberland and Argyll and along with his brothers introduced and developed the Luing breed of cattle. They received the Massey Ferguson Award for service to Agriculture 1972 as a result and in 2000 they were presented with the Sir William Young award by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland for ‘outstanding service to livestock breeding’. He played for the Nor...
Michael D.B. Daly (1941)
1st March 2002
Professor Michael de Burgh Daly M.A., M.D., Sc.D., F.R.C.P. (1933-41) died suddenly on 1st March, 2002. From Loretto he went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and after working as House-physician at St. Barts Hospital became lecturer in Physiology at University College, London. He held a Rockefeller Foundation Travelling Scholarship and a Locke Research Fellowship of the Royal Society before becoming Professor of Physiology at St. Barts Hospital Medical College. ...
Alastair K. Warren (1940)
25th March 2006
Alastair Kennedy Warren (1936-40) who died on 25th March, 2006, was a prefect and in the XV and athletics team. He graduated from the University of Glasgow and worked as a journalist, becoming Editor of The Glasgow Herald from 1965-74 and of The Dumfries and Galloway Standard from 1976-1986. During the war he served as a Major in the HLI in Sicily, Italy, NW Europe and Palestine and later served with the 5th/6th Battalion HLI (TA), being awarded the Territorial Decoration. ...
John H. Allix (1940)
10th July 2009
John Hereward (Herry) Allix (1936-40) who was born in 1922, died on 10th July, 2009. He was a prefect, Captain of Boxing and in the athletics team. Expecting to go to university as a young man, his hopes of furthering his education were cut short by WW2. He served in the RAF as a pilot in Coastal Command over the Atlantic, the North Sea and the D-Day invasion and later flew for the Royal Navy on (and off) aircraft carriers, discovering a passion for flying that lasted his lif...
John W. Arthur (1941)
25th January 2006
Major John (Jo) William Arthur MC (1936-41), Glasgow businessman and veteran of the Burma campaign, has died aged 83. His brother David (1948) writes: “Jo was born in 1922 in Kenya, where his father was a medical missionary working in Kikuyu. He returned to Glasgow aged 8 in 1930, going first to Glasgow Academy, then to St Ninians in Moffat and finally to Loretto where he was Head of School and in the XV. He left Loretto in 1941 to go out to OCTU in India and was commissione...
Charles C. Campbell (1942)
26th December 2008
Charles Colin Campbell (1937-42) who died on 26th December 2008, at the age of 85 years, was a prefect and in the XI. He joined the army from school and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers early in 1943 . He was posted to Nigeria, training West African troops as engineers. In the autumn of 1944 he was sent to Burma with reinforcements for the 81st West African Division. He saw just over six months active service against the Japanese as an engineer, building airstrip...
Douglas C. Cockburn (1941)
8th August 2003
Dr. Douglas Clement Cockburn (1936-41) died on 8th August, 2003. Following a first degree at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he completed his M.B., Ch.B. at the University of Edinburgh, where he played golf for the university. His National Service was in the R.A.M.C. with the 2nd Regiment, Scots Guards, in Malaya. He worked as a General Practitioner in Grantown-on-Spey for 32 years and retired to Fife. He served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Morayshire. He is survived...
Ian King (1941)
2nd September 2002
Ian King (1932-41), who died on 2nd September, 2002, at Stoke Mandeville, was a prefect and a member of the XV and cricket, hockey and fives teams. During the war he served in the R.N.V.R. in the Channel and Mediterranean. He gained three Rugby Caps for England in 1954. He worked for the Forestry Commission at Keilder in Northumberland and later for Vauxhall Motors. He is survived by his third wife, daughter Maxine, and son Graham.
Hector Laing (1941)
21st June 2010
Lord Laing of Dunphail (Hector Laing) (1933-41), Chairman and Life President of United Biscuits, Treasurer of the Conservative Party and philanthropist, died on 21st June 2010, aged 87. From Loretto he went up to Jesus College, Cambridge, reading Agriculture for one year before being commissioned into the 3rd Bn, the Scots Guards – fellow subalterns included Robert Runcie (who became Archbishop of Canterbury) and Willie Whitelaw, as well as a future chairman of Scottish & Ne...
John M. Lyle (1941)
19th January 2001
John Mann Lyle (1936-41) died on 19th January, 2001. He graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford. He was a director of John Lyle & Co Ltd, carpet manufacturers and Managing Director of Maclure Macdonald Ltd, the Glasgow printing firm. During the war he served as a Captain in the Royal Signals in France and Germany. From 1953-57 he was Joint Secretary of the West of Scotland Branch of The Lorettonian Society.
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