Lorettonian Society

Harvey Graham Mack (1932-41), who died on 30th May 2009, aged 86 years, was a great supporter of both the School and the Society. He was a prefect and Captain of Shooting. During the war he served in the Royal Engineers in North Africa and the Middle East then the Sudan Defence Force. Having qualified as an F.C.A., he became a senior partner with accountants Blease, Lloyd & Co. Most of his working life was involved with tugboats: he became Chairman and Managing Director o...

Fergus A.F. Mackenzie (1940)

20th February 2008

Dr Fergus Alastair Ferguson Mackenzie RN (Retd), OStJ (1936-40), who died on 20th February, 2008, was a prefect and in the XV and the athletics, swimming and boxing teams. He qualified MB ChB from the University of Glasgow and DMRD from the University of London, and later FFR and FRCR. He joined the Royal Navy and, on the Clyde Patrol, he served in HMS Frobisher, the RN Hospital at Simonstown, South Africa and RN Hospitals in Singapore and Malta. He worked at the Radiobiolo...

Allison M.C. Greenlees (1935)

17th March 2003

Allison Mary Campbell Greenlees O.B.E. (Nippers 1934-35), who died on 17th March, 2003, was the only daughter of Dr. Greenlees. After Loretto she attended St James’ School, West Malvern, before going up to Somerville College, Oxford, to read Modern History. She then took a Diploma in Social Science at the L.S.E. She was on the Social Studies staff of the University of Leeds from 1948-50, served in the W.R.A.C. (T.A.) from 1950-53 and worked in the War Office from 1951-53. ...

Michael B. Forman (1939)

15th March 2005

Michael Bertram Forman TD, (1935-39) who died on 15th March, 2005, was a prefect and a member of the athletics and boxing teams. His war service was as a Major in the KOSB at Arnhem, where he was taken POW, and later in India. He graduated from Manchester College of Technology and worked as Personnel Manger with Courtalds and the National Coal Board. He became a director of the Institute of Personnel Management and Director of Personnel and Administration of TI Group, from...

George A. Lean (1940)

10th August 2013

George Alastair Lean O.B.E., SL K, SVR, RI (1935-40), who died peacefully, in his 93rd year on 10th August, 2013, was Head of School, Editor of The Lorettonian, and in the shooting and boxing teams.
Whilst still at school, he enlisted in the R.A.F., despite having a place to read medicine at Cambridge. He qualified as an RAF air observation navigator and bomb aimer. On joining Coastal Command, he was posted to 204 Squadron in West Africa tasked with escorting convoys and pro...

Stuart L. Barclay (1940)

29th June 2007

Stuart Lothian Barclay MBE, FRIBA, FRIAS(1935-40) died on 29th June, 2007, as a result of an accident at home. He graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge, and practised as an architect in Glasgow as a partner in Lothian Barclay, Jarvis & Boys. During the war he served as a Captain in the Royal Engineers in India, Burma and Ceylon and with the RAPWI Mission in Sumatra. He was a Past Deacon of the Incorporation of Gardeners of Glasgow and Honorary President of RYA Sailabil...

John C. Billington (1940)

24th December 2004

John Colquhoun Billington (1935-40), died on 24th December 2004. He was a prefect and member of the fives and shooting teams. He went up to Trinity Hall Cambridge but joined the War effort in the Fleet Air Arm before completing his degree. He was invalided out and subsequently worked in horticulture and agriculture.

John M. Harper (1940)

16th March 2002

Dr. John Murray Harper (1935-40), who died on 16th March, 2002, was Captain of Cricket and Fives, and in the boxing and athletics teams. He graduated M.B., Ch.B. from the University of Glasgow and worked as a highly respected General Practitioner in Helensburgh until his retirement in 1992. He was a single-handicap golfer, a keen rugby and cricket enthusiast, and had a deep interest in painting – particularly the Scottish Colourists. His three OL brothers, Alex, Rob and Jim...

William M. McFarlan (1940)

22nd June 2003

William Menzies McFarlan M.C (1935-40) died on 22nd June 2003 in his 82nd year, sixty years after he was given up for dead during the Allied invasion of Sicily. Bill McFarlan and I first met as new boys at the beginning of the Autumn term in 1935. He was bigger than most of us and clearly he would be a useful ally in the uncharted waters which lay ahead. I decided that it would be a good idea to make friends with him and our friendship developed over the next five years and ...

Adam Calder (1933)

18th February 2010

Adam Calder (1926-33) died on 18th February, 2010, at the age of 94 years. He followed his brother to Loretto from St Mary’s, Melrose. Although he wasn’t enthusiastic about school he made many life-long friends among whom were Henry McCreath, Jock Campbell, Henry Robson and Alec Calder and he always followed the fortunes of the school rugby and cricket teams. After leaving school he worked on Marigold, the family farm near Duns and started playing cricket for Manderston with...

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