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George F. Adamson (1949)
17th April 2008
George Farquhar Adamson (1944-49) died in France on 17th April, 2008. After Loretto he went to Edinburgh University School of Medicine (where he gained a Half-Blue for rowing) and instead of becoming a doctor he went on to become a pilot in the Royal Air Force, but was later invalided out with tuberculosis. A successful career in the shipping industy followed as Managing Director of Seahorse Ship Management Ltd. in London and he was a life-long member of The Baltic Exchange. ...
Walter R. Alexander (1949)
19th September 2006
Walter Ronald (Ronnie) Alexander CBE (1944-49), who died on 19th September, 2006, in St Andrews, aged 75, was a prefect and Captain of Golf. He went up to Clare College, Cambridge with an Exhibition in Classics and played for the University Golf Team each year, winning all but one of his matches and being appointed Captain. Taking over from his father as Chairman and Managing Director of Walter Alexander plc in 1973, he shrewdly diversified from the company's original busin...
Robert G. Constable (1948)
16th March 2003
Robert George Constable (1944-1948) died on 16th March 2003. He was in XI and the Fives team. Following National Service in the Royal Artillery he decided to join his father and farm in Perthshire. In 1955 he married his wife Mary and they subsequently had four children, Jennifer, Neil, Nicola and John. Then in 1969 came the decision to move out of farming and into the Pheasant Farming business. This he ran very successfully until his retirement in 1985. After retirement f...
Henry J.(.) Bennett (1951)
2nd August 2013
Henry James Bennett, known as Hamish (1946-51) died in California on 2 August 2013 aged 81. DNH James (1951) writes: “At school he captained the Hockey XI and was in the XV, Cricket XI and Athletics and Fives teams. He went up to Balliol College, Oxford, graduating MA where he was in the University Hockey XI and Captain of the Contract Bridge Team: he also played for the Scottish Hockey XI. After National Service commissioned in the Royal Engineers and University, he worked f...
Ewen K. Cameron (1950)
14th April 2013
Ewen Kennedy Cameron W.S. (1946-50) died on 14th April, 2013. He graduated M.A., LLB from the University of Edinburgh. He became a W.S. and a Partner of Dundas & Wilson, C.S. (formerly Davidson & Syme, W.S.) in Edinburgh. He was Treasurer of the Society of Writers to the Signet from 1985-93 and much enjoyed travelling all over the world to meetings of the International Bar Association. He was a very keen golfer - at Dornoch, Muirfield and St Andrews – as well as Bruntsfield L...
James G.B. Gibson (1950)
7th October 2010
James Graham Bogle Gibson (1942-50), who died peacefully in his sleep at Conon Bridge on October 7th, 2010, was in the hockey XI. He worked in the oil industry for Mobil Oil as their Scottish Borders Representative (1956 -72). Later he became the representative of the National Trust for Scotland at Inverewe Gardens, Wester Ross, which included Corrieshalloch Gorge and Torridon. He was a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh from 1988-96 and an active member o...
Robert E. Lynn (1951)
18th April 2012
Robert Edmund Lynn (1942-51) died on 18th April, 2012. He worked in shipping with Ben Line Steamers Ltd. His OL brother Vaughan (1945) pre-deceased him.
Boris C.G. Wilenkin (1946)
1st January 2011
Boris Charles Gregory Wilenkin (Nippers: 1946-46) who has died (exact date unkown please contact Lorettonian Society if you know the date), went to Harrow after he left the Nippers and then to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Law and where he won a Cricket Blue. He worked for Unilever.
Henry L. Bullen (1950)
14th December 2006
Henry (Harry) Lees Bullen (1945-1950) died on 14th December 2006 following a short illness. He was a Prefect and a member of the Shooting Team. His National Service was spent with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1950-53 with whom he continued to serve until 1969 as a Major in the TA. He joined the family law firm JS Tindle and Bullen in South Shields in 1958 becoming a partner in 1964. After “retirement” in 1997 he became a consultant with Stanley J Potts in Sunderland wit...
Michael W.F. Jenkin (1950)
6th June 2008
Michael William Frewen Jenkin, F.C.I.I. (1946-50) died on 6th June, 2008. After graduating in PPE from Oxford University (Brasenose College), he worked for the Union Insurance Society of Canton Ltd. in Manila, Malaya, Hong Kong and Singapore. Later he worked for subsidiaries of Guardian Royal Exchange in Canada and the U.S.A. - latterly in the post of Senior Vice President (Planning) of G.R.E. America in New York and finally in London with G.R.E. London. He is survived by ...
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