Obituaries
Period
3rd October 2023
John Fawcus Somervail (1934–1943) died on 3rd October 2023 at the age of 97.
24th October 2023
Stephen Patrick Ashley (Jim) Barker (1959–1964) died on 24th October 2023, at the age of 77.
24th January 2024
David Michael Geoffrey Anderson (1960-1965) died on 24th January 2024. He passed away peacefully following a period in Borders General Hospital, Melrose.
11th November 2023
Hugh Edward Bicheno (1961–1966) died on 11th November 2023, aged 75, three days after suffering a stroke.
26th March 2023
Douglas Harry Williams (1969–1973) died on 26th March 2023, aged 67.
30th November 2023
Lord Darling of Roulanish (Alistair Maclean Darling) LLB, MP (1966–1971) died of cancer on 30th November 2023, just after his 70th Birthday.
8th October 2023
Alastair Neil Gunn (1951–1955) died on 8th October 2023.
7th May 2023
John Neilson Adam Marshall (1946–1954) passed away peacefully on 7th May 2023. He was Head Nipper and in the Hockey XI and Fives team. His National Service was as a 2/Lt in the Royal Artillery and he continued to serve as a Captain in the 260th (City of Glasgow) Regiment of the R.A. until 1960. He became Managing Director of Yardbrace Ltd in Hull which went on to introduce containerised transport to the world. He was also the Chairman of The Sailors Children’s Society in Hull...
7th May 2022
David Rae Craig (1946–1955), who died on 7th May 2022, was in the XV and athletics team. After service in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in the Middle East and Kenya, retiring in 1964 in the rank of Lieutenant, he farmed on the Isle of Shuna in Argyll. He is survived by his brother John (1952), nephews Angus (1982) and Charlie (1987), and his great niece Nea (2020). His brother Thomas (1957) predeceased him in 2003.
James Alexander (Sandy) Inverarity C.B.E., C.A., F.R.Ag.S. (1949–53) died in 2023. Very well known in the Scottish farming community, he farmed, among other things, raspberries and poultry in Tayside. He was a Past President of the N.F.U. of Scotland, a member of the Eggs Authority, a Governor of the East of Scotland College of Agriculture, a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council, on the Panel of Agricultural Arbiters, a member of the Governing Body of the Scottish Crop ...
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