Lorettonian Society

James Jeremy Stuart Armour Fleming (1952–61) died in July 2023. He was Head Nipper, a Prefect, and in the Cricket XI and Hockey XI. Having graduated BCom from the University of Edinburgh he worked in stockbroking, becoming Divisional Director of Capel Cure Sharp and a Member of the London Stock Exchange. Following his retirement, he became a Director of the Glasgow Nursing & Medical Relief Association. From 1967 to 1971 he was Secretary of the West of Scotland Branch of the L...

Kenneth F. Murray (1960)

8th May 2023

Kenneth Fenton Murray (1951–60) died on 8th May 2023. He went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read Economics, Architecture & Fine Arts and became Branch Manager of Sedgwick Personal Financial Management in Glasgow.

David J. Marshall (1942)

22nd December 2022

David James Marshall (1935–42) died at Erskine Home on 22nd December 2022 in his 100th year. Increasing blindness and frailty forced him to move there in 2021 from his home in Kilmacolm.

His father died when he was only two years old and his mother never remarried. His uncle E.N. (Ned) Marshall (1911), then a Governor of the School, suggested that David be sent to Loretto. He enjoyed sports and singing in Chapel and made many friends with whom he kept up long after leavin...

David A.B. Cunningham (1947)

David Alexander Biggar Cunningham (1943–47) died in January 2023. He was in the Cricket XI and graduated from the University of Edinburgh, where he was a member of the Golf Team. He later qualified as a C.A. His National Service was as a 2/Lt in the Royal Corps of Signals from 1955 to 1957. He became Financial Director of printer and publishers John Bartholomew & Son Ltd from 1960 to 1969 and Director and Compliance Officer of McInroy & Wood in Haddington from 1990 to 1996. H...

Peter H. Lapping (Hon)

Peter Herbert Lapping (Hon. 1967–79) died on 15th May 2023, aged 81 years, following a stroke on 10th May. He was born in Assam, India, where his father was working as a medical officer, was brought up in South Africa and educated at St John’s College in Johannesburg and the University of Natal, where in 1963 he was awarded a first-class BA Honours in History. Peter went on to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and in 1966 was awarded a BA and...

David A. Thin (1951)

24th February 2023

David Ainslie Thin (1946–51) died on 24th February 2023, aged 89 years. He was Captain of Shooting. His National Service was in the Royal Engineers, and he later graduated B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, where he played Hockey for the University and the East of Scotland. After training for some months at Blackwell’s in Oxford and Bristol he joined the booksellers James Thin at South Bridge in March 1958, working beside his redoubtable cousin Mr James (Jim...

Michael A. Holm (1949)

5th February 2023

Michael Andrew Holm (1945–49) died at home in Troon on 5th February 2023, at the age of 91 years. He was in the athletics, golf and shooting teams. After several years in an accountancy firm in Glasgow, Michael joined the White Horse Whisky Company, working in the Highlands and Islands and travelling widely in Europe. He married Morag Sloan in 1961 and became a director of MacEwan, Falconer & Co., provision importers in Glasgow, from which he retired in 1981. He then ran M & ...

David S. Preston (Hon)

1st November 2020

David Sykes Preston (Hon., Staff 1958 – 1974) died in November 2020 in Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 88 years. He graduated with a BSc from the University of Sheffield and an MA from the University of Cambridge. An excellent Mathematics teacher, he also turned his hand to Geography and Scripture. He coached Rugby Football and ran the Mountaineering Society, including administrating the ‘Grinds’. As a practising artist, he contributed a great deal to the cultural life of...

Kathleen Gourlay (Hon)

7th November 2022

Kathy Gourlay (Hon., Staff: 1993-2004) passed away peacefully in November 2022 aged 83. As School Secretary, she was the welcoming, wise and smiling face of the Loretto front office for over a decade. She brought her formidable practical and diplomatic skills to the headships of Norman Drummond (Hon.), Keith Budge (Hon.) and Michael Mavor (1965), never losing her cool or her sense of humour during a period of great change. The boundaries of her role as School Secretary exten...

Richard M. Cockburn (1958)

3rd September 2022

Richard Manners Cockburn (1954 – 58) who died on 3rd September, 2022, aged 81 years, after a bold but brief battle with CMM leukaemia, was a prefect. Brought up on an East Lothian farm, he became an accomplished point-to-point jockey after school, before joining the Fleet Air Arm as a Naval Officer, training in Dartmouth and later based in Malta, Lossiemouth and Linton-on-Ouse. Richard and his fellow officers became real-life Top Gun pilots and he refused to see the films, as...

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