Fund manager and chairman; Born: December 12, 1948; Died: June 13, 2013. Dr Kenneth Lyall, who has died age 64, after a year-long battle against cancer, was an economist and fund manager and the first employee taken on by Walter Scott & Partners Limited, the first Scottish “boutique” fund managers to specialise in global fund […]
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Elizabeth Mavor
Author and biographer; Born: December 17, 1927; Died: May 22, 2013. Elizabeth Osborne Mavor, who died last month aged 85, was an author and biographer whose work focused primarily on relationships between women. While her 1973 novel, A Green Equinox, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, she is possibly better known for her non-fiction work […]
Tony Trickett
Doctor and Lord-Lieutenant of Orkney; Born: February 16, 1940; Died: May 17, 2013. Dr Tony Trickett MBE, who died last weekend, served for almost three decades as GP for the residents of Hoy, Walls and Longhope, but his championing of the wider Orkney communities went far beyond their mere physical health. A longterm supporter of […]
Lord Reay
Politician and clan chief; Born: July 19, 1937; Died: May 10, 2013. The 14th Lord Reay, who has died aged 75, was a British politician who served in both the European Parliament and the House of Lords. As one of 92 elected hereditary peers to survive Tony Blair’s Parliamentary reforms in 1999, his death will […]
Stevie Duff
Basketball coach; Born: April 17, 1968; Died: May 29, 2012. Stevie Duff, who died suddenly last month, helped transform the state of basketball in Scotland, initially as an immensely talented player but more significantly as an inspirational coach and a pioneering sports development officer. His interest in, and talent for, the sport was clear from […]
Flight Lieutenant John Dow
Electrical engineer and war hero; Born: 1922; Died: May 14, 2012. John Dow, who died this month at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Dundee, was first and foremost a devoted husband, caring father and delightful grandfather. By profession he was an electrical engineer, but he was also a decorated member of Bomber Command. Born in […]
Derek Cameron
Cinema manager and chairman: Born 1934; Died August 7, 2011 Derek Cameron, who died this week, was not simply an astute businessman who ensured that Scotland’s last independent, family-run cinema survived and prospered when others did not. For generations of Edinburgh’s film lovers, he was literally the public face of the Dominion cinema itself, personally […]
