Longest-ordained minister dies aged 103

A VETERAN cleric who last year was recognised as the longest-ordained minister of the Church of Scotland since the Reformation has died a few weeks short of his 104th birthday.

The Rev Tom Donn, who was ordained in Stornoway in 1932, died in a nursing home in Inverness.

On 2 May last year, he broke the previous record set by the Rev Alexander Rae Grant, former minister of West Cults, Aberdeen, who was ordained on 20 November, 1923, and who died, aged 104, in 2001. Mr Donn, who was from Govan, was educated at Glasgow’s Bellahouston Academy, Glasgow University and Trinity College, Glasgow.