Obituary

Lena Martell, pictured here in 1968, was described as ‘Scotland’s Shirley Bassey’ (Picture: Powell/Daily Express/Getty Images)

Obituary: Lena Martell, chart-topping singer and entertainer

James Desmond Buxton was Scotland correspondent for the FT during a historic period

Obituary; James Desmond Buxton, business journalist and foreign correspondent

Gordon Brown decribed John Wilson as the Treasury’s ‘resident philosopher’

Obituary: John Wilson, political thinker and social policy advisor

Robin Keay oversaw seismic changes from the ‘hot metal’ era to the advent of computers

Obituary: Robin Keay, Perthshire Advertiser editor for 32 years

Sir Ian Wood helmed one of the world’s foremost international engineering contractors (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Obituary: Sir Ian Wood, businessman and philanthropist

Ken McCurrach played in several bagpipe bands, and took part in the 2012 World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow

Obituary: Ken McCurrach, Scottish rugby player picked to play for Australia

Colin Stove was a gifted experimenter and hardware developer

Obituaries: Dr George Colin Stove, radar pioneer, inventor and experimenter

Christine Borland’s works works are in public collections all over the world (Picture: Phil Wilkinson)

Obituary: Christine Borland, influential Turner Prize-nominated Scottish artist

Sir Jack Stewart-Clark was a member of the European Parliament for 20 years

Obituary: Sir Jack Stewart-Clark, politician and businessman

Ken Smith was capped 18 times for Scotland and played 17 games on the 1959 Lions tour

Obituary: Ken Smith CBE, Scotland international and former SRU President

Rachel Craig loved foreign travel and quality fast cars

Obituary: Rachel Craig, inspirational Scottish teacher

Bob Noble helped the farming community cope with 2001’s foot-and-mouth crisis

Obituary: Bob Noble, stalwart of Scottish farming and accomplished musician

Robert Morse pictured at the season six premiere of the drama series Mad Men in Los Angeles in 2013

Obituary: Robert Morse, two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway star and Mad Men ac...

Stephen O'Rourke's career at the Bar covered all parts of the civil and criminal law

Obituary: Stephen O'Rourke, Principal Crown Counsel and Keeper of the Advocates ...

Iain Chalmers pictured in 2009 on Stac Pollaidh ridge in the northwest Highlands

Obituary: Iain Chalmers, Land Agent and agricultural arbiter

Betty Davis’s influence can be seen in subsequent generations of upfront female artistes (Picture: Robert Brenner courtesy of Native Voice Films)

Obituary: Betty Davis, flamboyant funk singer famed for raucous performances

Hamish Menzies

Obituary: Hamish Menzies, prize-winning conductor of Dingwall Gaelic Choir for 3...

Jane Powell danced with Fred Astaire and starred in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Obituary: Jane Powell, 'girl next door’ film star from the golden age of musical...

Manus McGuire was ‘a fighter for working people and justice’

Obituary: Manus McGuire, Campaigning lawyer and founding partner of Thompsons S...

Stuartn Damon (left) met real-life criminal Alfred George Hinds while playing Houdini in Man of Magic

Obituary: Stuart Damon, star of cult classic classic The Champions and top US so...

Peter George Gow spent time living with the indigenous Peruvian Amazonian Piro people

Obituary: Peter Gow, world-renowned anthropologist and Amazonianist

William Scott McCulloch worked in local government for 50 years

Obituary: William McCulloch, Scot awarded Military Cross and Légion d’honneur

Simon Fildes spent over three decades as an active member of the dance community

Obituary: Simon Fildes, dance filmmaker, artist, curator, teacher and producer

Monte Hellman in 2010 (Picture: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images)

Obituary: Monte Hellman, US film director who worked with Jack Nicholson

Sandy Veitch as a young man

Obituary: Alexander ‘Sandy’ Veitch, Scottish marine engineer

Paul Ritter attends a Friday Night Dinner photocall in March 2020 (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Obituary: Paul Ritter, British actor best known for Friday Night Dinner and Vera

Ian Findlay had a passion for the Great Outdoors

Obituary: Ian Findlay CBE, Scottish ecologist and outdoor enthusiast

Stefan Kay

Obituary: Dr Stefan Kay OBE, Scottish businessman and railway preservationist

Yaphet Kotto and third wife Tessie Sinahon at the Black American Cinema Society Awards in 1997

Obituary: Yaphet Kotto, US actor who made big impact in Live and Let Die

Ranald Macdonell of Glengarry lived in England but rarely missed a Clan event

Obituary: Ranald MacDonell of Glengarry, Clan chief

The young Bill Black pictured at Helensburgh outdoor swimming pool

Obituary: Bill Black, internationally respected Scottish swimming official

Prof Alex Forrester

Obituary: Alex Forrester, footballer turned Aberdeen University Vice-Principal

Raymond Miquel, then chairman of Lees' the confectioner, at its Coatbridge factory

Obituary: Raymond Miquel CBE, businessman who saved Ryder Cup

Christopher Plummer collecting the Best Supporting Actor Award for Beginners in 2012

Obituary: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor best known for The Sound of Music

Frank Wright shared his time and expertiese freely with students, colleagues and friends

Obituary: Frank Wright, Scottish pioneer in computational biology techniques

John Webster during the Second World War

Obituary: John Webster, Scottish mechanic, soldier and daredevil

Albert Roux was a lover of the Scottish Highlands

Obituary: Albert Roux, trailblazer for gastronomy in the UK

Lockhart Frain-Bell was a talented painter and sailor

Obituary: Lockhart Frain-Bell, Consultant Radiologist and Burma Campaign veteran

Loren Hufstetler on his Penny Farthing

Obituary: Loren Hufstetler, engineer, businessman and philanthropist

Akki Manson was a champion of agricultural cooperation

Obituary: Akki Manson, Scots farmer who championed agricultural cooperation

Keen skier Jim Currie at Zermatt in Switzerland

Obituary: Jim Currie, engineer and skier

Prof Colin Davidson

Obituary: Colin Davidson, professor of electrical engineering
Colin William Davidson, Emeritus Professor. Born: 1934 in Edinburgh. Died: October 8 2020 in Ardfern, Argyll

Margaret Salter once hitched a ride on a Lancaster bomber

Obituary: Margaret Salter, Scottish child development expert

The Rev. Alistair Gerald Crichton McGregor QC
15 th October 1937 to 13 th June 2020

An Appreciation

I first met Alistair McGregor in the 1970s when he was Junior Counsel for the
objectors at a long-running public enquiry in Portkill and I was an apprentice
solicitor, dispatched to cover the enquiry. Alistair's cross-examination of the
witnesses revealed a sharp, forensic mind clothed in a self-deprecating good humour
which made him a hugely effective advocate: I knew, instantly, that this was the
person to whom I wanted to devil, and so there began not only a professional
relationship, but a true friendship which lasted until his death on 13 th June this year.

Obituary: the Rev Alistair McGregor QC, lawyer turned churchman

Henrietta Fergusson's love of life was legendary

Obituary: Henrietta Fergusson, award-winning Scottish hotelier

Reggae legend Toots Hibbert has died at the age of 77. (Picture: Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

Obituary: Toots Hibbert, legendary Jamaican musician credited with coining the w...

Rod Slater

Obituary: Rod Slater, inspirational Scottish teacher

Iain Laughland (Picture: Iain Rutherford)

Obituary: Iain Laughland, former Scotland rugby captain and SRU president

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Obituary: Gerald Lincoln, award-winning endocrinologist and naturalist

Mary Howie

Obituary: Mary Howie, dedicated farmer who loved educating the next generation

Charlie Daniels perrforming in 2018 (Picture: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

Obituary: Charlie Daniels, US Country star known for Devil Went Down To Georgia

Magdalena Sagarzazu

Obituary: Magda Sagarzazu, Spaniard who became archivist of the Isle of Canna

Comedy legend Carl Reiner in 2003 (Picture: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Obituary: Carl Reiner, legendary US comedy writer, director and performer

Willy Wands
on the set of the 2016 remake of Whisky Galore (Pitcure: Graeme Hunter)

Obituary: Alan J ‘Willy’ Wands, Scottish film producer and production manager

Astrid Kirchherr posing next to one of her images of John Lennon.(Picture: Ulrich Perrey, DPA via AP, File)

Obituary: Astrid Kirchherr, photographer credited with shaping image of The Beat...

Lorraine Mulholland

Obituary: Lorraine Mulholland, teacher, singer and tireless worker for her local...

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