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FAMILY SUPPORT OF RESCUE TEAM CONTINUES

The Priory of Scotland of theThe Most Priory Venerable of Scotland Order of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of the Hospital of St John ofof JerusalemJerusalem

Hugh MacLeod of MacLeod, of Dunvegan Castle, Skye, followed in his father’s footsteps when he kindly presented the Skye Mountain Rescue Team with a vehicle on behalf of St John Scotland. Hugh handed over the vehicle, for which St John had contributed £20,000, on 12th October 2012. His late father, John MacLeod of MacLeod, presented the team’s previous St John-funded vehicle on 6th October 2001, the same day as he opened the team’s base at Glenbrittle, for which he had generously donated the land. The happy recipient of the keys on both occasions was Gerry Akroyd, the Team Leader.

Pro Fide – Pro Utilitate Hominum

The arms of the Priory with the mottoes of the Order The arms of the Priory with the mottoes of the Order St John Scotland improves the safety,St John health Scotland and qualityimproves of thelife of safety, health and quality of life of people in need. people in need. CONTENTS

The Prior’s Message 3

General Information 4

St John Scotland Projects 8

The Receiver General’s Report 26

Financial Report 29

Financial Information 30

Activities Report 32

Governance of the Order of St John 52

Governance of St John Scotland 53

Area Committees in St John Scotland 54

Roll of Order Members in the Priory of Scotland 58

In Grateful Memory 80

THE CHANCERY OF THE PRIORY OF SCOTLAND ST JOHN’S HOUSE, 21 ST JOHN STREET EDINBURGH EH8 8DG

Scottish Charity SC000262

Telephone: 0131 556 8711 E-mail: [email protected] Website:www.stjohnscotland.org.uk Order Website:www.orderofstjohn.org THE PRIOR’S MESSAGE

2013 has seen a great deal of activity in the Priory Office and throughout the areas. Two projects which I mentioned last year have been successfully concluded and very well received. The Neo-Natal Ambulance was commissioned and is already in use, and the review of our governance arrangements was concluded and accepted by Chapter.

Chapter took time to review the Priory’s Strategy and we have set targets for 2020 which will show that we are one of the best lifesaving and life enhancing charities in Scotland. Our goals are high but I know that they are achievable, given the support which Sir Malcolm we enjoy across Scotland. The next step will be to spread this message throughout the areas so that we can be confident that our management procedures conform with best practice for charities.

On the world stage we continue to provide generous support to the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem and to St John Malawi.

We work closely with the Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland and the teams across Scotland. A new base in Blairgowrie has been provided for the Tayside Mountain Rescue Team and a further four teams have received a grant of £20,000 towards a new vehicle. A new dimension to the Order in UK has been the creation, in conjunction with the NHS, of an award for organ donation. I attended the first ceremony in St James Palace where the Grand Prior and the Duchess of Gloucester were present. It was a remarkable event where the relatives of the donors demonstrated enormous pride in their loved ones. We are organising a similar event for the families of Scottish based donors in Edinburgh at the beginning of December in conjunction with NHSBT.

St John Dumfries and Galloway, together with our Headquarters Team organised a very happy and successful festival in Dumfries which all those present greatly enjoyed.

The year has included the departure of Richard Waller – a Trustee and Chief Executive Officer, I would like to pay tribute to him for his hard work during the past 17 years and to thank him for all that he achieved for the Priory.

The future is exciting and I hope that all those who read this yearbook will join me to expand our work, create new activities and forge ahead towards our goals for 2020.

I wish you all success in the coming year.

Her Majesty The Queen Sir Malcolm Ross GCVO OBE Sovereign Head of the Order of St John

2 3 THE ORDER OF ST JOHN - HISTORICAL BACKGROUND needs brought about by developments such as the creation and evolution of the National Health Service. In recent times, the Priory has extended its support to mountain rescue teams The origins of the Order of St John can be traced to an 11th century hospital - the Hospital in Scotland through the provision of vehicles and bases, and has funded minibuses for other of St John in Jerusalem. In 1113 the people who administered this hospital were formed needy organisations. into a religious Order. Soon after, they took on military duties and became known as Knights Hospitallers. Facilities provided include a palliative care unit, patient transport, sheltered residential accommodation and, most recently, a First Responder service. Also, help is given to many That Order, which exists today, is now commonly called the Order of Malta. It recruited local initiatives which provide services and supplies for people of all ages who are ill, disabled, members and owned property throughout Western Europe. The Order’s principal property infirm or in danger. The Priory has always supported the Order’s hospital in Jerusalem and in Scotland was at Torphichen, in West Lothian. Being Roman Catholic, the Order ceased to currently sponsors its Medical Director. Additionally, help is given to St John Associations in function in the British Isles at the time of the Reformation. developing countries, especially Malawi.

In the first half of the 19th century a group of people set out to revive the Order of Malta in OBJECTS the United Kingdom but ultimately formed themselves into a separate organisation which The objects of the Order in Scotland include: they called the Order of St John. In 1877 they founded the St John Ambulance Association, • the encouragement of all that makes for the spiritual and moral strengthening of mankind; whose role was to provide training in first aid and similar activities. Ten years later the St John • the encouragement and promotion of all work of humanity and charity for the relief of Ambulance Brigade was created, as a uniformed body of trained volunteers to provide first aid people in sickness, distress, suffering or danger; cover for the public. In 1968 it was decided to merge the Ambulance Association and Brigade • the provision of assistance to the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem and its clinics and into “St John Ambulance”, to allow closer co-ordination of the two roles of training and public research projects; duty. • the provision and maintenance of nursing homes, sheltered housing, hospices and rest and residential homes in Scotland; In 1882, as a further means of providing to those in need and recognising its origins, the Order • the provision of a library. opened a hospital in Jerusalem. This was to treat eye disease, prevalent in the Middle East. (At that time, Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.) GOVERNANCE OF THE PRIORY The Priory of Scotland is governed under the Royal Charters, Statutes and Regulations of the In 1888, Queen Victoria made the Order a Royal Order of Chivalry with the monarch as its Order, and the Rules of the Priory of Scotland. Copies of these are available from the Chancery. Sovereign Head. Since then the Grand Prior has always been a member of the Royal Family. Those in management or control of the Priory are the Prior and members of the Priory Chapter, Today the Order of St John functions throughout the United Kingdom, in many other listed on page 53. The Priory is administered from the Chancery, St John’s House, at 21 St Commonwealth countries, in the United States of America and at the hospital in Jerusalem. John Street, Edinburgh. The work of the Order throughout Scotland is assisted by 12 area committees. THE ORDER IN SCOTLAND In its early years, the Order provided training in first aid and related subjects in Scotland, as MEMBERSHIP in other parts of the United Kingdom. However, the Scottish-based St Andrew’s Ambulance The Priory of Scotland Association was formed later and began similar activities, both in Scotland and England. Anyone giving significant support to the Priory of Scotland may become a member of it. In1908 it was agreed that the association would cease first aid training south of the border and Area committees maintain rolls of Priory Members within their area. the Order north of it. In the 1940s, some of its members felt there was scope for the Order to Readers new to St John who are interested in becoming members of the Priory of Scotland undertake a variety of public services in Scotland. In 1947, the Scottish Priory of the Order was should approach their area contact (see pages 49-51). formed and since then, from a standing start, it has achieved remarkable success in meeting a wide diversity of need. Over the years the Priory has responded to changes to some of these

4 5 MEMBERSHIP (continued) Initials and Insignia The Order of St John The preceding abbreviations may be used in connection with the work of the Order and in Membership of the Order (as an Order of Chivalry) is conferred in recognition of work done in biographical references. The abbreviations, when used as post-nominal letters, come after furthering its objects. Recommendations for admission to, or promotion in, the Order may be those of the other British Orders and crosses for bravery, e.g. Donald MacDonald Esq MBE MC made by the chairmen of the area committees and by Grade I or II members. Recommendations KStJ. Order insignia take the same precedence. Notes on the wearing of insignia are available which survive intensive scrutiny are eventually submitted to Her Majesty The Queen for on request from the Chancery. Members might also wish to note that any insignia no longer approval. New and promoted members are invested with their insignia at the Festival of St required, e.g. through promotion, may be sent to the Chancery where it can be used to the John held annually in Scotland on or about 24th June (St John Baptist Day). benefit of the Priory. The Roll of Members of the Order in the Priory of Scotland is maintained in the Chancery. A member may request a copy of his or her recorded particulars at any time. Limited information THE CHANCERY AND ITS STAFF is supplied to office bearers in connection with Order business, but not to any other person The Chancery, or headquarters, of the Priory of Scotland is at St John’s House, Edinburgh. or body. The Administrator is Audrey Leighton, and the Accountant, Janet Knox. The headquarters are usually manned during normal office hours, but Audrey is generally not present on a Friday. Grades of the Order Under its Sovereign Head, Her Majesty The Queen, the Order has six grades: LIBRARY I Dames & Bailiffs Grand Cross GCStJ The library of the Priory of Scotland is contained within St John’s House. It is a fascinating II Dames & Knights (of Grace or of Justice) DStJ & KStJ collection of books, documents, photographs and objects concerned with the Order from its III Commanders, *Chaplains CStJ, ChStJ origins to the present day. Together these form a rich source of information for research or IV Officers, *Sub-Chaplains OStJ, SubChStJ general interest. Visitors to the library are welcome and are requested to make arrangements V Members, *Assistant Chaplains MStJ, AsstChStJ with the Administrator, on 0131 556 8711. VI Esquires EsqStJ * Clerical grades are being phased out from 1 January 2004. Those holding them before then TORPHICHEN PRECEPTORY may continue to use them until promoted. The first property in Scotland of the pre-Reformation Order was established at Torphichen in West Lothian. Acquired during the reign of David I, King of Scots (1124 – 1153), it became, Foundation Dues and Oblations and remained until the 16th century, the Order’s administrative centre in Scotland. It was also To carry out its charitable works, the Order depends to a great extent on contributions from a hospital and a place of worship. It held the right of sanctuary and the large stones marking its members, and funds raised from the public. Order members are relied upon for two set the sanctuary boundary can still be seen. The tower and transepts of the Preceptory building contributions: Foundation Dues, payable on admission to, and promotion within, the Order; remain and the property is under the stewardship of Historic Scotland. With the help of and Annual Oblations,payable yearly on a scale related to grade within the Order. The rates volunteers organised by St John West Lothian members, the Preceptory is open to the public from 1st January 2013 are: over weekends and bank holidays from 1st April to 30th September between 1pm and 5pm. New volunteers would be welcome and should ring the St John West Lothian Secretary, Stuart Grade Foundation Annual Learmonth, on 07887 778881 or [email protected]. The pretty village of Torphichen lies in Dues (£) Oblations (£) attractive countryside 20 miles due west of Edinburgh, one mile on the B792 from the A706. I GCStJ 580 125 II DStJ & KStJ 300 95 III CStJ, ChStJ 195 65 IV OStJ, SubChStJ 100 50 V MStJ, AsstChStJ 70 40 VI EsqStJ - 30 6 7 EYE HOSPITAL REPORT This year has seen many records broken, with more patients being seen than at any time in our history. 2012 saw more that 111,000 patients treated in our clinics, a 4% increase on the previous year and almost double the number treated in 2006. However, as the demand on our services and expertise grows, so too does the increased need for charitable funds. The charity’s income in 2012 reached £8.2 million, compared with £7.6 million in 2011; £5 million of this came from charitable sources. We are so grateful to everyone who has given so generously but we would like to thank in particular our friends in St John Priories who raised an impressive £1.5 million, without which our ability to treat those we seek to serve would have been severely compromised.

Nicholas Wolf, BSc (Econ), FCA, CTA (Fellow) – Chairman. OVERSEAS PROJECTS OVERSEAS

ST JOHN EYE HOSPITAL, JERUSALEM The St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem is supported by many elements of the Order worldwide. It is open to all races and religions but principally serves the Palestinian population, which is still subject to severe restrictions on employment and movement, imposed by the Israeli government. The hospital has widened into a group of facilities, in East Jerusalem, Hebron and Gaza. Mobile Outreach Clinics were introduced in 1982 and there are currently two of these and with the New CEO Appointed Early in 2013 Rod Bull, Chief Executive of the St John Eye Hospital stood down after six years, opening of the Anabta Centre in 2007, the group became able to reach almost all of the West during which the organisation has flourished. He will remain as a trustee on the Board and Bank towns, villages and refugee camps. Demand for treatment has grown steadily, with a 4% has been replaced as CEO by Brigadier Tom Ogilvie-Graham, a veteran of operations in both increase during 2012 alone. Bosnia and Iraq. The hospital is renowned for its teaching and a key priority is to train the next generation of A serving soldier for 30 years, Brigadier Ogilvie-Graham spent time as an intelligence officer local doctors and nurses. Valuable research and development is also conducted. The hospital attached to the Parachute Regiment and also served with the Army Medical Services, ending his is supporting Vision 2020, aiming to eliminate avoidable blindness and introduce further career as an ADC to HM The Queen. He has been actively involved in a number of humanitarian affordable eye care programmes. projects, in Kuwait after the Gulf War, in Bosnia following the Balkans conflict and in various St John Scotland has always helped the eye hospital. It has been sponsoring the Medical parts of Africa, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Further details are on www.stjohneyehospital.org Director for a number of years and continues to help fund the library. It has previously contributed to the Patient Relief and Gaza Appeal funds and funded the specialist training for three of the staff’s Palestinian doctors, who have gone on to become Consultants.. In 2012 it made a major contribution to the £1.5 million donated by Priories worldwide, and the very latest figures show that between January and May 2013, Scotland contributed £55,500 to a total of £311,000 donated by Priories in Britain.

Khaled Daoud, the Librarian Dr Jeanne Garth, Nicholas Woolf, Tom Ogilvie-Graham CEO the Medical Director the Order Hospitaller

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ST JOHN MALAWI PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROJECT THE ST JOHN HOME-BASED CARE PROGRAMME

As well as the eight Priories, there are 33 national St John Associations, many of them in The Home-Based Care programme has been benefiting communities in southern Africa since developing countries. As stronger members of the St John family, the Priories support the 2004, under the leadership of St John South Africa, whose initiative it was. The programme work of the more needy St John Associations, through sending money, supplies, trainers or provides health education, especially related to childhood illnesses, and trains people in how advisers. St John Scotland has developed links with St John Malawi in this regard. to look after a seriously ill person in their own home.

Malawi is near the bottom of the UN Human Development Index, which reflects factors such Sadly, the ravages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic means that many of those needing care are as life expectancy and infant mortality, and it ranks lower than any other country bar one in terminally ill, and that all too often the caring within a community falls to children or the which St John operates. In addition to first aid training and support, St John Malawi runs a elderly. Primary Health Care Project. The programme was launched with the help of an appeal by His Royal Highness The Duke Begun in 1988, the project helps prevent illness through education and immunisation, with of Gloucester and St John Scotland members generously contributed over £23,000. Further particular emphasis on the health of young children. The volunteer Community Health Workers contributions since then have totalled £25,000. also provide other medicines and training in the home-based care of seriously ill people. They work in the most densely populated townships of Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre, The programme was designed to benefit South Africa and the other 10 southern African where living conditions are very poor. In 2012, volunteers reached 11,241 people (11,805 in countries with a St John establishment. It has been successfully implemented in Malawi, 2011) during 5,728 house visits (5659 in 2011) and conducted 3,931 health education sessions complementing the Primary Health Care Project which is supported by St John Scotland. (3600 in 2011). Volunteers also monitored the growth of 33,530 children (32,453 in 2011) and immunised 26,945 (25,646 in 2011). To date the St John Malawi-run programme has trained a total of 73 Primary Health Care volunteers and a Health Surveillance Assistant for each of three areas, Mbayani, Ndirande and St John Scotland has provided £10,000 a year since 2004, £11,000 from 2008, to help meet Kauma. The first mobile clinic was being launched this year. the running costs of the project, allowing the number of workers to be more than doubled to over 60. In 2011 St John Scotland undertook to fund this programme fully by providing £55,800 over three years. The programme started in 2012 and funding of £22,500 had been provided to In 2009, £10,000 was given to help St John Malawi expand their first aid training in the capital, date. Lilongwe. Additional funding of £15,000 was provided in 2012 to help St John Malawi develop its training services to create an income stream to move towards self-sufficiency.

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Staff at St John’s International Development office: (l-r) Sherona Parkinson, Sally O’Neil, Pippa Hoyland, Louisa Boyle and Saffi Jones THE ST JOHN EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND ST JOHN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE AND ST JOHN ASSOCIATIONS St John Kenya has received funding of almost £23,000 from the St John Emergency Relief Fund this year, to help sick and displaced people, many of them women and children, following the The eight Priories (Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, USA and near-collapse of medical services as a result of bitter fighting between rival ethnic groups in Wales) contribute to the budget of the St John International Office. The size of each Priory’s the country’s Tana River Delta. contribution reflects the number of its Order members and and Scotland currently pays £37,000. Many health centres closed as a result of the violence and the country’s Ministry of Health reported that there were insufficient drugs for the needs of communities, where many people The small staff carry out the essential central tasks of St John. Also they help to provide or are being housed in temporary shelters. coordinate assistance to the more needy of the 33 St John Associations throughout the world through,for example, the International Development Office (see photos).This programme St John Kenya is now working with the Red Cross and the MoH, particularly to identify cases of helps Associations strengthen themselves organisationally, financially and in other ways in acute malnourishment in the area. order to increase their charitable output.

St John Scotland makes regular contributions to the Emergency Relief Fund, having suggested Amongst other things, advice is given on applying for grants from funding bodies outside St the need for it in 2006, following the tsunami disaster two years earlier in Sri Lanka. The idea John. An assistance fund allows small but sometimes critical grants to be made to Associations for a flexible fund, able to respond rapidly to emergencies was agreed by the Grand Council in for help with items such as office or training equipment. 2009. £100,000 was earmarked, with all Priories donating in relation to their Order membership, as for contributions to the budget of St John International in London. Around 50% of the St John International Office budget and, correspondingly, St John Scotland’s share of it, goes towards helping Associations. In 2009, £20,000 was designated for St John Zimbabwe as further help with their work during the cholera epidemic that year. In September 2011, £33,000 was allocated to St John Kenya to After 9 years as the Secretary-General, heading the St John International Office, Rear Admiral enable them to deliver famine relief in the north-east of their country, following discussions Andrew Gough handed over in November 2012 to Vice Admiral Sir Paul Lambert. with the World Health Organisation. Specific objectives included providing food to 15,000 and medical treatment to 1,300 adults and children, all by the end of November.

Before this fund was set up, St John Scotland had given directly to St John Sri Lanka following the tsunami, to St John Kenya at a time of political unrest and to St John Zimbabwe soon after the outbreak of the cholera epidemic. 12 13 RESCUE SUPPORT RESCUE SUPPORT

One of the first St John vehicles Chancellor Douglas Dow flanked by members of Tayside’s two mountain rescue teams SUPPORT OF SCOTTISH MOUNTAIN RESCUE RESCUE BASES St John Scotland has continued its support for the country’s 27 volunteer Mountain Rescue The value of St John Scotland’s support to the country’s volunteer mountain rescue teams was Teams, through the provision of new bases, vehicles and equipment. summed up by Eric Drummond, the secretary of the Tayside civilian team, at the opening of In the past year, one new base has been purchased, equipped and handed over, whilst another their new base in Blairgowrie, when he said: “Quite simply, this is a Godsend to us”. has been completely refurbished. St John Scotland’s provision of infrastructure is designed to The ceremony, carried out by the Chancellor, Douglas Dow, on September 28, 2013 ended help teams provide this life-saving service more efficiently and effectively. 40 years in which the team has been forced to relocate numerous times, from old sheds to The Mountain Rescue Teams are tasked by Police Scotland and whilst are many call-outs disused farm buildings to spells when their equipment had to be stored in the homes and involve climbers and hill walkers, they also support the police in searching for missing persons garages of members. and other incidents. Among St John Scotland-supported teams recognised for their efforts in Blairgowrie is the 13th base to be provided by St John Scotland and will be used by the civilian the past year are Lochaber, Killin and Arran. team and a police team, which jointly cover 2,800 square miles from the Angus Glens to the The Lochaber team received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, to mark their efforts Perthshire Highlands. The converted industrial unit will also support national training in over many years. They received the Award from Cameron of Locheil, the Lord Lieutenant of rigging and canyon rescue. Inverness at their base in Inverness in July. St John Highland Chairman Bob Fullarton and his The St John Scotland base for the Galloway Mountain Rescue team was opened in October 2012 daughter Kirsty, were present at the ceremony. by the Prior Sir Malcolm Ross, who is also Lord Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright Six members of the Killin team received a commendation for bravery and dedication to duty The building in Newton Stewart had from the Chief Constable of Central Scotland Police for rescuing a hillwalkers from the summit previously been an ambulance depot of Ben Ledi in a January snowstorm. Conditions were so bad, they had to crawl on the hands and was bought for £1 from Dumfries and knees to reach the man, who they eventually found clinging to the Harry Laurie Memorial and Galloway Council and completely Cross on the peak. refurbished. The programme to There were no “gongs”, but great gratitude from supply new mountain rescue bases

the people of Arran for the efforts of the local Photo: MacMillan Anthony has so far cost more than £2 million. mountain rescue team (pictured above) during Since 1988, bases have been provided the blizzards which swept the island in March, to the Aberdeen, Arran, Arrochar, 2013. They were out for six days and nights Dundonnell, Galloway, Lomond, rescuing people from stranded vehicles, helping Moffat, Oban, Ochils Skye and Tayside farmers locate livestock in the snowdrifts and teams. delivering vital supplies to remote homes, most A heart defibrillator donated by St John Scotland to the Galloway Mountain Rescue team is to be shared with nearby Douglas Ewart High School in Newton Stewart. Kenny Paterson, the chairman of St John Dumfries and Galloway welcomed the plan: “There is no without electricity after power lines were brought point in having this vital equipment locked in the back of a garaged vehicle,” he said. down. Members and supporters of Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team 14 celebrate their award. 15 RESCUE SUPPORT RESCUE SUPPORT

Against the stunning backdrop of the Arrochar Alps, Chancellor Douglas Dow hands over the keys of a new ambulance to the Handler Rod Stoddart with award- winning Collie, Driesh, with the van donated to the Search and Rescue Dog Association in Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team Scotland, by St John Scotland RESCUE VEHICLES THE SEARCH AND RESCUE DOG ASSOCIATION

Rugged, reliable transport is vital to Scotland’s 27 mountain rescue teams, which is why since St John Scotland has supported the Search and Rescue Dog Association for many years by the mid-1990s St John Scotland has been supporting this volunteer service through a rolling sponsoring its call-out service. This year, Priory decided to award the organisation a grant of programme to help provide vehicles. £25,000 towards the cost of a new vehicle, which is pictured above with handler Rod Stoddart from St Andrews and his award winning dog Driesh. In 2011 Priory agreed to fund a programme designed to replace older vehicles. So far 14 teams have qualified for grants up to £20,000 and more will meet the criteria in the next few years. Rob and eight year-old Driesh, a Border Collie are credited with saving at least ten lives and Increasingly teams are opting to buy ambulance vehicles to supplement the rough terrain have received a PDSA Animal Bravery Award at a ceremony at RAF Leuchars. They are also in Land Rovers which are the mainstay of getting them and their equipment to the scene of the running for at least two more awards. mountain search and rescue. Douglas Dow, the Chancellor of St John Scotland, got These funded vehicles carry the St John logo as well as the chance to congratulate the pair, when they met the name of the team and, in most cases, ambulance up at the opening of the St John Scotland Tayside markings. Most teams also have other vehicles for Mountain Rescue base. which they find funds from other sources including their own fund-raising events.

Priory Members all over Scotland continue to support their local teams by funding-raising to help with on- going costs

The Chancellor, Douglas Dow, had a close encounter of the canine kind, when he met up with handler Rob Stoddart and his heroic hound Driesh at the official opening of the new St John Scotland Tayside Mountain Rescue base at Blairgowrie (See more on the A new vehicle for the Skye Mountain Rescue Team. opening on Page 15)

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The Nith Inshore Rescue boat St John and her crew drew plenty of interested admirers at the Annual Festival of St John in Dumfries St John Glasgow chairman Bill Sommerville, photographed with Consultant Neonatologist Dr Charles Skeoch and Dr Lesley Jackson, Director of the Scottish Neonatal Transport Service in Glasgow, following the handover by St John Scotland of the most modern baby ambulance in Europe NITH INSHORE RESCUE THE ST JOHN SCOTLAND NEONATAL AMBULANCE The Nith rescue boat “St John” was launched in 2010; a year after the Priory provided a grant A donation of £212,000 to the Scottish Neonatal Transport Service (SNTS) from St John of £25,000 to help purchase a much-needed replacement vessel to deal with emergencies on Scotland to design, build and equip the most modern and sophisticated neonatal ambulance the Solway Firth and the river to the south of Dumfries. in Europe at present will, according one of the world’s leading paediatricians “Undoubtedly Since then, only a few members have had the chance to get up close to the 6.8 metre rigid save the lives of many babies” across Scotland. inflatable craft or speak to the volunteer crew, so it quickly became an irresistible attraction when it was put on display at the Festival of St John held this year at the Crichton Complex in Professor Gavin Arneil, a founder of the Yorkhill mother and baby unit in Glasgow, was speaking Dumfries (pictured above). after watching the handover of the keys of the vehicle to Consultant Dr Lesley Jackson by The rescue boat, with its twin 90 horsepower outboard engines, has been used in numerous Douglas Dow, the Chancellor of St John Scotland, on August 21 this year. rescues and has proved ideal because of its speed, manoeuvrability and ability to operate in very shallow water. The vehicle, which is as well equipped as the best hospital intensive care unit for newborn Previously, in 2004, St John Scotland funded a Land Rover for the Glencaple-based Nith babies, was wholly funded by St John Scotland, with half the donation coming from the Inshore Rescue, which is used to transport the main boat, while carrying an eight-foot dingy, Priory’s centrally held funds and half from St John Glasgow, thanks to a bequest from late radio and first aid equipment. members, Walter and Doreen Crichton. It will be known as the Crichton ambulance.

LOCH LOMOND RESCUE BOAT SNTS operates from four centres in Scotland, In 2006 St John donated £32,000 towards the £108,000 cost of a new rescue boat for one of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee, Scotland’s most popular waterways. The Priory was the main contributor and as a result the transferring upwards of 1,700 babies a year rigid-hull inflatable carries the St John name and logo. between hospitals for specialist treatment. Specifically designed for the Loch Lomond Rescue Boat Committee, it has a large deck area to The new ambulance, based at the Royal carry stretchers and fire-fighting equipment. The crew is drawn from 23 volunteers who take Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill, ensures part in 60 rescues a year on average. they will receive life-saving treatment from the Priory has also funded an £18,000 extension to the boathouse at Luss, providing improved moment they are picked up and throughout training and changing facilities for the crew. St John Dunbartonshire has given ongoing the journey, whatever the distance. support for the rescue boat, most recently handing over a cheque for £500 (See picture in Dunbartonshire Activity Report.) St John Scotland is proud to support these hard working doctors and nurses. The keys to the new ambulance are handed over 18 19 TRANSPORT PATIENT CARE PATIENT

First Responders on a course at Carnoustie Angus and Dundee member Bill Harvey is a regular patient transport driver FIRST RESPONDER SERVICE ST JOHN PATIENT TRANSPORT SERVICE Suitable volunteers continue to be trained by the Scottish Ambulance Service to be on call as Patient Transport Angus and Dundee “First Person on Scene” in most parts of Angus, after they have received PVG clearance from Like many regions of Scotland Angus & Dundee has centralised NHS hospitals and for some Disclosure (Scotland). people travel for treatment can be an arduous event, especially when they have illnesses such On receiving a report of an incident the Scottish Ambulance Service will dispatch a paramedic as cancer and renal failure. The timetabling of public transport can exacerbate the difficulties crew to the locus, but where a First Responder is also available locally, and the incident is in attendance. The Service in Angus and Dundee developed from transport for oncology patients receiving within their level of competence, they will task that volunteer to attend. This may be as a lone repeat radiotherapy or chemotherapy 5 days in each week. This concept was extended to take responder or with a supporting “buddy” each of whom is trained in CPR, Oxygen therapy and patients for renal dialysis 6 days each week, an arrangement that has been enhanced in the use of an Automatic External Defibrillator so that they can apply their skills in resuscitation to current year so that patients are able to attend and return home from treatment expeditiously. a patient that has collapsed with suspected cardiac arrest or similar symptoms. On arrival of The Area operates two “People Carriers” for this function augmented by a committed group of the Scottish Ambulance Service crew they will hand over treatment to the paramedics and volunteers who use their own vehicles to transport the patients to treatment. All volunteers assist them in any task they are given, which could be to support relatives at the scene. In the are screened and subject to PVG clearance prior to commencement of duty. year ending 31st December 2012 First Responders dealt with 202 requests from the Scottish With these facilities people are able to readily access their treatment as day patients at NHS Ambulance Service, and a comparable level of attendance is being maintained in 2013. centres. Over 5000 patient journeys are currently undertaken in a 12 month period and 49,763 Currently First Responders use their own vehicles although use of a St John car at weekends miles have been travelled up to August in the current financial year. has been trialled to assess the benefit where volunteers “family” car might not be available. No Anyone wishing to help with this service would be most welcome and should contact the area blue lights or sirens are employed on any vehicle and their identity is displayed by a windscreen chairman, Bill Spence on 01382 350553. visor as well as the Ambulance issue green and yellow fluorescent jacket. Volunteers also carry and display an Identity Card authorising them to attend calls. Responders attend monthly Patient Transport Dumfries and Galloway Priory Members continue to operate their much appreciated transport service for cancer training to maintain their skills in resuscitation and some have also attended an Intermediate patients. A standing commitment is to take people between the west of the region and course. Additionally some have taken Heartstart Instructor courses and support local Dumfries to link up with transport to Edinburgh on Mondays and back on Fridays for weekly communities in promulgating such resuscitation. chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Many other patients are transported for local appointments The “First Person on the Scene“ concept continues to be developed by the Scottish Ambulance on these and other days, as required. Service and a new initial training course is anticipated in 2014. Transport is provided with two people carriers owned by St John Scotland and driven by volunteers from both the Dumfries and Stranraer branches. In addition, volunteers use their own cars when necessary. The service is co-ordinated by Anne Twiname for Dumfries (01387 263241) and Adam Calderwood for Stranraer (07702 584089).They would gladly provide further information and are always pleased to hear from any potential new volunteer drivers.

20 21 ACCOMMODATION PATIENT CARE PATIENT Photo: Richard Waller Photo:

Collectors for transport for cancer patients at the Gretna Gateway Outlet Village in August 2012. Left to right - Charles McKerrell of Hillhouse, John Taylor,May McKerrell of Hillhouse, Florence and John Dewar, Martin Callaghan. ST JOHN RETIREMENT COMPLEX - PALLIATIVE CARE PROJECT, DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY ARCHIBALD RUSSELL COURT, POLMONT

The enhanced palliative care facility at the Galloway Community Hospital in Stranraer opened This thirteen flat complex in Polmont, an attractive village centrally located between in 2007. Funded by St John Scotland, Macmillan Cancer Support and NHS Dumfries and Edinburgh and Glasgow, was opened in 1993. Each flat has two bedrooms, a lounge, kitchen Galloway, the £600,000 project was a major development for the area. Impressively, St John’s and a bathroom. The complex is set in its own spacious, landscaped, grounds and has an £225k share was raised through the efforts of Dumfries and Galloway Priory Members. The St open outlook. There is ample parking space and a large, attractive and secluded garden at the John Unit comprises two bright and spacious en-suite bedrooms with a communal sitting room back of the property. A separate lounge and conservatory provide congenial meeting places and kitchen area. In 2010 a room within the unit for giving enhanced treatment was named for residents and friends. The complex is very close to Polmont railway station, with frequent ‘The Calvert Suite’ in recognition of the support given by local St John Scotland members John fast trains to Edinburgh and Glasgow, and also to bus services and to local shops and a bank. and Pat Calvert. The availability of such treatment reduces the need for travel to hospitals in Glasgow or Edinburgh, and at a time when such journeys can be quite challenging for the Archibald Russell Court, Meadowbank, Polmont, FK2 0EW patients concerned. The complex is managed on behalf of St John Scotland by Bield Housing and Care: The well-established Hospice at Home service continues to offer nursing support for seriously www.bield.co.uk ill patients in their own homes. It is joint funded by St John Scotland and the local NHS Primary Care Trust and operates throughout Wigtownshire.

Further details may be obtained from Elizabeth Hamilton on 01671 403926

22 23 2013 in pictures –- The Festival of St John, Dumfries

The sun shone brightly on the most joyous day in the St John Scotland calendar, the Festival of St John, held this year at the Crichton Complex in Dumfries. Here are just a few memories: SUPPORT TO OTHER CHARITES OTHER TO SUPPORT

Mrs Marjory McLachlan CStJ, the Lord Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk, and past-chairman David Waddell look on as St John Central chairman David Niven hands over a cheque for £3,500 to James McKellar, chairman of the Seagull Trust. ST JOHN CANAL BOATS

St John Scotland has provided major capital funding for canal boats based at Ratho, on the Union Canal just west of Edinburgh. The boats are operated by Seagull Trust Cruises to provide free canal trips for people with special needs. The Ratho base is open every day from the beginning of April until the end of October. Also, special children’s “Santa Cruises” are arranged in the fortnight before Christmas. This year the boats have sailed on 1,299 cruises carrying 12,157 passengers of whom 1,581 were wheelchair users.

The ‘St John Crusader’ was the first boat owned by the Trust and was donated by St John in 1979. The St John Crusader II was provided in 1996, and the St John Edinburgh was commissioned in 2011 and named by HRH The Princess Royal on 26th September. The newer boats are specially designed for disabled people, with a hydraulic lift to assist wheelchair users and anyone who has difficulty with steps. A further boat, the Mackay Seagull, is named after the late Reverend Hugh Mackay who was a founder member of the trust and also a member of St John.

As well as helping meet the cost of building boats, Edinburgh and South-East Area members have generously supported annual running costs. Some St John Scotland members act as skippers or crew. New volunteers who would like to be trained for this are always welcome and should contact Barrie Pendlebury on 0131 663 4428. Also, the Central and Highland Area Committees have helped their local branches of Seagull Trust Cruises.

Anyone wishing to arrange a canal cruise for special needs groups or individuals should call 07554 063911 (Falkirk), 01349 886606 (Inverness), 0141 777 7165 (Kirkintilloch) or 0131 335 3318 (Ratho).

24 25 THE RECEIVER GENERAL’S REPORT Calvert Suite in the Galloway Community Hospital and is valued by the community at large. FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST OCTOBER 2013 The Link-Nurse has been withdrawn by NHS Dumfries & Galloway and reallocated to the mainstream service. The part-funding of this post from St John Dumfries & Galloway ended on 30th September 2012. In other areas, St John has made a donation of £27,500 towards In the year to 31st October 2012, revenue income increased by 20% mainly due to a recovery build-costs of the Mary Kerr Palliative Care Unit at the Borders Hospital in Melrose and other in dividend rates and a substantial legacy left by Mr J M ‘Gregor’ Sinclair KStJ of Edinburgh. hospices in Fife and Clydebank have received small donations from the local committee. Total expenditure rose by 40% to £1,349,000. The significant increase of over £400,000 arises in grant making with the fulfilment of the grants due under the mountain rescue vehicle replacement scheme and the provision of funding for an ambulance for the Neonatal Rescue Support Transport Service. The costs were, mainly, met from designated funds and restricted funds The vehicle replacement programme for mountain rescue teams is now in its second year. held for these purposes. There were additional costs for the engagement of management By the end of the financial year 12 teams had qualified for the grant of £20,000. In 2012, the consultants to undertake the Governance & Management Review and associated professional Arrochar, Cairngorm and Skye teams had ordered their new vehicles and received the funding. fees. Other general expenditure is consistent with previous years. The Priory’s investment Provision has been made for the remaining grants due which will be disbursed once a vehicle portfolio performed well under the management of Brewin Dolphin with an increase in value has been ordered. Funds have been set aside in the Mountain Rescue Vehicle Fund for those of 7.2% and ahead of the benchmark. due in future years. The Priory has supported the Search & Rescue Dog Association for many years by sponsoring its call-out service. This year, the Priory agreed to provide a grant of £25,000 towards the purchase of a vehicle for SARDA. Provision has been made at the year- St John Homes end and the grant was paid in February 2013. In the Central area, the retirement complex in Polmont is managed, on the Priory’s behalf, by St John Scotland has already provided twelve bases for mountain rescue teams. In 2012, work Bield Housing & Care. The flats remain fully occupied. The Priory is proud to offer a safe and was completed on the refurbishment of the Galloway Mountain Rescue Base. A property secure environment for our elderly residents. Sir Andrew Murray House, the holiday home in in Blairgowrie was purchased in March 2013 from Perth & Kinross Council as a base for the Strathyre, has provided an opportunity for other charities to provide holidays for their clients Tayside Mountain Rescue Team. Once the refit of the building is completed the Tayside team at reasonable cost for many years. Unfortunately, over a number of years, there has been a will be able to run their operations and training from a centralised point bringing benefits to steady decline in clients so Chapter took the decision in August 2012 to close the facility as all concerned. the activity was unsustainable. The property has been advertised for sale on the open market. A grant was given to the Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland to fund a project officer to help progress their strategic plan. Funding of communications for the Search & Rescue Dog Patient Transport Association continued. Members in Aberdeen and Dunbartonshire continue to support their In Dumfries and Galloway, the local volunteers continue taking patients to hospitals in local teams with equipment and fund-raising. Stranraer and Dumfries and also to link up with the NHS service to hospitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 2012, 322 people (2011: 232) were transported a total of 27,573 miles (2011 St John Overseas 24,900) and for the first time since this service began, no contribution to running costs was St John Scotland continued to help St John Associations overseas as well as the St John Eye made by NHS Dumfries & Galloway. The St John Angus and Dundee transport service is tasked Hospital in Jerusalem. The St John Eye Hospital is a foundation of the Order of St John and by the Scottish Ambulance Service to carry patients to Ninewells Hospital and the Dialysis Unit supported by St John establishments and members worldwide. Supporting the hospital has in Arbroath. A total of 1,450 patient trips (2011: 3,446) covering 54,595 miles (2011: 150,500 always been a very important part of the work of the members in Scotland and the Priory miles) were undertaken. In Edinburgh, for the 6th year a donation of £10,000 to help with continued to sponsor the employment costs of the Medical Director. We continued our running costs was made to Handicabs (Lothian) Ltd and at the end of the year a commitment funding for the hospital library which pays for a part-time librarian and for subscriptions to was made to fund a vehicle for their ‘dial a bus’ service at an estimated cost of £36,000. medical journals and on-line support. In Malawi, the primary health care project continued to provide a valuable service teaching First Responder basic skills to local people which help to ward against disease. Additional funding of £15,000 In Angus and Dundee, 20 people have volunteered and have been trained as First Responders. was provided in 2012 to help St John Malawi expand its first aid training service in order to Since this pilot scheme started the volunteers have answered 202 call-outs from the Scottish create an income stream to move towards self-sufficiency. St John Malawi is continuing with Ambulance Service. the Home-Based Care project originally funded through the St John International Office. The Priory agreed to fund this project for 3 years with the first tranche being paid in 2012. Palliative Care The palliative care service together with the Hospice at Home option continues at the John

26 27 Local Projects for the Elderly and Disadvantaged DISBURSEMENTS 2012 A variety of charities are helped every year by the St John area committees. This year over £30,000 was given in to help 21 charities throughout the country from Aberdeen to Duns, Patient Transport some being long-standing recipients of support such as the Seagull Trust Cruises in Ratho NeoNatal Transport Service Fully Equipped Ambulance £212,000 and Falkirk and the Sitter Service for the Handicapped in Aberdeen and others being helped for the first time, The Coach House Trust in Glasgow and the Circle of Care in Fife. St John HcL -Handicabs (Lothian) Ltd Vehicle & Running Costs £ 46,000 members are committed to helping the communities in their local areas. CLAN Aberdeen Grant towards Vehicle £ 20,000 Various -£1,000 or less Running Costs £ 800 If you wish to receive more detailed information, the full audited accounts for the year ended £278,800 31st October 2012 are available from the Chancery. They are free to Priory Members with a Rescue Support charge of £20 being made otherwise. Land Rover Replacement Grants for Vehicles £227,200 And finally, my thanks to the area treasurers new and old and to the members of the Finance & Mountain Rescue Committee Funding for management General Purposes Committee whose contributions cannot be under-estimated. support £ 15,000 Various -£1,000 or less £ 1,672 £243,872 Fiona M W Crighton CStJ FCIBS St John Overseas Receiver-General St John Eye Hospital Medical Director Sponsorship £112,028 Library Sponsorship £ 6,000 St John Malawi Association, Malawi Primary Health Care Project £ 11,000 First Aid Project £ 10,000 Home Based Care Project £ 4,500 £143,528 Palliative Care Mary Kerr Unit at Borders Hospital Grant to Building Appeal £ 27,500 Children’s Hospice Association Scotland Rachel House General Funds £ 1,096 Others -£1,000 or less £ 1,000 £ 29,596

Local Projects for the elderly and disadvantaged The Coach House Trust Fund for IT system £ 8,100 M S Society Funding for Oxygen Therapy £ 5,000 Seagull Trust Grants to Falkirk and Ratho branches £ 7,700 Lothian Sound General Fund £ 1,500 Others -£1,000 or less 15 Grants £ 8,600 £ 30,900

TOTAL £726,696

28 29 2012 Income 2012 Expenditure £811,694 £1,349,357 St John Homes - £101,366 Donations & Legacies - £173,418 Patient Transport - £325,221 Fund-raising & Events - £76,202 Rescue Support - £376,536 Oblations & Subscriptions - £39,896 St John Overseas - £166,756 Investment Income - £413,957 St John Homes - £80,930 Palliative Care - £57,487 Patient Transport - £21,291 Local projects for the elderly and disadvantaged - £37,638 Other Income - £6,000 Governance costs - £174,107 Fund-raising Expenses - £53,749 Cost of maintaining membership - £20,273 Investment Management - £25,088 3% 1% First Responder Project - £11,136

10% 21% 2%

4% 1% 1% 8% 9% 3% 13% 24% 4% 51% 12% 5% 28%

30 31 ACTIVITIES REPORT 2012/13 Service. Area Reports On a daily basis Responders are despatched by the Scottish Ambulance Service to attend St John Scotland has 12 Area Committees and these organise various events throughout the locally at reported incidents of cardiac arrest or collapse indicating a similar situation. The First year to raise funds for and awareness of the charitable work of St John. Their efforts benefit Responders use their training and experience to assist the Patient by CPR, Oxygen Therapy or many local causes as well as the St John Eye Hospital Group based in Jerusalem. Some Areas use of a defibrillator until arrival of paramedics from the Scottish Ambulance Service. These provide accommodation, patient transport and First Responder services. volunteers in essence “buy time” until the Ambulance professionals are available to take over handling of the incident. Monthly training is held at Whitehills Hospital in Forfar to ensure the Aberdeen and the North East maintenance of skill levels. As reported in the previous Year Book, the highlight of activity in the Aberdeen and North East Area during 2012 came in July with the presentation of a cheque for £20,000 to CLAN (Cancer A Christmas a Carol Concert was led Link Aberdeen and North) towards the cost of a patient transport vehicle. This donation was by the Reverend William McLaren matched funded by Chapter from centrally held funds. The handover of the cheque was in Stobswell Parish Church Dundee followed by a tour of CLAN’s facilities to enable Priory members to gain a better understanding with St John members joining with of the work of the organisation. the local congregation in some joyful singing. The area maintains its links with and support for mountain rescue in Scotland and the Local gala events in Dundee and Aberdeen and St John Mountain Rescue Team in particular. Carnoustie provide a public platform for the Area to illustrate the activities The committee instituted a new annual feature - St John Medical Lecture. The area was of St John (Scotland) in the local Area. privileged to have its first lecture delivered by Sir Graeme Catto and again a year later Professor Michael Greaves gave a lecture on Medical Ethics and Research. A donation of £4,000 was made towards the costs of a new compressor unit for the Tayside Multiple Sclerosis Tom Scott (Left) and Bill Spence hand over a donation to Tayside MS Angus and Dundee Hyperbaric Unit in Dundee Members of St John Angus and Dundee have been constantly active throughout the year in a Hyperbaric Unit in Dundee. variety of aspects not least of which is Patient Transport. Volunteer drivers convey oncology patients to the Princes Alexandra Unit at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee on weekdays. Other Ayrshire and Arran volunteer drivers take Renal Dialysis patient to Arbroath Infirmary 6 days per week although The area had a quiet year in 2012 for various reasons but the new Chairwoman, Rose-Ann by the nature of unexpected events Cunninghame, stepped in and opened her garden at Caprington Castle to raise funds. Ayrshire sometimes they are diverted to charities -Hansel Village, Girvan Youth Club and The Ark were given grants of £500 each. Ninewells in Dundee. Central First Responders are active across Members of the St John Central Committee continued to act as liaison with Bield Housing & Angus with trained volunteers in Care who are contracted to undertake the management of the retirement complex at Archibald Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie, Forfar, Russell Court, Polmont. This relationship continues to work well for both the residents and the Kellas, Kirriemuir, Monikie, Monifieth Priory. and Wellbank. “First Person The St John holiday home at Strathyre closed at the end of August 2013 as despite the efforts Scene Training” is given to all new by Area Committees across Scotland to promote its facilities, there was a further decline in volunteers and some go on to take demand. The property has been advertised for sale on the open market. “Intermediate Training” all of which is provided by the Scottish Ambulance A donation of £5,000 was made to the Seagull Trust Cruises in Falkirk towards the refurbishment A First Responder gets right down to training

32 33 of the Marion Seagull. This house boat allows families with physically disabled members Dunbartonshire to have a break. The Area supports Forth Valley Royal Hospital’s Accident and Emergency St John Dunbartonshire supports Department by funding a “Get You Home” service for individuals who find themselves stranded five local charities annually - in the A&E department. St John Central also continues to support the Eye Hospital with an Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team, annual donation. St Margaret’s Hospice, Clydebank, Mugdock Country Park, Acorn Dumfries and Galloway Centre for Sick Children, Loch Dumfries and Galloway remains Lomond Rescue Boat – with focused on various Palliative Care donations of £500 each in 2012. An projects and patient Transport. The additional £600 was donated to St Link Nurse within the St John Unit John’s Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. has been withdrawn as a result of re- The area raised nearly £4,000 in 2012 organisation with the NHS therefore with most donations maximised some ancillary services are no longer through the use of the Gift Aid available. scheme. Fund-raising events included a can collection, a raffle A “Wines of the World” event organised by St John Dunbartonshire raised Ethel Vance has retired from the and the sale of Christmas Cards. £500 for the Loch Lomond Rescue Boat. Chairman, Wing Commander George Campbell, handed over the cheque to the Rescue Boat Treasurer, James position of Co-ordinator of the Macrae (right). Hospice at Home Service after many years of sterling service. We are Edinburgh and the South-East very grateful for her dedication and The area continues to support commitment to St John. Seagull Trust Cruises with funding for the running costs The transport service continues and of the three barges operated is much appreciated. Bryce Kelly who on the Union Canal at Ratho. has co-ordinated this service has Donations were also made stood down and been replaced by to Lothian Sound for talking Adam Calderwood (See page 20) books for the blind and MS Society branch in Edinburgh. Dumfries members Stuart McVittie (Left) and Mervyn McAleer braved the On the social front, there was most The South East Scotland bitter cold at the Gretna Gateway Outlet Village, to raise funds for the successful Lunch with the Prior as Cancer Patient Transport Service. branch added £2,500 to the guest speaker. This event raised £900. Priory’s donation of £25,000 The Chairman represented St John at a Carol Service at Portpatrick Church where a collection to the building fund for the raised £300 donated to St John. Palliative Care Unit at Borders General Hospital. St John would like to thank the local community for their ongoing generous support including St John Edinburgh and South East’s “Helping Others Week” led to a donation to retiral collections, in particular, from churches that help to fund our activities. A substantial Lothiansound, talking newspaper for the blind. The big cheque for £500 was handed The Edinburgh & SE members number of donations are regularly received from people who have used the free service. over to treasurer Lex Hope (Centre) by Hon President Margaret Balfour and the ran fund raising events Hon vice-President George Hunter throughout the year with a successful coffee morning, concert, autumn fayre and raffles. More social events included visits to Rosslyn Chapel, the

34 35 Preceptory at Torphichen, a barge trip at Ratho, a tour of the exhibition at the Trades Mission Glasgow and South West Hospital and a tour of the home of avid antique collector, the late Reverend Tom Crichton KStJ. Work began on the production of a new purpose-built ambulance for the Scottish Neonatal Transport Service which took over a year to design and build. The fully equipped ambulance Fife which cost £212,000 was specially designed for the SNTS and is currently the most sophisticated The annual open meeting was held at of its type in Europe. This was a matched funding project between St John Glasgow and Elmwood Golf Club when the guest Priory’s central funds. St John Glasgow put to good use monies received from a bequest by speaker, Dr Joe Coleiro, an eminent the late Walter and Doreen Crichton. Ophthalmologist from Dundee spoke about his time working in the Eye A significant donation of Hospital in Jerusalem. £8,100 went to the Coach House Trust to fund IT Funds raised were down slightly as equipment and another of the annual golf competition was £2,500 to the St John Eye cancelled due to a lack of entries. Hospital Fund. Can collections were the main source of fund-raising but two barbecues The Glasgow members also raised funds and were enjoyed were busy raising funds by members and their guests. A tea throughout the year. The party took place in St Andrews. Coffee main event was the Art afternoons at Glenrothes Hospital Show held in Pollokshields continue to publicise the work of St Burgh Hall. A concert by John and monies raised were spent There was a big turnout of members of St John Glasgow and West for the handover of the St pupils at the Glasgow High John ambulance to the Scottish Neonatal Transport Service (See also page 18A). on items for the patients’ comfort. School raised £620. There was a performance by the The annual carol service was held Eastwood Players and a concert by the Pheonix Choir. The annual dinner, a coffee morning, again at upper Largo and conducted raffle and the sale of Christmas cards, diaries and other St John items added to the total funds by Reverend John Murdoch. The St John Flag flies about Balgonie Castle, Army Cadets from the Black raised of £8,000. Afterwards tea and mince pies were Watch Battalion provide the music and inside a craft fair organised by new Fife secretary Findlay Macrae at the home of Stuart Morris, raised £1,000 for served in the church hall and Mrs the Order. Highland 2012 ended with a carol service which was held in the lovely Church of Scotland in Munlochy, Margaret Dean, the Lord Lieutenant a small village on the Black Isle. The service was conducted by our Area Chaplain the Rev Iain of Fife and Vice President of St John Ramsden and it was pleasing to see a good attendance from the village. The monies raised Fife presented cheques to Riding for went to the Eye Hospital fund. the Disabled, the Eye Hospital, Circle of Comfort, Maggie’s Centre and A Ladies Pamper Night in May in the recreation hall of Raigmore Hospital proved to be very Disability Sport Fife. Small sums were popular and will become regular fund raiser. Tain Rotary invited Highland Area to place an also sent to ten council care homes information stand at their annual fete in June in the grounds of Mansfield Castle Hotel. A in Fife for extra comforts for their display board of Order photographs and other information coupled with a display of Order residents at Christmas. insignia drew a deal of interest and resulted in the signing up of another Priory member.

The Lord Lieutenant of Fife, Mrs Margaret Dean, presents a cheque to Ann Morrison of the Scooniehill branch of Riding for the Disabled in St Andrews. The Thistle Hotel in Inverness was the venue for the annual fashion show held to raise funds for St John Fife chairman Lawson Rennie looks on. The funds were raised at the annual carol service. 36 37 ‘The Play Therapy Unit’ in the children’s ward of Raigmore Hospital. This year, Slaters’ Menswear the charity “Faith in Older People” as part of our work for the elderly. One of their Trustees, the and Country Casuals provided the outfits. Thanks go to them and to all the guys and gals who Right Rev Bruce Cameron, spoke about that organisation, which works to celebrate the lives of gave up their time to make the show a success. older people and develop best practice in understanding and meeting the spiritual needs of older people and their families. The Christmas giving tree once again produced enough gifts for every child in care in the Highland Region. West Lothian Fund-raising events included a Coffee Morning and a Garden Fete. The Area Committee Perth and Kinross organises volunteers to man the Preceptory at Torphichen on behalf of Historic Scotland in The Area continued fundraising the months of April – September at weekends and Bank Holidays. This provides an income for during 2012 with its annual the area and increases the public awareness of the Order of St John (See page 7 – Article on Coffee Morning in Perth in Torphichen Preceptory). September and its Annual Lunch, also in Perth, in The area also hosts a Service commemorating the Martyrdom of St John the Baptist every October. Other special events August in Torphichen. Fourteen members of 1271(Bathgate) Squadron of the Air Training were Douglas Pover’s Jubilee Corps provided a Guard of Honour for the entrance and exit of attendees at the Kirk. Barbecue at Kinfauns in June; Following the conclusion of the service a buffet along with tea and coffee was provided for all and a Renaissance Christmas at Torphichen Inn where friends of many years and of recent time could enjoy the less formal concert by Cantiones Sacrae in and more social part of the day. St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth in December. The concert was a stunning selection of Christmas and Advent carols and motets, ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century, and was arranged jointly with the Friends of Perth Cathedral St John Perth and Kinross pipers, largely recruited from the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Music. Society, in line with tradition, spent much of the summer playing outside Scone Palace, raising more than £1,000 for the Rachel House Children’s Hospice. Throughout the summer our pipers, recruited largely from the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society, continued the tradition of playing at Scone Palace and also at Kinross Show to raise funds for Rachel House Children’s Hospice presenting a cheque for £1,095.

It was sad to lose 3 of our longstanding members, Mrs Cathie Dunbar, Lt Col John Moncrieff and Lt Col Brian Mackenzie during the year, but we were most grateful to their families for sharing the church collections in their memories, totalling over £2,600, with St John Perth & Kinross for Mountain Rescue, Rachel House and St John Eye Hospital.

All our fund-raising enabled us to give further donations of £2,727 to the St John Eye Hospital, Chancellor Douglas Dow inspects a Guard of Honour provided by the local Air Cadet Squadron after a service to commemorate the Jerusalem and £1,613 to Cornhill Macmillan in further support for the Day Room at Perth Martyrdom of St John the Baptist at Torphichen. Royal Infirmary. At the annual Open Meeting in April a donation of £300 was presented to

38 39 2012 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Projects Review. Business at the two meetings of the St John Executives’ Group included further work to share best practice on various matters, and to measure and present the size, 2012 saw the beginning of an especially busy period for Chapter members and staff. The Prior output and impact of St John globally so as to increase financial and other support of it. and Chapter commissioned a governance review to identify whether the Priory was meeting its responsibilities in all areas of its work. See page 45 St Andrews was the venue for the annual festival. A civic The annual meetings of the Grand Council and the St John Executives’ Group were held in reception was given by Fife Sydney in May. The meetings were combined with other major events for St John Australia Council in the town hall on the including a members’ convention, and an investiture and service of dedication in the Great evening of Thursday 7th June Hall of the University of Sydney. There was also an international symposium on the history and guests were treated to a of St John, organised by the St John Ambulance Historical Society of Australia (presentations beat retreat in the adjacent are in the special 12th edition of the society’s journal, accessible through www.stjohn.org.au.) roadway by the pipe band of Madras College, a secondary school in St Andrews. The following morning, a service was held in the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, conducted by the Dean, The Very Reverend Dr John Cairns KCVO, and with the sermon given by the Reverend Bill Paterson. There followed the The Reverend Bill Paterson was invested as a Commander at the annual St John Festival investiture of twenty people in St Andrews. Here he is being congratulated by the Prior. who had been admitted to or promoted in the Order, and

Members of the Grand Council gathered for the official photograph in Sydney, Australia. nine people were presented with the Service Medal of the Order. Within a stone’s throw of the church, the town hall again came into its own, this time for lunch. A most interesting talk As well as the eight Priories, six St John Associations were represented in Sydney – Hong Kong, about the St John Eye Hospital Group was given after lunch by the Priory’s principal guest, Dr Kenya, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and St Lucia. His Royal Highness The Duke Philip Hardaker, the former Hospitaller of the Order. Hosting the festival in St Andrews had of Gloucester attended some of the meetings, held in conference rooms overlooking Sydney been a long-held wish of St John Fife members and they worked very hard to ensure that all Harbour Bridge, and 0pera House. Topics included the Order’s strategic plan, constitutional the arrangements ran like clockwork and without fuss. matters, future senior appointments in the Order, the major re-structuring of the International Office and succession planning. The conversion of some Associations to Priories was further In a special debate on 13th June, the Scottish Parliament paid glowing tribute to what it hails considered, since when St John Kenya has progressed towards becoming a Priory in December as the outstanding work of Scotland’s mountain rescue teams. The debate was concluded by 2013, and the Associations of Hong Kong and Singapore are set to follow soon after. It was Roseanna Cunningham, the Minister for Community and Legal Affairs, who recognised the reported that the Order’s recently-formed International Development Advisory Board was value of the teams’ wide-ranging humanitarian work in lowland as well as highland areas. She focusing on maternal, newborn and child health. This focus has led to a new project, ‘Mama na referred to a visit by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice to the Ochils mountain rescue base and Mwana’ – ‘Mother and Child’, which is being introduced in five African Associations, including highlighted the funding by St John Scotland for that and other bases and also vehicles since Malawi. Each Priory in turn made a presentation to the Grand Council on their current the late 1990s. She commended St John Scotland for its continuing support of the mountain achievements and, later, on fundraising which had worked. Scotland’s presentations included rescue teams which, she said, represented the very best traditions of community voluntary the First Responder and expanded patient transport initiatives arising from the National service.

40 41 In the Diamond Jubilee year of Her Majesty The Queen, St John Scotland received the Lord Prior, Professor welcome promotion Anthony Mellows, sent a thanks to the initiative message of loyal greetings of Fife member, Findlay and congratulations on Macrae. A former member behalf of the members, of the Aberdeen Mountain volunteers and employees Rescue Team, Findlay of the Order. In reply, Her arranged a photographic Majesty sent her grateful display of the Priory’s thanks and good wishes. support to rescue teams and also a window sticker The annual service was with joint St John and held at Torphichen on Scottish Mountain Rescue A team picture in front of their new base for members of Galloway Mountain Rescue. Sunday 26th August, branding. These have been used to great advantage Findlay Macrae’s comprehensive photo exhibition illustrates the extent of St John Scotland’s thanks to arrangements support for mountain rescue. made by St John West Lothian members. As in recent previous years it was conducted in the including, with the help of transepts of the Preceptory church and, as in every year, there was a delicious tea afterwards, team members, at major this time in the church hall. events at the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena such as the Scottish Youth Climbing Championships. When opened, the EICA was the world’s largest indoor climbing arena. On a sunny October Saturday, the Prior opened the newly-provided base in Newton Stewart Already, 9,000 stickers have been distributed, including through all rescue teams which have for the Galloway Mountain Rescue Team. The base, a former ambulance station, had been been keen to make use of them. transferred to the Priory by the Council for £1 and was then refurbished and adapted for use by In November, Vice the team with funding from the Priory. In addition, as was plain at the opening, many people Admiral Sir Paul Lambert from the wider local community, as well as the team, had helped towards the conversion with succeeded Rear Admiral work or material. The event was a welcome opportunity for the team to reinforce links with Andrew Gough as the St John Dumfries and Galloway members, who later funded a defibrillator for the team. As Secretary-General of the well as a raffle and a delicious buffet, including logoed cup cakes, the many guests enjoyed Order. He made an early a fly past by “Rescue 177”, the Royal Navy’s search and rescue Sea King helicopter from HMS visit to St John Scotland, on GANNET at Prestwick. 14th November, meeting with the Prior and staff in St Progress was made during the year with the Priory’s scheme to provide further vehicle funding John’s House. After lunch, to Scottish mountain rescue teams. Under the scheme, up to £20,000 may be provided to a he was driven to the St team whose originally-funded vehicle is more than 12 years old. In March a helpful meeting John-funded base for the was held between the Priory, the Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland and Land Rover Ochils Mountain Rescue UK to streamline the process by which the teams may obtain the valuable discount which Team, where he was met the Priory had arranged with the initial provision. In June, world famous mountaineer and Team leader Kevin Mitchell welcomes Sir Paul Lambert to the Ochils Mountain Rescue base. by the team leader, Kevin rescue innovator, Hamish MacInnes, presented a vehicle to the Glencoe team on the Priory’s Mitchell (see photo) and behalf. In October, Hugh MacLeod of MacLeod, of Dunvegan Castle Skye, similarly handed then on to Archibald Russell Court where he was met by the then chairman of St John Central, over a vehicle to the Skye team, following in the footsteps of his late father, John MacLeod of David Waddell. (Earlier in the year, Kevin’s impressive voluntary community service earned MacLeod, who had presented the team with their first St John-funded vehicle. him selection as one of the Olympic torch bearers.)

42 43 Other visitors to St John’s House included Dr Harry Oxer from St John Australia who had report was accepted by Chapter and implementation continues. been gathering information about Priory swords. He took photographs of the Priory’s two swords and these now appear in a book on the subject. This provided a further link with the Following the review outcomes, a number of sub committees have been established (see St John Ambulance Historical Society of Australia, following participation in the international below) to enable a quicker response to demands at local, national and international level. symposium, reported above. Dr Oxer is the President of the Society, which was founded in 2001. The Reverend Colin Westmarland visited earlier in the year. A resident of Malta, where In November, 2012 Chapter spent a few months considering Priory’s direction of travel and he was for many years the Minister of St Andrews Scots Church in Valletta, Colin added to his how best to apply the skills, enthusiasm and goodwill of members and supporters. This was many generous donations of books to the Priory library. In September, the Dean welcomed challenging and insightful. The outcome is a plan which sets out what we, the Priory members, the Reverend Dr Robert Beaken, the St John County Chaplain for Essex. hope to achieve with our supporters and beneficiaries by 2020.

Also in November, the Priory was, as usual, kindly invited by the Sovereign Military Order The Strategy is very much based upon shared concerns and suggestions obtained through a of Malta to attend their annual requiem mass, held in St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, series of meetings, facilitated by Dr Mitchell, with Order and Priory members across Scotland Edinburgh. Again as usual, the Priory formed part of the procession at the St Andrewstide and our staff at St John’s House. From these discussions five key goals were established with Service in St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, on Sunday 2nd December. detailed objectives and targets attached to each. They are: • Be recognised as a leading life-saving & life-enhancing charity in Scotland; And finally, The St John Bookshop closed its doors for the last time in March 2013. Falling sales • Improve public awareness & perceptions of the activities and achievements of Priory, and a lack of volunteers made it unsustainable. The Priory is grateful to Bob and Margaret • Develop an active membership base of all ages throughout Scotland which participates Cook who ran the closing down sale and helped clear the premises. The property has been in fundraising and delivery of charitable benefit, leased and is now a Fashion Boutique. • Make a difference by raising and applying at least £2million of funds and deliver service to more than 5,000 people at local level and, • Improve revenue from activities and protect the Priory from financial shock. • Underpinning the goals will be a ‘Portfolio of Activities’. These have been put together and are on offer for Area participation as appropriate. Additionally, other types of local activity will be GOVERNANCE REVIEW & STRATEGY 2020 BRIEFING encouraged to ensure that we cater for all membership age profiles.

As you are aware, the Priory is a registered charity. Early in 2012 Chapter (the Board) which A series of Governance Review and Strategic Planning work presentations have taken has responsibility for managing Priory, commissioned a review of the Priory’s governance and place over the past months when Area Chairmen, Area Committee members and all Priory related matters. Chapter members (charity trustees) were concerned that there was a danger members across Scotland have had the opportunity to attend to hear first hand of the exciting of standing still, and losing direction and momentum. The last major strategic review had opportunities for each of us, in our own way, to put into practice. taken place more than 10 years earlier and in light of the enormous changes in the needs of The journey continues. society, particularly changes to health provision and support, coupled with the fact that laws and regulations had moved on, it was necessary to ensure that we met and would continue to meet the Charity and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and regulatory requirements.

It was agreed that a Governance Working Group (GWG) should be established to drive forward the review. The group, under the Chairmanship of Prior, consisted of the Chancellor, Receiver General, Hospitaller and Chapter member David Watson. A tender document was Fiona MW Crighton prepared and five respected and experienced Scottish firms/companies expert in the areas Project Manager of Governance, Strategy and Compliance with Laws and Regulations were invited to bid for St John Scotland Governance Review the work. The successful firm appointed was CGPM Consulting of Edinburgh, led by Dr Tom Mitchell, Senior Partner. After in-depth work reviewing our governance arrangements the

44 45 GOVERNANCE OF THE ORDER GOVERNANCE OF ST JOHN SCOTLAND

The Order of St John is a separate body from its Priories and other establishments and is Those in control and management of St John Scotland are its Trustees – the Prior and members registered with the Charity Commission of England & Wales. The Trustees are the Great of the Chapter. They all bear equal trustee responsibility and are listed below. Some Trustees Officers of the Order, the Priors of each Priory or their appointed representative, and the Order are also Priory Officers, as shown in italics. Hospitaller and together they form the Grand Council. Grand Council meets once per year and deals with matters beyond the responsibility of any one particular establishment, including Sir Malcolm Ross GCVO OBE – Prior Order-wide policy and strategy. The Great Officers and the Grand Council are supported by the Secretary-General, who heads a small Secretariat in London. Douglas Dow – Chancellor

Each of the Priories, Commanderies and St John Associations has its own constitution. They The Very Reverend Dr John Cairns KCVO – Dean are subject to the Charter, Statutes and Regulations of the Order, but within that they have a wide degree of autonomy. Ian Wallace – Hospitaller

GREAT OFFICERS Fiona Crighton – Receiver General HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO - Grand Prior Professor Anthony Mellows OBE TD - Lord Prior Gordon Casely – Director of Ceremonies The Right Reverend John Nicholls - Prelate of the Order Mr Stuart Shilson LVO – Sub Prior Charles Munro

PRIORS The Reverend William Paterson Mr Rodney Green - England and the Islands Sir Malcolm Ross GCVO OBE - Scotland David Watson Mr Dan Clayton-Jones OBE TD DL - Wales The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu OMSG DD FKC - South Africa HE Sir Jeremiah Mateparae GNZM QSO - New Zealand HE The Rt Hon David Lloyd Johnston CC CMM COM CD - Canada PRIORY OFFICERS ( who are not trustees) HE Ms Quentin Bryce AC CVO – Australia Mr Alfred Marshall Acuff Jr - USA Robin Blair CVO – The Genealogist

The Order Hospitaller and Chairmen of the Hospital Board - Mr Nicholas Woolf

ST JOHN ASSOCIATIONS As well as the eight Priories, there are thirty three St John Associations. They exist in Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bermuda, Cameroon, Cyprus, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Saint Lucia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Additionally, Northern Ireland is a Commandery and the Republic of Ireland an associated body.

46 47 AREA COMMITTEES Dumfries & Galloway Andrea Bennis (H) = Area contact for St John Eye Hospital Chairman: Kenneth Paterson Adam Calderwood Secretary: Elizabeth Hamilton, 5 Doon Brae, Pat Calvert Aberdeen and NE Angus DD9 6UE Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, DG8 6LQ Alison Chalmers Chairman: Jennifer Shirreffs Tel: 01674 820294 Tel: 01671 403926 Catherine Donnelly Joint Vice-Chairman/Secretary: Mike Will, Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Evelyn Fulton Treasurer: Lorna Robbie Paul Rorie Lesley McColm 3 Middle Ardo Steading, Udny, Ellon, Chaplain: Rev William McLaren Adam Calderwood Aileen Thomson Aberdeenshire, AB41 6QX Press Officer: Robert Hill The Reverend Martin Callaghan Elma Walker Tel: 01651 842538 Honorary President: The Rt Hon Earl of John Dewar Email: [email protected] Dalhousie Peter McMahon Michael Will (H) Honorary Vice-President: John Gooch John Taylor Dunbartonshire 27 Scotsmill Road, Kinmohr Gardens, Anne Twiname Chairman: George Campbell Joseph Coleiro (H) Blackburn, Kinellar, Aberdeenshire, AB21 0HG Vice-Chairman: Douglas Dow Laurie Fraser Tel: 01224 790395 Secretary: Donald Fullarton (H) Email: [email protected] Bill Harvey Dumfries Committee Inistore, 58 James Street, Helensburgh, Treasurer: Joe Mackie Robert Hill Chairman:The Reverend Martin Callaghan Dunbartonshire, G84 9LX Publicity Officer: Vacant Reverend David Logan Vice-Chairman: Anne Twiname Tel and fax: 01436 673774 Honorary President: David Paton Dr Robert Peat Secretary: John Taylor Email: [email protected] Professor Mike Greaves (H) Keith Rennie Elmar, Greenlea, Collin, Dumfries, DG1 4PS Treasurer: John Brown Tel: 01387 750308 Press Officer: Donald Fullarton Iain Barclay Central Treasurer: John Dewar Reverend Jane Baron Thomas Downs Gordon Casely Chairman: David Niven Florence Dewar Paul O’Reilly Clifford Eastmond - Mountain Rescue Laujen, 1 Morven Drive, Polmont, Falkirk, Arthur Langcake Kirsteen Young Association Stirlingshire, FK2 0XD Mervyn McAleer Peter Galloway – Mountain Rescue Association Tel: 01324 715241 Charles McKerrell of Hillhouse Malcolm Lamont – Mountain Rescue Email: [email protected] Stuart McVittie Edinburgh and the Association Treasurer: Robert Taylor David Thomson South East Sheena MacBride Chairman: Ian Robertson Archibald Russell Stuart MacBride Secretary: Vivienne Robertson Dawn MacKinnon William Anderson Stranraer Committee 61/1 Melville Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7HL Sandra Stephen Daniel Gallacher Chairman: Kenneth Paterson Tel: 0131 225 2673 Valerie Taylor Arthur Leask Secretary: Elizabeth Hamilton, 5 Doon Brae, Email: [email protected] James Malone (H) Newton Stewart,Wigtownshire, DG8 6LQ Treasurer: James Floyd The Reverend John Murning Tel: 01671 403926 Press Officer:Duncan McAra Angus & Dundee John Paterson Email: [email protected] Honorary President:Margaret Balfour Chairman: William Spence Alastair Petrie Treasurer: Colin Wilson Honorary Vice-President: George Hunter Vice-Chairman: Press Officer: vacant Fundraising Chairperson: Liam Hackett The Reverend Canon Joseph Morrow Robert Cook (H) Secretary: Elisabeth Hill, Strathella Steading, Farnell, by Brechin,

48 49 Susan Balfour Stuart Morris of Balgonie Samuel Warden Frances Brown Lynn Cleal Dennis Marshall Alasdair Hutton Sandra Marshall Dennis McEwan Glasgow Perth & Kinross James Provan Barrie Pendlebury Chairman: William S Sommerville Chairman: John Ferguson-Smith (H) Bertha Robertson Andrew Smith Vice-Chairman: William Gilmour Secretary: Robin M Webster Anne Stirling Charles Whytock Secretary: Jim Bingham Fernbrae, Dryside Road, Glenlomond, Ian Wallace (H) Queenzieburn, 43 Anderson Crescent, Kinross KY13 9ND Kilsyth, G65 9EW Tel: 01592 840118 South - East Scotland Tel: 01236 824903 Email: [email protected] Committee Email: [email protected] Vice-Chairman: Alexander Stewart Chairman: Major Alasdair Hutton OBE TD Treasurer: William McAdam Treasurer: Neil Gaunt Secretary: Isobel Paterson Membership Secretary: Andy Beatson Benachie, Gavinton,Duns, Margaret Bartaby Press Officer: Douglas Pover Berwickshire TD11 3QT Richard Jackson Honorary President:Melville Jameson, Lord Tel: 01361 882727 Stuart Mathewson Lieutenant of Perth & Kinross Treasurer: Nancy Hodge Archibald McGown Andrew Mushet Patricia Beatson Tara Barron Peter Neil John Blair Simon Furness Gordon Price Fiona Crighton Aline Hay Alison Steel Sheila Ferguson-Smith Bruce MacLachlan Hilary MacKenzie Alexander Trotter Beth Pover Highland David Sherman Chairman: Robert Fullerton Janice Webster Fife Secretary: Gwen Fullerton Chairman: Lawson Rennie 84 Drakies Avenue, Inverness IV2 3SD Vice-Chairman: George Donaldson Tel: 01463 224973 West Lothian Secretary: Secretary: G. Findlay Macrae Email: [email protected] Chairman: W Keith Stirling 10 Formonthills Lane, Formonthills, Treasurer and Press Officer: W Crawford Vice-Chairman: Atholl McInnes Glenrothes, Fife, KY6 3EL McMaster Secretary: Stuart M Learmonth Tel: 01592 744435 Chaplain: Donald Prentice 42 Birkdale Park, Armadale, Treasurer: Lesley MacDonald West Lothian EH48 2NE Chaplain:The Reverend John Murdoch Alex Craib Tel: 01501 730555 Press Officer:Mary Gilmour Mark Sutherland-Fisher Treasurer: David T S Gibb Honorary President: The Earl of Dundee Kirsty Fullerton Preceptory Liaison Officer: Archibald Brown Honorary Vice-Presidents: Philippa Crawford, Malcolm MacBean Press Officer: Jim Robertson Margaret Dean, Lord Leuitenant of Fife John MacKay Honorary President: Isobel Brydie, Lord Laurence Parsons Lieutenant of West Lothian James Hutchinson Sylvia Parsons Honorary Vice-President: Effie B Smith Elizabeth Laing Frank Spencer-Nairn (H)

50 51 ROLL OF ORDER MEMBERS IN THE PRIORY OF SCOTLAND BAILIFFS and DAME GRAND CROSS (GCStJ)

The Priory Roll has been up-dated to add members newly admitted to the Order or transferred STIRLING of GARDEN, Sir James, KCVO CBE TD BA FRICS (K 1986) 2004 - C from elsewhere and to delete those who have resigned, died or transferred to other Priories, or with whom contact has long been lost. The total on the roll is 849 (compared with 869) in KNIGHTS and DAMES (KStJ & DStJ) (*denotes Knights of Justice) the preceding year book). AGNEW, Mrs Shiela (M 1974, O 1978, C 1984) 1991 - G The area in which members live is indicated by code letters after their names as follows: * AIRLIE, The Earl of, KT GCVO PC JP (O 1981) 1995 - AD

AA Ayrshire & Arran F Fife BALFOUR, Mrs Margaret Euphemia Bremner (M 1970, O 1976, C 1993) 1998 - ED AB Aberdeen & the North-East G Glasgow & the South-West BARR, Mrs Agnes Arthur Paton (M 1986, O 1989, C 1994) 1999 - C AD Angus and Dundee H Highland BARTABY, Mrs Margaret Jane Coutts, DPE MCSP (M 1983, O 1987, C 1997) 2006 - G C Central O Outside Scotland * BLAIR, Colonel John Samuel Greene, OBE TD BA ChM FRCP FRCS FICS DLitt FSAScot (M 1979, DG Dumfries & Galloway PK Perth & Kinross O 1984, C 1988) 1993 - PK DN Dunbartonshire WL West Lothian BURNET, Captain George Wardlaw, LVO LLB WS (O 1971, C 1979) 1985 - ED ED Edinburgh & the South-East * BURNETT, Charles John, DA AMA MLitt FSAScot (M 1972, O 1974, C 1982) 1990 - AB

Un denotes a member whose current address is not held at the Chancery. CALVERT, Mrs Patricia Anne, RGN (M 1984, O 1988, C 1995) 2005 – DG Anyone who is in touch with a person in this category is requested to advise the Administrator. * CASELY, Gordon, FRSA FSAScot (M 1974, O 1996, C 2003) 2012 - AB (tr) shows that a member has transferred from another Priory. CHRISTIE, Miss Marjorie Alice Garden (C1974) 1991 – G(tr) CRAWFORD, Mrs Philippa Marie (M 1981, O 1984, C 1993) 2003 – F * CRUICKSHANK of AUCHREOCH, Martin Melvin, FRGS (O 1965, C 1974) 1982 – PK

Admissions and Promotions 2013 DOW, Douglas Charles James, LLB NP (M 1985, O 1993, C 2003) 2012 - DN Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the following promotions in, * DRUMMOND-MURRAY of MASTRICK, William Edward Peter Louis (C 1977) 1988 - ED and appointments to, the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. FLEMING, William, FIDHE FInstD EIMgt FSAScot (M 1987, O 1989, C 1997) 2009 - G FORD, John Noel Patrick, FInstD (M 1984, O 1986, C 1996) 2003 - G Knight Gillian Lesley Munro FORREST, Mrs Elisabeth Margaret Ross (M 1964, O 1966, C 1977) 1986 - G Lawson Rennie John Murning FULLARTON, Donald Speirs, MBE FSAScot (M 1983, O 1989, C 1996) 2005 - DN Ian William John Wallace Christina Liddell Neil Alison Steel *GOOCH, John Daniel, VRD FRICS (M 1993, O 1995, C 1999) 2006 – AD Commander James Alexander Bingham Member *HARDIE, Brigadier Donald Graeme, CVO TD FIM, 1996 - DN John Ballantyne Cairns William Alfred Hackett Esquire: George Campbell Mary Speirs Gilmour David Dudley John Logan HARKNESS, The Very Reverend Dr James, KCVO CB OBE MA DD FRSA (O 1988, C 1998) 2012 - ED Elisabeth Cargill Hill OBE John Ingram MacKay Charles Inglis Munro Murray Robertson McEwan HARRIS, Raymond McGarva, CA (M 1967, O 1972, C 1982) 1990 - G Allan Stewart Alexander James Stewart HUNTER, George Alexander, OBE (M 1985, O 1987, C 1994) 1999 - ED John William Taylor Bell David Martin Thomson Mervyn Gerald Keith McAleer * INNES of EDINGIGHT, Sir Malcolm Rognvald, KCVO MA LLB WS (O 1962) 1982 - ED Officer Ivan Corry Warwick Stephen George Corbett LEITCH, Robert, CA (M 1984, O 1988, C 1997) 2006 - G Mark Donald Dennis MARR, Norman Gray, DipArch FRIAS ARIBA (M 1970, O 1986, C 1993) 2003 - AB Findlay Macrae McNEE, Sir David Blackstock, QPM (O 1974, C 1978) 1990 - G

52 53 MURRAY, Ewan Skinner, OBE FSAScot (M 1984, O 1986, C 1996) 2006 - G BROWN, Charles Stevenson Bradshaw, FRICS ACIArb (M 1989, O 1992) 1998 - C BROWN, John Henderson, AIBScot (M 1992, O 1996) 2000 - WL * PATON, David Romer, OBE DL FRICS DBA (SB 1991, O 1997, C 2000) 2005 – AB CAIRNCROSS, Mrs Mary Margaret, DL (M 1984, O 1988) 1997 - PK *RENNIE, Lawson, MIBMS AIST (M 1977, O 1999, C2003) 2013 - F CAIRNS, The Very Reverend Dr John Ballantyne, KCVO LTh LLB DD LLD, 2013 - ED ROBINSON, Anne W, 1987 – H (tr) CAITHNESS, George Sutherland, MBE MB ChB DObstRCOG MRCGP (M 1992, O 1994) 1999 - F * ROSS, Sir Walter Hugh Malcolm, GCVO OBE (C 2007) 2009 – DG (tr) CALDERWOOD, Adam Stevenson, JP, (M 2003) 2009 - DG * RUSSELL, Archibald McIsaac (M 1970, O 1973, C 1976) 1981 - C CALDERWOOD, Miss Annie Hannah, ISO CPM (M 1988, O 1994) 1997 - DG Esquires: George Lithgow Russell CARMICHAEL, Mrs Irene Mary, PhC MRPharmS (M 1997, O 1999) 2011 - G Stuart Alexander Russell COLEIRO, Joseph Anthony, MD DO(Lond) FRCSEd FRCOphth(Lond) (M 1994, O 1999) 2006 - AD SHARP, Colonel Neil Muir, MBE TD CA (M 1982, O 1984, C 1995) 2003 - AD COLTART, Colonel George John Letham, TD MA MSc CEng MICE (M 1991, O 1992) 1995 - ED SHAW, Sir John Calman, CBE BL FRSE CA FCMA JDipMA Drhc LLD HonLLD DLitt (M 1963, O CRIGHTON, Mrs Fiona Mary Wilson, FCIBS CharteredMCIPD MCMI, (M 2003, O 2006) 2011 - PK 1966, C 1970) 1993 - PK SUTHERLAND, Mrs Georgina Scott (M 1954, O 1958, C 1965) 1979 - AB DALHOUSIE, The Earl of, DL, ( O 1999) 2012 - AD DAVIE, Lieutenant-Colonel John, MBE MC (O 1971) 1981 - O THOMPSON, Mrs Jane Beveridge Wilkie, DipIECDS (M 1977, O 1981, C 1995) 2003 - ED DAVIES, Lieutenant-Colonel Hywel William, MA (M 1995, O 1996) 2009 - AA *TILLING, George Henry Garfield, MA FSAScot (O 1977, C 1985) 1994 – ED DONALDSON, George, JP FCFA CG (M 1997, O 2000) 2008 - F DONALDSON, Mrs Marjorie Stuart (M 1988, O 1990) 2003 - AB *WADDELL, David, DMS MIMgt (M 1989, O 1992, C 2001) 2009 - C DOUGLAS, David Ogilvy, CA (M 1973, O 1974) 1992 - ED WALLACE, Ian William John, BSc MB ChB FRCS (M 1992, O 1995, C 2005) 2013 - WL WILSON of TILLYORN, Lord , KT GCMG PhD MA 1987 – ED (tr) FARQUHARSON, Sir Angus Durie Miller, KCVO OBE, (M 2001) 2009 - AB FERGUSON-SMITH, John, MB ChB DObstRCOG AFOM, (M 2003, O 2006) 2011 - PK FLAVELL, Mrs Jane Alexandra, DipHEc (M 1983, O 1988) 1999 - C CHAPLAINS (ChStJ) FLAVELL, R Gordon, BA MIOP (M 1983, O 1986) 1992 - C FORREST-HAMILTON, Mrs Marguerite (M 1946, O 1947) 1951 - Un BARBOUR, The Very Reverend Professor Robert Alexander Stewart, KCVO MC MA STM DD FRASER, Mrs Margaret Elizabeth, JP (M 1977, O 1978) 1982 - H 1977 - PK FRASER, William Alexander Elrick, MBE JP (M 1979, O 1983) 2006 - H

LUSCOMBE, The Right Reverend Dr Lawrence Edward, MA MPhil PhD LLD DLitt CA FSAScot (M GILLIES, Alasdair Buchanan, BDS FDS RCPS(Glasgow) (M 1978, O 1981) 2001 - C 1981, O 1985) 1995 - AD GILMOUR, Mrs Mary Speirs, (M 1998, O 2006) 2013 - F

MORRIS, The Very Reverend William James, KCVO JP BA BD PhD LLD DD (O 1978) 1990 - G GOW, Mrs Elizabeth (M 1989, O 1993) 2003 - ED GRAHAME, Miss Sheila (M 1974, O 1988) 2003 - ED STRONG, The Reverend Clifford, LTh (M 1988, O 1991) 2000 - F GRANT, Miss Elizabeth Battison Morgan (M 1978, O 1983) 1987 - DN

COMMANDERS (CStJ) HILL, Mrs Elisabeth Cargill, OBE (M 1999, O 2005) 2013 - AD HILL, Sidney Robert, BSc (M 1992, O 1996) 2003 - AD ANDERSON, James, CBE JP DL, (O 1979) 2009 - C HUTCHINSON, James Carl, ISM (M 1992, O 1995) 2000 - F HUTCHISON, Mrs Virginia, (M 1980, O 1992, C 1998) – F (tr) BALFOUR, Iain Robertson (M 1997, O 2003) 2008 – ED BINGHAM, James A, FSAScot (M 1995, O 1999) 2013 - G JAMESON, Brigadier Melville Stewart CBE 2010 - PK BLEWITT, Mrs Hilary Isabel (M 1983, O 1992) 1999 - C JOHNSTON, Mrs Moira (M 1992, O 1995) 2001 - WL BLEWITT, Robert Richard Binnie, FSAScot (M 1983, O 1986) 1993 - C LEASK, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur James, TD (M 1989, O 1995) 2003 - C BROTHERTON, Mrs Elizabeth Lorna (M 1989, O 1992) 1997 - F LEITCH, Mrs Christina Anne (M 1984, O 1989) 2001 - G BROWN, Archibald Buchanan, RCM (M 1988, O 1997) 2006 - WL LISTON, Mrs Katharine Margaret Ella, MA (M 1984, O 1990) 2008 - DN

54 55 LIVINGSTONE, Ian McLean (M 1990, O 1996) 2000 - WL SPENCE, William Arthur, QPM LLB BA (M 2003, O 2006) 2011 - AD STEWART, Allan, CA (M 1993, O 1996) 2013 - G MACGREGOR, James Duncan, OBE MD FFPHM DPH DTM&H (M 1992, O 1994) 1997 - PK STEWART, Trevor Melvin Robinson (M 1996, O 2000) 2012 - G MACKENZIE, Percy Arthur Paul, TD JP LRCP & S LRFPS (O 1970) 1980 - ED STEYN, John Hofmeyr, MB ChB PhD FRCS FRCSE (M 1983, O 1985) 1990 – AB MACKIE, Joseph (M 1987, O 1994) 2008 - AB (tr) STIRLING of GARDEN, Lady (M 1992, O 1998) 2006 - C MACKIE, Neil, CBE DMus FRSE FRSAMD ARCM DipMusEd DRSAM FRSA (Esq 1972, M 1974, O 1986) 1995 - O TAYLOR, John William Bell (M 1998, O 2003) 2013 - DG MACLEHOSE of BEOCH, The Lady, 1971 - G (tr) TAYLOR, Robert (M 1994, O 1996) 1999 – C MACPHERSON, Ian Alistair, MBE JP FIMBM FCIOB FFB (M 1973, O 1976) 1983 - G TWINAME, Miss Anne, MHCIMA (M 1991 O 1999) 2010 - DG McARA, Duncan Charles, DipPub FSAScot (SB 1995, O 1996) 1999 - ED McGOWN, Archibald McAllister (M 1993, O 1996) 2009 - G VALENTINE, Thomas (M 1993, O 1997) 2006 - C McIVER, Mrs Eileen Fisher, FSAScot (M 1991, O 1994) 1999 - ED McLACHLAN, Mrs Marjory Jane, 2008 - C WADDELL, Mrs Charlotte Nimmo Gardner, MIBS (M 1995, O 1998)2011 - C McLAREN, Hamish Dickson (M 1983, O 1988) 1991 - PK WALTON, David, JP HonFRCPSG (M 1977, O 1983) 1984 - G McMAHON, Peter, CA (M 1981, O 1988) 1996 - DG WARDEN, Samuel Connor, FIST MInstAM IFSTA ASTA (M 1983, O 1986) 2009 - H MILNE, James Andrew Pyper, MInstR (M 1972, O 1982) 1987 - DN WARDROPE, Gavin Kenneth, FSAScot (M 1991, O 1994) 2003 - G MORROW, The Reverend Canon Joseph John (M 1996, O 1998) 2012 – AD WATSON, David, CA FSAScot (M 1984, O 1988) 1999 - G MUNRO, Charles Inglis (M 1999, O 2003) 2013 - G WEST, John Watt, RGN RMN (M 1992, O 1995) 2000 - DG MURDOCH, Kenneth Lyle Stewart, DA ARIBA ARIAS (M 1990, O 1996) 2001 - PK WHYTOCK, Charles Ian Gibson (M 1987, O 1994) 2003 - ED MURPHY, James Barrie, MB ChB DPM FRCPsych (M 1989, O 1994) 2003 - G OFFICERS (OStJ) NEIL, Peter Black, FGA DGA (M 1998, O 2001) 2012 - G NIVEN, David Anderson Christie, FSAScot (M 1997, O 1999) 2005 - C ABRAM, Henry Charles, VRD DL, 1977 - G AGNEW, Ian, MA(Cantab), (M 1984) 1987 - PK PATERSON, The Reverend William, BD Glasgow, (M 2003, O2006) 2012 - ED ALLAN, Malcolm McRae, (M 1980) 1984 - C PATERSON, Kenneth George, LLB NP (M 1997, O 2000) 2005 - DG ANDERSON, Mrs Agnes Scott, (M 1984) 1989 - G PATTISON, Lisle, MBE TD BA FCIS FRGS (M 1993, O 1995) 1997 - PK ANDERSON, Norman Robert Craig , (M 1982) 1984 - G PELHAM BURN, Angus Maitland, JP DL (O 1978) 1995 - AB ARNEIL, Emeritus Professor Gavin Cranston, MD PhD DSc FRCP FRCPG FRCPI FRCPE FAAP PETRIE, Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair Stewart, TD JP (M 1985, O 1990) 1998 - C FRCPCH DCH (M 1986) 1999 - DN ARNOTT, John Emslie, DA DipTP ARSA ARIBA ARIAS (M 1971) 1974 - ED RENNIE, Keith (M 1995, O 1998) 2006 - AD ROBB, Air Commodore Robert Cleghorn, OBE MB ChB DPH MFCM, 1976 - O BAILLIE, Mrs Margaret Peden (M 1984) 1998 - F ROBERTSON, James (SB 1977, O 1998) 2006 - WL BALFOUR, Miss Susan Margaret, BA (Hons), (M 2001) 2006 - ED ROSS, Alastair Robertson, RSA RGI FRBS DA FSAScot HonFRIAS DArts (M 1979, O 1984) 1997 BEE, Mrs Jane Wright ,(M 1996) 2005 - C - AD BIGGART, Thomas Norman, CBE MA LLB WS, 1968 - G RUSACK, Ronald Edward Seton, MBE FBII (M 1982, O 1984) 1997 - ED BLACK, Allister David, FSCA FSAScot (M 1997) 1999 - G RUSSELL, Lesley Christine, RGN CMB (M 1985, O 1993) 1998 - AB BLAIR, Edward Taylor Hardie (M 1998) 2003 - ED SCOTT, Thomas (M 1996, O 2001) 2009 - AD BLAIR, Mrs Joan Anne, DipEd DipIndAdmin (M 1997) 2003 - ED SHAW, Neil, MBA FRICS ACIArb (M 1981, O 1984) 1988 - O BLAIR, Robin Orr, CVO MA LLB WS, 2001 - ED SHIRREFFS, Mrs Jennifer Anne, MBE BSc DL (M 1991, O 1995) 2003 - AB BORTHWICK, Kenneth White, CBE JP DL, 1978 - ED SMAIL, Ian Balfour, BSc CEng ARCST FIMarE (M 1989, O 1991) 1997 - G BROLLS, Mrs Mary Agnes (M 1997) 2001 - G SMITH, Mrs Elspeth Burrell (M 1977, O 1984) 1993 - WL BROWN, Mrs Alexina Mary Robertson (M 1989) 1995 - G SMITH, The Reverend Richard, JP BD (M 1987, O 1990) 2003 - C BROWN, Mrs Frances (M 1990) 2000 - WL SMITH, Sir Robert Courtney, CBE MA(Cantab) CA LLD FRSE (M 1973, O 1976) 2003 - PK BROWN, Iain Alistair Carlton, BSc (M 1974) 1980 - G SOMMERVILLE, William Sands (M 1986, O 1989) 2008 - G BROWN, John (M 1997) 2003 - DN

56 57 BROWN, William Robertson, TD FSAScot (M 1995) 1996 - ED DOWNS, Thomas Mathie (M 1994) 2000 - DN BRUCE, James Ritchie, MCIBS (M 1989) 1991 - Un DUCKWORTH, Malcolm, BSc (M 1978) 1979 - AB BUHLER-LOW, Christian, 1984 - O DUDGEON, Miss Margaret (M 1959) 1966 - G BURTON, The Lady (M 1989) 1992 - H DUFF, John Edward Murray, BEM (M 1976) 1980 - AB BURTON, Mrs Helen Dougal, MCST BSc(Hons) (M 1998) 2003 - G DUNCAN, Mrs Frances Elsbeth, OBE JP, 1999 - AD DUNCAN, Mr John Lawrence, QPM, 2011 - AA CAIRNS, Mrs Margaret Greenlees (M 1988) 1993 - G DUNDEE, The Earl of, 1980 - F CALLAGHAN, The Reverend Martin Peter, CECM, (2006) 2010 - DG DUNDEE, The Countess of (M 1999) 2003 - F CAMERON, Lord Provost Elizabeth Anne, MAHons, 2006 - G DUNN, John (M 1987) 1992 - C CAMPBELL, Mrs Elizabeth Muriel, OBE MA (M 1983) 1988 - G CAMPBELL, Wing Commander George, OBE DL FInstLM MIOD RAFVR(T) (M 1997) 2001 - DN ELLINGTON, Baron of Towie Barclay, Marc Floyd, DL (M 1987) 2003 - AB CAMPBELL, Sir Ian Tofts, CBE VRD JP (M 1984) 1986 - ED EMSLIE-SMITH, Donald, MD ChB FRCP FRCPE FSAScot (M 1988) 1992 - AD CAMPBELL of AIRDS, Alastair Lorne, FSAScot (Esq 1986) 1995 - DN ERROLL, The Earl of, 1978 - O CARGILL THOMPSON, Helen Emma Christina, BSc PhD ALA FSAScot (M 1977) 1989 - G ERSKINE, The Reverend The Hon. Michael John, MA BD (Esq 1984) 1994 - F CARMAN, Philip David, CIJ FIDiagE MIIExE MInstLM ACMI, (M 2003) 2008 - G ESPLIN, Frank Lindsay (M1979) 1984 - C CARRUTH, John Aitken (M 1994) 1999 - DG CHISHOLM, Duncan Fraser, JP (M 2003) 2010 - H FALLON, Mrs Silvia Hazel (M1989) 1992 - PK CLELAND, Mrs Elaine Helen, BAcc CA,(M 2003) 2012 - G FANNING, Miss Catherine Heather, MA (M1992) 1997 - ED COLTART, Mrs Inger Christina, FilKand DipLib ALA (M 1994) 1996 - ED FARQUHARSON of INVERCAULD, Captain Alwyne Arthur Compton, MC JP, 1973 - O COOK, Michael, 2000 - DG (tr) FERGUSON, Robert Crichton (M1997) 2001 - C COOK, Major Robert Hugh, RGN, 2008 - ED (tr) FERGUSON-SMITH, Mrs Sheila Ann, (M 2003) 2010 - PK COOK, William Edward (M 1989) 1993 - G FLOYD, James Duffield, BSc PhD EurGeol CGeol FGS FSAScot, (M 2003) 2008 - ED CORBETT, Stephen George, (M 2005) 2013 - G FORBES, Gordon, MBE, (M 2006) 2009- AD COX, Norman Stewart (M 1989) 1992 - PK FORREST, John Addie, AE CEng MIMechE (M1970) 1984 - G CRABB, Norman Cameron (M 1982) 1986 - G FORSYTH, Alistair James Menteith, MTheol LLB FSAScot (Esq 1981 SB 1984) 1989 - Un CRAIB, Alexander John (M 1996) 2006 - H FOWLER, Alexander Hannah, 1998 - Un CRAWFORD, Mrs Catherine Adam (M 1985) 1991 - F FRASER, Robert, DA(Dundee) MA(Warsaw) (M1996) 2000 - F CRICHTON, Alan, MRICS (M 1995) 2006 - AB FRAZER, The Reverend Richard Ernest, BA BD (M 1995) 1998 - ED CROOK, Mrs Agnes Gina, DRSAM (M 1985) 1991 - F FULLERTON, Mrs Gwen Elizabeth,RGN (2006) 2011 - H CROOK, William Roger, DRSAM ARCM (M 1985) 1991 - F FULLERTON, Miss Kirsty Elizabeth, (M 2005) 2010 - H CROOKALL, Simon Philip, MA (M 1989) 1992 - G FULLERTON, Robert, (M 2001) 2009 - H CURRAN, Miss Eileen-Anne Marie-Rose, TD RGN SCM MSc, 1991 - ED (tr) FURNESS, Colonel Simon John, MBE DL, (M 2003) 2009 - ED

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60 61 McGILL, Peter Shearer (M 1984) 1988 - S PATTISON, Dorothy Wilkie, MB ChB (M 1997) 2000 - PK McGREGOR, Mrs Christina Davidson, SRN SCM (M 1992) 1997 - ED PAUL, Mrs Elizabeth Henderson Findlay (M 1999) 2003 - C McINNES, Atholl John, BSc FCIOB FBEng MRICS, (M 2000) 2006 - WL PEARSON, Wayne Thomas, FCILT FILT FCMI, (M 2003) 2006 - ED McKERRELL of HILLHOUSE, Charles James Mure, 1985 - DG (tr) PENDLEBURY, John Barrie, BSc CBiol MIBiol, ( M 2003) 2008 - ED McLAREN, Mrs Christina Forbes (M 1985) 1995 - PK PIRRIE, John Syme ,(M 1984) 1991 - S McLAREN, The Reverend William, MA BD, (M 1998) 2012 - AD PIRRIE, Thomas Syme, JP MInstM MIQA, (M 1981) 1985 - S McLELLAN, David Kenneth, LLB WS (M 1989) 1992 - ED POVER, Major Douglas Brian, MBE GCGI MInstLM, (M 1998) 2008 - PK McNAY, William Gordon, OBE DL JP BL, 1974 - G MENNIE, Thomas Ross, CLJ OMFJ FSAScot ( 2003) 2009 - G RAE, Samuel Irvine (M 2000) 2006 - F MERRETT, Mrs Mary (M 1987) 1996 - F RAE, Sir William, QPM, 2003 - G MIDDLETON, Alexander S (M 1981) 1984 - AD RAFFAN, Ronald Fraser (M 1983) 2001 - AD MILLAN, Mrs Mary Williamson, ACE NFF (M 1994) 2000 - WL RAINEY, Mrs Helen Brown (M 1987) 1991 - G MILLAN, William Ian, MBE DA(Edin) (M 1993) 1998 - WL RAINEY, William (M 1988) 1991 - G MILLAR, Mrs Margaret Adams Forbes, MB ChB (M 1984) 1988 - PK REID, Mrs Enid Barbara Newton, FBID (M 1982) 1985 - G MILLER, Mrs Susan Blanche, MCSP (M 1982) 1985 - ED REID, Hamish Lochhead, LLB (M 1978) 1984 - G MILNE, Peter Sharp, BSc CEng MICE MIHT (M 1993) 1998 - F RENNIE, Mrs Eleanor Margaret (M 1996) 2003 - AD MITCHELL, Mrs Elizabeth Hogg, DCE (M 1988) 1991 - WL REYNOLDS, John Michael, JP, 2006 - AB MITCHELL, Mrs Lilian, RGN RM (M 1991) 1995 - G RICHARDSON, Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Francis, KCB CVO CBE, 1988 - ED MOFFAT, Edward McKinlay (M 1980) 1984 - C RIDDELL, Donald James, MIMgt MMS MRIPHH, (M1999) 2009 - G MONCRIEFF, Mrs Susan Mary (M 1995) 1998 - PK ROADS, Mrs Elizabeth Ann, LVO FSAScot, 1998 - ED MONTROSE, The Duke of, 1978 - DN ROBB, John James (M 2000) 2006 - G MOODIE, William McDougal, CBE QPM (M 1985) 1987 - F ROBERTSON, Miss Aileen Janette, MBE (M 1994) 1996 - ED MOORE, John (M 1986) 1990 - DG ROBERTSON, Ian, FCIPD, MCMI, MBIH FSA(Scot), (M 2003) 2011 - ED MORRIS OF BALGONIE & EDDERGOLL, younger Stuart Gordon Cathal, DipSocSc, FRSA, ROBERTSON, Mrs Robertha Bain (M 1997) 2005 - WL FSAScot, Freeman,City of London, (M2003) 2011 - F ROBINSON, Ernest Thomson, OBE TD MBChB FRCGP DRCOG, 2000 - G MORRISON, Harvey Elmslie, LLB CA (M 1978) 1983 - Un ROLFE, Mervyn James, CBE JP MEd(Hons) FRSA FSAScot, 1996 - AD MOSSON, Alexander Francis, 2000 - G ROSENBLOOM, Captain Geoffrey Harold (M 1978) 1984 - G MOWAT, Donald Arthur Edward, MB ChB FRCGP AFOM (M 1983) 1988 - AD ROSS-SMITH, Mrs June Elizabeth (M 1995) 2001 - H MUNRO, Miss Gillian Lesley,(M 2006) 2013 – G ROXBURGHE, The Duke of, 1978 - ED MURDOCH, David Macleod, BSc BArch(Hons) (M 1997) 2005 - PK RUSSELL, Mrs Elizabeth Lithgow (M 1990) 1995 - C MURNING, John, (M 2008) 2013 - C RUST, Michael Alexander (M 1990) 1998 - AB MURPHY, Mrs Eileen Elizabeth (M 1984) 1996 - ED RUTHERFORD, James Cunninghame, (M 2003) 2010 - G MURRAY, Mrs Louisa Calder, RGN ONC (M 1993) 1997 - H RUTHERFORD, Mrs Marjorie McRobbie, ( M 2003) 2010 - G

NAPIER, Marshall Lindsay (M 1983) 1998 - ED SCOTT, Mrs Alison Lees, (M 2001) 2006 - AD NEIL, Mrs Christina Liddell, (2006) 2013 - G SCOTT, Charles Marshall, LLB (M 1985) 1993 - AB NEVILLE, Professor Adam Matthew, CBE MC TD PhD DSc FRSE FEng, 1983 - O SCOTT, Miss Mary Margaret, MA RGN SCM (M 1993) 1996 - WL NICOL, William Alexander James (M 1966) 1974 - ED SCOTT, Michael, MA BD, 1949 - O NICOLSON, Mrs Hazel Muriel, BCom (M 1974) 1977 - ED SCOTT, Robert, DL JP VMSM MBChB MD FRCSG FRCS(Ed) FSAScot (M 1998) 2001 - G SCOTT, Robert Alexander, JP, 2005 - PK OSBORNE, Mrs Georgiana Louise, BA JP, 2003 - AD SEARIL, Mrs Jean Hill Armour (M 2006) 2012 - G SELLAR, Allan George, OBE JP (M 1982) 1984 - H PATERSON, Alexander (M 1995) 2001 - G SELLAR, William David Hamilton, BA LLB FSAScot FRHists, 2009 - ED PATERSON, Mrs Isobel Donaldson Maxwell, BA DCE, (M 2003) 2006 - ED SHEPHERDSON, William Cowell, MSAAT FSAScot FFB (M 1984) 1990 - S PATERSON, John Hamilton, TD (M 1987) 1989 - C SIM, Mrs Christian (M 1970) 1978 - Un

62 63 SIM, David Robert, MB ChB MRCGP, 1970 - ED WILSON, James Wiseman, OBE (M 1980) 1997 - G SIMPSON, Colonel Neil Victor Ridgley, OBE TD FRIAS, 1974 - H WILSON, Robert Livingstone (M 1987) 1993 - C SIMPSON, William Frank MacFarlane, BSc CEng MICE MIWEM MIIA (M 1984) 1987 - ED WYPER, John Forrester Brown, BSc MB ChB FRCOG, 1970 - AB SINCLAIR, Mrs Dorothy Eleanor, ERD (M 1993) 1996 - PK SKENE, Mrs Alison Jean Katherine, DL MA (M 1987) 1999 - AB YARROW, Sir Eric Grant, Bt MBE DL, 1965 - G SKILLING, Alan John, BA CA (M 1990) 1992 - C YOUNG, Graham John (M 1992) 1996 - WL SLACK, Robin James, JP MIDiagE (M 1994) 1996 - ED SMITH, Mrs Elizabeth Watson Stevenson (M 1981) 1984 - Un MEMBERS (MStJ) SMITH, Iain Jackson, CA (M 1989) 2003 - G SMITH, James, JP BSc, 1972 - G ALLAN, Stephen David, 1998 - Un SMITH, Lady (M 1973) 1978 - PK ALLARDYCE, Isobel Catherine, 1946 - O SMITH, William John (M 2001) 2003 - H ANDERSON, Graham, 1986 - C SMOLLETT of BONHILL, Mrs Georgina Myra Albina Telfer (M 1958) 1961 - DN ARCHIBALD, Michael Andrew, CA, 2003 - PK SPENCE, Mrs Alice Melville (M 1984) 1985 - ED ARCHIBALD, Mrs Rona Margaret, BA, 2005 - PK SPENCER-NAIRN, Christopher Frank, JP MA MBA FCA (M 1997) 2005 - H ARMSTRONG, Adam McCreath, 1999 - G SPENS, John Alexander, MVO RD BA LLB WS, 1988 - DN ASTBURY, Mrs Agnes Hilda, BSc, 1992 - C SQUIRE, Romilly, DA FRSA FSAScot (M 1989) 1991 - ED ATHERFOLD, David, MBA BSc, 1998 - F STEEL, Alison, PgD BSc RGN RM, (M2006) 2013 – G STEPHEN, Peter James, MCIBS, 2009 - AB BAGLOW, Mrs Elizabeth Balfour, 2005 - F STEWART, Mrs Penelope Marion Theodosia, RGN (M 1996) 2001 - DG BAIN, Neil Kynoch, 2006 - AB STIRLING, Mrs Ann Grant (M 1996) 2005 - WL BALFOUR, Major Roderick Andrew Christopher, TD MA MLitt LLB, 1997 - H STIRLING, William Keith, FIOD FILT FIMH AWeldI (M 1989) 2003 - WL BANNERMAN, Mrs Irene, RGN, 1993 - AB SUTHERLAND, Mrs Jeanette (M 1997) 2000 - C BARCLAY, The Reverend Iain Cameron, MBE TD MA BD MTh MPhil PhD, 2006 - AB SUTHERLAND-FISHER, John Mark, LLB(Hons) DipLP NP (M 1988) 1992 - H BARR, Miss Rosemary Milner Fillans, DIPBS, 2011 - G SUTTON, Colin, DFM (M 1984) 1995 - H BARR, William Robin Graham, 1984 - C BEATSON, Andrew George, DA, 2003 - PK TANNAHILL, Andrew Leckie, CEng MIMechE FSAScot (M 1984) 1986 - G BEATSON, Mrs Patricia Anne, 2003 - PK THOMSON, Mrs Aileen Beatrice, CertEd, ( M 2003) 2009 - DG BELL, Dr Niall, BSc(Hons) PhD MIBiol, CBiol, 1999 - AB THOW, Miss Mary Catherine, MA (M 1983) 1986 - F BINGHAM, Mrs Shirley, 2012 - G TORPHICHEN, The Lord, 1978 - WL BINNIE, Mrs Margaret, 1994 - ED TROTTER, Major Alexander Richard, JP FRSA, 2005 - ED BIRSS, The Reverend Alan David, MA BD, 1995 - G BISHARA, Nakhle Edward, 1985 - O URQUHART, Alexander Edwards, TD CEng BSc(Hons) FRINA, (M 2001) 2008 - AB BLACK, The Very Reverend Leonard Albert, 2008 - H WADDELL, Kenneth (M 1987) 1990 - C BRANSON, Alfred James William, FRICS, 1996 - ED WADDELL, Robert Thomson, FBICS (M 1993) 1998 - C BREADEN, The Very Reverend Robert William, Dean of Brechin, 2001 - AD WALLACE, Mrs Evelyn Scott (M 1989) 1993 - G BROWN, Mrs Anne Patricia, 1998 - G WALLACE of CAMPSIE, The Lady, 1974 - G BROWN, Miss Christabelle, MBE BA, 1988 - ED WALLER, Richard Patrick, 1997 - ED BROWN, Mrs Jean, 1978 - WL WARDROPE, Mrs Marion Hammond Hunter (M 1992) 1995 - S BROWN, Mrs Margaret Auld, 2001 - WL WARNER of CRAIGENMADDIE, James Gerald, MA FSAScot, 1970 - G BRUCE, Mrs Isobel, RGN, 1983 - AB WATSON, Mrs Sheena McDougall, RGN SCM, (M 2000) 2008 - G BRYSON, Hugh, 2005 - G WESTMARLAND, The Reverend Colin Andrew, MBE BD (M 1990) 1993 - O BURTON, William Rollin Michael, 2000 - G WILL, Ian Martin, BArch RIBA FRIAS FSAScot (M 1988) 1990 - G BUTCHART, Mrs Euphemia Murie, 1984 - F WILSON, Mrs Anne (M 1999) 2005 - ED BUTLER, Mrs Myra Josephine, 1994 - G WILSON, Mrs Dorothy Johnston (M 1990) 1998 - C

64 65 CAMERON, Gerard James Saunders, 1986 - Un FERGUSON, John Bell, MB ChB MRCPsych BSc, 1996 - WL CAMPBELL, Mrs Aline Margaret, RGN RM, 2012 - G FERGUSSON, Mrs Margaret Hamilton, 1984 - PK CAMPBELL, Alison Marion– MRIPHH REHIS , 2006 - DN FERGUSSON-CUNINGHAME, Mrs Rose-Ann, 2010 - AA CAMPBELL, The Reverend Roderick Duncan MacKenzie, TD BD FSAScot, 1994 - ED FINDLAY, Mrs Margaret Elizabeth, 1980 - DG CAMPBELL, Walter Menzies, CBE PC QC MA LLB MP, 1965 - F FLAVELL, Miss Amy Jane, 1998 - C CANALE-PAROLA, Mrs Leonora Margaret, 1994 - AB FLYNN, Charles Patrick, 1997 - WL CARCARY, James McFarlane, 2005 - PK FORREST, Miss Margaret Ogg Ferguson, 1955 - ED CARSE, Mrs Sybil Oliver, 1971 - ED FRASER, Peter Kerr, MA(Hons) MIMIS, 2000 - AB CATTO, Lady, LLB NP, 1992 - AB FRASER, Roland Lovat, OBE FRAeS, 1986 - AD CAYZER, Nigel Kenneth, 2005 - AD FULTON, Mrs Evelyn, 2000 - DG CHAPPELL, Derek Guy, MIPM, 1992 - AB FYFE, Mrs Mary Rhoda, OBE MCSP, 2003 - F CLARK, Alexander Aitken, JP MB ChB, 1984 - DN COLLIER, John George, 2001 - G GALBRAITH, Alexander, CLJ FSAScot AIMgt, 1982 - G COLMAN, John Haig, ISM, 2008 - F GALLACHER, Daniel Iber, FCCA ATII, 2006 - C COOK, Mrs Margaret, 2012 - ED GALLOWAY, Mrs Isabelle Winifred, RGN ONC, 1991 - ED COUTTS, Herbert, AMA FMA FSAScot, 1977 - ED GARDINER, Peter, FCCA ATII, 1977 - C CRILLY, Mrs Aileen Jean, 1985 - ED GARDNER, Mrs Jean, 2001 - C CUMMING, Fred Leslie, MCIM, 1990 - Un GARDNER,The Reverend Neil Norman, MA BD, 2010 – ED GEDDES, Robert Granger, BEd, 2012 - G DAVIDSON, Mrs Harriet Elizabeth Marjory, SRN, 1959 - O GILHOOLY, Laurence John, Master Mariner FG, 2001 - ED DAVIDSON, Mrs Lorne Montgomery, RGN, 1992 - AB GILLESPIE, Alastair Alfred Bell, 1978 - O DAVIES, Mrs Vera Frances Maclean, 2000 - C GILMOUR, William, 2008 – G DAWSON, William, BSc CEng FIMechE, 1979 - Un GLAZEBROOK, Mrs Diana, 2010 - PK DENHOLM, Alastair Kennedy, FUniv FCIBS FInstP, 1977 - G GOOCH, Mrs Ann Patricia, BSc CCETSW GSCCM, 1995 - AD DICKSON, George Roberts, 1985 - DN GORDON, Andrew David, BSc FBOM DMS, Esq 1971 1976 - AB DICKSON, James Jones MacAuley, BSc DipTE CEng MIMechE, 1985 - G GORDON, David Wilson, BEM, 1983 - Un (tr) DOWNIE, Mrs Elizabeth Mabel, 1996 - O GORDON, Frederick Charles Andrew, DipRMS, 1981 - AB DOWNS, Mrs Christina MacKenzie, 2005 - DN GOURDIE, Mrs May Smith, 1993 - ED DRUMMOND, Mrs Heather Anne, 1987 - G GOURLAY, Andrew, 2003 - AD DRUMMOND, Mrs Violet Agnes Mary Hepburn, DipCOT, 1977 - PK GOWANS, Miss Alana, 2010 - AD DUMBRECK, Mrs Valerie Shand, 1970 - Un GRAY, Mrs Arline Elizabeth Lyons, 1985 - DN DUNBAR, Miss Agnes, MA RGN SCM RNT, 1983 - DN GRAY, Ian Lang Holmes, ACII FCILA, 2001 - G DUNCAN, Mrs Agnes Dickson, 2005 - G GREEN, Mrs Florence Ada, 1984 - F DUNCAN, Anthony Mark,DRSAM PG GSM, 2010 - G GREEN, Major Michael Alan, TD, 2003 - AB DUNCAN, Mrs Rhona Anne, 1986 - S GREEN, Robin Michael, BA PhD FRAS, 1970 - G GRIEVE, Harald Gilbertson, 1993 - G EASTON, David Thomas Ronald, ALA, 1984 - ED ELLINGTON, Mrs Karen Leigh, 1989 - AB HACKETT, William Alfred Anthony, FSAScot, G1 FIRE.E, 2013 - ED ENOS, John Charles, 2008 - DG HAMILTON, Henry Alan Shanks, DA ARIAS RIBA, 1985 - AB HAMILTON, John Patterson, QPM BA(Hons) MBA BSc, 1999 - O FARQUHARSON, Andrew Robert, 1981 - ED HARVEY, William Bruce, 2011 - AD FARQUHARSON, Mrs Angela Pauline, 1978 - ED HAY, Henry, 2005 - DG FENWICK, William Hugh Fenton, CA, 2000 - G HAY, Peter Johnston, 2009 - AD FERGUSON, Mrs Ann Maria, 1997 - O HAY of DUNS, Mrs Aline Mary, MA (Hons), 1906 - ED FERGUSON, Mrs Catriona Roberta, 1997 - C HENERY, Mrs Margaret Agnes Henderson, 1998 - WL

66 67 HIGGINS, Ian, 1997 - O LOWRIE, Mrs Jane, 1990 - Un HILL, Michael Henry James, OBE MA BSc, 2005 - AD LUTTON, Clifford Cuthbert, MB ChB MRCGP, 1984 - ED HILLS, Mrs Lesley Joan, ACIBS, 1988 - O LYE, Mrs Pamela Joyce, 2002 - H (tr) HOGG, Hope Berthe Turner, MB ChB DPM, 1998 - G HOPKINS, Dennis John, 2000 - H MACASKILL, The Reverend Marjory, LLB BD, 1995 - G HOPPER, Mrs Lilias Euphemia, 1965 - ED MacAULAY, Brian John Ballantyne, BVMS MRCVS, 1984 - C HOWARTH, Mrs Jean Leckie, 1996 - O MacBEAN, Colonel Malcolm, MBE, 2011 - H HOWARTH, John Hutcheson, BSc, 1998 - O MacBRIDE, Christopher David, 2008 - AB HOY, Ronald Pullar, 1995 - F MacCALLUM, James Stark, 1978 - WL HUNT, Dorothy Mary, 2012 - AA MACDONALD, Ewen Alexander, 2012 - F HUNTER, Mrs Mary, 1982 - H MacINNES, Angus Neil, 1986 - DN MacINTYRE, Neil MacVicar, 2000 - DG INGRAM, Mrs Helena Adie, 1983 - AB MacKAY, John Ingram, 2013 - H INNES, Mrs Alison Ann, 1997 - ED MACKENZIE, Gordon Andrew, MA FCIS AIIMR MSI FSAScot, 1997 - ED INNES, Mrs Janette Paterson Hart, 2005 - G MacKENZIE, Kenneth, MBE, 1982 - H MACLEAN, Neil Mackinnon, MB ChB FRCGP DMJ, 1980 - G JARVIE, Mrs Anne Marion Russell, 1984 - C MacLEOD, Frederick MacKinlay, CA, 1974 - G JARVIE, James Beaton, 1985 - C MACPHERSON, Mrs Rebecca Amer, 1980 - G JEFFREY, Miss Lily Isobel Hume, FCOT SROT UCCAP, 2000 - O MACRAE, Hugh Charles Edward, MA, 1998 - PK JENNINGS, Kevin Patrick, MB ChB FRCP, 1989 - AB MacRAE, Colonel James Robert, MBE TD, 2003 - PK JERDAN, David, FRICS, 2000 - G MacRAE, Malcolm Charles, BSc(Hons) MSc, 1992 - H JOHNSTON, Robert, 1999 - WL MAIN, Joan Cameron, MB ChB MFCM DPH DA, 1977 - Un JONES, Ian Stewart, BSc, 1984 - AD MAINLAND, William Maxwell, 2003 - ED JONES, Mrs Isabella Moira, 2003 - DG MAIR, Mrs Margaret Isobel Gowans, 1987 - AB MALCOLM, Edward Anderson, 1999 - WL KENDALL, Arthur, 2012 - PK MALLOCH, James McCaig, 1971 - G KENNEDY, Kenneth Donald, MA FSAScot, 2000 - G MANSELL, Philip, 1990 – H (tr) KENNON, William Stanley, 1985 - DN MAR and KELLIE, The Countess of, 1979 - Un KER, Mrs Elizabeth, 1978 - O MARSHALL, Dennis Wiliam, 2006 - WL KINNEAR, Edith Ann Mary Munro, CIWO, 2006 - ED MARSHALL, Harley Hamilton, OBE, 1974 - G KIRKPATRICK, Mrs Isobel Smith, 1981 - C MARSHALL, Mrs Sandra, 2006 - WL KIRKWOOD, Mrs Miriam Stewart, 1980 - DG MARTIN-BATES, Graham Robert, DipEd, 1998 – PK KNIGHT, Mrs Alma Fraser, 1987 - Un MATHEWSON, Mrs Pearl, 2010 - G KNIGHT, Roland Lewis, 1987 - Un MATHEWSON, Stuart James, 2009 – G MATTHEWS, Mrs Margaret Lamont MacDonald, RGN SCM, 1998 - S LAMONT, Malcolm John McKay, 2011 - AB MATTHEWS, Mrs Marlene McCulloch, 1998 - F LANG, Mrs Doreen Marguerite Symington, JP, 1978 - G MAUGHAN, Francis William, Dip Arch, 2011 - AB LATIMER, Stanley Byron Logan, 1982 - DN McDONALD, Edward Graham, BSc DipEd, 1979 - AB LEARMONTH, Stuart McDonald, 2011 - WL McDONALD, Miss Moira Catherine, 1994 - AD LEGGAT, Mrs Christina Crawford, 1973 - G McEWAN, Joan, 2009 – ED LEYLAND, Mark, BScHons, 2003 - DN McEWAN, Murray Robertson, MCPara, 2013 - AD LOGAN, Reverend David Dudley John, BD (Hons) MA, 2013 - AD McFARLANE, Kenneth, 2005 - PK LORIMER, Mrs Judith Eileen, 1974 - G McGILL, Mrs Unity, 1985 - S LOUGHRIDGE, Mrs Jessie Dougall, 1970 - ED McGOWN, Hugh Stuart, 2001 - G LOW, Robert Andrew Lochhead, TD MB ChB FRCSG FRCOG, 1995 - G McGUCKIN, Mrs Janet Hornall, 1973 - Un

68 69 McHALE, Mrs Margaret, 1993 - ED OLIVER, Stewart Mason, 2005 - S McHARDY, Mrs Carolyn, 1988 - S ORR, Stuart, 1987 - G McINTYRE, Ranald Ewen, 1998 - PK OSWALD, Edwin Thomas, 2000 - AD McKENNA, Alan Lawrence, 1994 - ED McKENZIE, Justice Donald Cameron Moffat, JP FFA FIM, 1978 - PK PAGAN, Charles William, MBE DL TD BA LLB FRSA WS, 2001 - F McKINLEY, James, JP BA MCII, 1983 - DN PAISLEY, Peter Craig, OBE, 1974 - DN McLEAN, David Logan, FSAScot, 2003 - WL PARK, Mrs Mary Murray, RGN, 1983 - G McMAHON, Anthony, HNC Dental Technology, 2003 - AB PARKER-JERVIS, Mrs Marigold Elizabeth, 2006 - H McMAHON, Mrs Janette Blair, 1999 - DG PARSONS, Ronald Albert, 2003 - F McMASTER, Major William Crawford, 2005 - H PATERSON, Mrs Ann, 1989 - Un McMILLAN, Andrew, 1979 - G PATERSON, Mrs Catherine Brydie, 1984 - Un McMILLAN, Ronald, 1972 - Un PATERSON, John Moore, JP MA Hons, 2006 - C McNAY, Mrs Margaret Crawford, 1976 - G McQUEEN, Ferguson, QVMSM, 1995 - AB PATTERSON, David Wemyss, 1977 - AB McROBBIE, Ian Simpson, MB ChB MRCGP FFOM DIH DObstRCOG, 1989 - ED (tr) PAUL, John Findlay Russell, BA CA, 1999 - C McSPORRAN, Duncan, BA, 2010 - G PEARCE, John, FIMgt, 2003 - C McVITTIE, Stuart, 2009 - DG PEAT, Dr Robert, BA Hons, PhD, 2012 - F McWHANNELL, Wilfred Alan, FISTC FSAScot, 2003 - G PENN, Mrs Myra, 1988 - F MENZIES, Mrs Sheila Rachel, 1977 - Un PETERKIN, Mrs Rachel Mary, JP, 2001 - F MESSER, Mrs Mary Wood, RGN RFN, 1999 - C POWELL, Damon St John, 2003 - AB MIDDLETON, Mrs Yvonne Marjorie, 1984 - AD PRENTICE, Donald Kerr, BSc CertEd DipPsych MSc, 2005 - H MILLAR, Geoffrey Thomas, MB ChB FRCSEd FRCOphth, 1993 - F PRICE, Mrs Anne McLachlan, BSc PG Dip RGN, 2011 – G MILLER, Paul George Joseph, 1980 - AB PRICE, Gordon, 2010 - G MILLER, Roger Ogilvy Stewart, BSc FCIOB, 1989 - ED PRINCE, Roger Michael, 1985 - ED MITCHELL, Michael James, 2001 - AD PROCTOR, John Taylor, BA(Edin), 2003 - ED MITCHELL, William Thomson, 1974 - C PROVAN, James, 2006 - WL MONTGOMERY, Miss Nanette Duncan Whyte, 1987 - C PURSER, David Herbert, TD MA, 1998 - AB MORE, Callum, 1995 - Un MORELLI, Mrs Christine, 1996 - C RAE, Alan, FTC AMIMI CertEd, 1999 - AB MORGAN, Mrs Audrey Wannan, 2006 - F RAMSAY, Mrs Margaret Elizabeth, 2003 - AD MORRIS, Miss Agnes Robertson, 1995 - ED RAMSDEN, Rev Iain Ronald, BTh, 2011 - H MORRISON, Miss Elena, 1984 - Un REDMOND, Robert Roy, 1991 - G MOUTREY, David, 2005 - S REID, Joseph Robert, 2006 - G MOWAT, Mrs Eileen Stark, 2000 - AD REID, Robert Brown, CA, 1987 - G MOYES, Miss Caroline Inglehart MacDonald, 1984 - DN REID, Stephen James, FCSD, 1994 - G MUIR, Mrs Margaret Evelyn, 1958 - G RENNIE, David Edward Gavin, 2006 - H MUNRO, Mrs Margaret Bartholomew, 2006 – G REYNOLDS, Helen Christie, 2006 - AB MURDOCH, Rev John Alastair Hilton, 2011 -F RICHMOND, Henry William, FRSA FSAScot CQSW, 1978 - ED MURPHY, John Storrar, MA, 1971 - C RIDDELL, Michael James, 1998 - AB MUSHET, Andrew, 2009 - G RIDDICK, William Scott, 1999 - G RILEY, Gordon Douglas, SRpara, 1995 - AB NEILSON, Mrs Lily Simpson Roger, 1993 - ED ROBERTSON, Alexander, 1984 - C NEVILLE, Mary Hallam, BA MEd PhD, 1986 - O ROBERTSON, Mrs Enid Mary, 1986 - C NICOL, Douglas Carnegie, 1998 - AD ROBERTSON, George Slessor, MD FRCA, 1985 - AB NOTMAN, Thomas Ewan, 2005 - ED ROBERTSON, Norman Cattanach, 1979 - AB

70 71 ROBERTSON, Mrs Vivienne Jane Margaret, 2010 - ED STUART, Mrs Linda Ann, 1986 - Un ROBINSON, Mrs Penelope Helen Thom, MA, 1987 - G RODGER, Miss Jean Lennox, 1980 - DN TANKARD, Mrs Ann MacLeod Lightbody, MA, 2001 - F ROLLO, David Bruce MacIntosh, LLB NP WS, 1980 - F TANTON, Michael, 2003 - O ROME, John, 1990 - G TAYLOR, Allan Watson, BSc(Hons) PhD ACA, 2006 - AB ROME, Mrs Lindsey, 1991 - G TAYLOR, Douglas Hunter, 2006 - G RORIE, Major Paul Andrew, TD BD GCGI MCollT FLastLM FSA Scot, 2011 – AB TAYLOR, Edward Graham Macdonald, 1982 - G ROSS, Clive Ritchie, FCii, 2012 - AD TAYLOR, Mrs Hilda May, 1982 - O ROSS, Frederick, 2008 – G TAYLOR, Matthew Charles, 1982 - O ROSS, Mrs Kathryn Margaret Greig, FSAScot, 1987 - AD TAYLOR, Mrs Nancy Christine, 1996 - AD RUSSELL, George McLaren Bell, Esq 1986 1989 - C TELFER, Miss Mary West, 1978 - G RUSSELL, William Grant, 2006 - H THOMSON, David Martin, DipT.P MRTPI, 2013 - DG THOMSON, Mrs Jean, MBE, 2003 - AD SANDILANDS, Mrs Annie Christina, 1990 - WL THORBURN, Mrs Margaret, 1985 - C SCOTT, Mrs Helen Diack, MCSP, 1906 - DG THORBURN, Stanley Russell, 1984 - C SCOTT, James, CA, 2000 - AD THORNHILL, Mrs Sarah Ann, DipEd, 1994 - DG SCOTT, Mrs Janette Johnstone Chalmers, SRN SCM BTA HV, 1997 - G TILLING, Mrs Margaret Meriel, MA, 1997 - ED SCOTT, Mrs Kathleen, 2000 - AD TULLOCH, Keith Farquhar, CA, 2010 - AA SCOTT, Peter Borthwick, DipEd AIBScot, 1999 - ED SHANKS, Robert McDonald Johnston, , 1988 - H WALKER, Mrs Ellen Meek Chalmers Prentice Sinclair, RGN, 2006 - DG SHARP, Mrs Muriel Anne, 1999 - AD WALKER, Joseph Muir, AMBIM, 1987 - Un SHERMAN, David, MBE, 2010 - PK WALKER, William, 1972 - AB SHIRLAW, Miss Ellison Fargie, 1978 - G WALLACE, Mrs Kathleen Elizabeth, RGN SCM NDNCert, 2000 - DG SIM, Mrs Mary Gillespie Adam, RGN, 1997 - ED WALTON, Mrs Carole, 1983 - G SIMANDI, Mrs Ann, MA, 2006 - F WARD, The Reverend William Francis, 1981 - AD SKILTON, Mrs Joan Margaret, 1968 - ED WARWICK, Mrs Christine Margaret, 1986 - PK (tr) SLATER, Michael Brian, BEng AMIEE, 1972 - AB WATSON, Derek John, 2006 - C SMITH, Mrs Sheila R, DipCE, 1997 - WL WATSON, Kenneth Matthew, 2000 - WL SMITH, Miss Sheila Stewart, 1988 - AB WATSON, Mrs Valerie Stewart Massie, 2003 - WL SOMERVILLE, Miss Moira Collis, BA, 1997 - WL WATT, James Richard, MA, 1976 - O SOMMERVILLE, Mrs Jean Buchanan, 2010 - G WAY, Baron of Plean George Alexander, LLB(Hons) FRSA FSAScot SSC NP, 1999 - ED SORBIE, Gavin, 1998 - S WEBSTER, Kenneth McDonald James, 1998 - AB SOUTH, Mrs Sandra, MBE, 1984 - H WEBSTER, Hon Mr Justice Robin Maclean, MBE RD BA(Cantab) FCIArb, 2012 - PK SOWTER, Mrs Margaret Jean, 1997 - C WIGHT, Mrs Doris, 1994 - ED SPENCE, Mrs Hazel Murray, 2006 - AD WIGHTON, Brenda Kidd, 2009 – AD SPRENT, Professor Janet Irene, BSc PhD ARCS, 1982 - F WILL, Michael George Arthur, MBE, BTh MEd FRSA FCOT , 2011 - AB STEDWARD, Alexander, 1988 - Un WILKIE, Brian Bennet, 1980 - AD STEDWARD, Mrs Moira, 1986 - Un WILLIAMS, Mrs Mary Smith, 1990 - DG STEVEN, Harold Andrew Maclean, L.Th FSAScot, 2010 - G WILLIAMS, Mrs Muriel Joan, 2008 - ED STEVENSON, Russell Gray, BSc(Hons) PhD, 1999 - AB WILSON, Mrs Elizabeth Alice, OBE BSc RGN RGM, 2003 - DG STEWART,Alexander James, BA (Hons), 2013 - PK WILSON, John Gordon, 2005 - ED STEWART, James, 1998 - AD WISHART, David, 2001 - F STEWART, Joyce Margarert, 1983 - AB WOODS, Peter Alwyn, MBE FIPD, 1990 - DN (tr) STEYN, Mrs Daphne Mary, BA, 1987 - AB WOOLLEY, Charles, 2010 - H STRAUBE, Gordon Alexander, 2006 - H WOOLLEY, Ian, 2009 - H

72 73 WYLLIE, Gordon Malcolm, LLB NP FSAScot TEP WS, 1999 - G Brigadier Iain Scott Taylor OBE KStJ TD Iain Scott Taylor was admitted as a Member of the Order in 1993 and became Association YARROW, Lady, JP, 1985 - G Committee Chairman for the Angus Area from that year until 1997, when he took over as Order YOUNG, Miss Caroline Rosemary Vida, HND, 2000 - Un Committee Chairman for the Angus and Dundee Area, a post he held until 2002, becoming YOUNG, Mrs Joyce Marguerite, 1976 - G Honorary Vice-President from 2007 until 2012. He was promoted through the grades to Officer of the Order in 1995, a Commander in 1999 ESQUIRES and to Knight in 2006. In 1996, he joined Priory Chapter and became Standard Bearer. A post he held until 2002 when he became Director of Ceremonies. He stood down from this post in CAMPBELL, George, 1998 – DN 2009 and remained on Priory Chapter until 2012.

RUSSELL, George Lithgow, 1998 - C RUSSELL, Stuart Alexander, 1998 – C IN GRATEFUL MEMORY

The deaths of the following Order members are recorded with deep regret and with gratitude for the support they gave to the Order: IN GRATEFUL MEMORY Robert Ross BEST Sydney George Wilson Cooper KStJ Ailsa Jean BLAIR Sid was admitted to the Order as a Serving Brother in 1978 and immediately became involved in the work of Central Area. He rose through the ranks culminating in his promotion to Knight Aileen BUCHANAN in 1996. He played a large part in the refurbishment of the property which became Sir Andrew Beatrice Annie BURGESS-WINN Murray House in Strathyre, Holiday Home for the Blind, Disabled and Elderly. Then from 1991 Robert BURNETT to 1993 he played a big part in the planning, building and the opening of Archibald Russell Sidney George Wilson COOPER Court - the St John Retirement Complex at Polmont. He became Convener of the complex and devoted himself to the welfare of the residents. He remained in the post until 2006. Along Lord FRASER of CARMYLLIE with these duties Sid held the post of chairman of the Central St John Association from 1992 James William DELANEY to 1995 and Order Committee Vice-Chairman from 1992 to 2006. He was invited to join Priory Mary Eleanor FYFE Chapter in 1996 and served until 2004. Sid provided stalwart service to St John Scotland and will be sadly missed by all. John Martin LINDESAY-BETHUNE Donald Anderson MacLEAN Mrs Jeanette Smith DStJ Avril Taylor RENNIE Jeanette Smith was a Member of St John Central Area spanning 30years. She moved up to Jeanette SMITH Order member and then Commander before being promoted to Dame in 2003. Jeanette entered enthusiastically into the running of Fetes, Stalls at Agricultural Shows, Coffee Mary Elizabeth STARK mornings, always with good ideas for raising funds for St John. A wonderful organiser she and Iain Scott TAYLOR her cousin Joyce began the ‘Sherry Party’ which came to be held every August for 20years and Margaret Thomson Allardyce WILLIAMSON was much looked forward to by all members of Central Area. When Archibald Russell Court Phyllis Helen WYLIE was being built in 1992/3 Jeanette gladly gave assistance regarding the soft furnishings and decoration. Jeanette also had a busy social life and promoted St John where ever she went. She told the story of how when attending St James Palace for her inauguration to Dame she found herself in the company of Nelson Mandela and had a chat. Jeanette was always a ground-breaker and as a young woman became a model for many well-known fashion houses where her beauty and style were sought by photographers.

74 75 2013 IN PICTURES . . . The Neonatal Ambulance handover

August 21 saw the handover of the “Crichton Ambulance” by St John Scotland to the Scottish Neonatal Transport Service (See also Page 19). Here are some more pictures of a day in which the Dunphy family twin babies Kyle and Lewis, who owe their lives to the service, were the ‘Show stealers’.

76 2013 IN PICTURES . . . and in other news

The Grand Council meets Tayside St John Mountain Rescue Base The Grand Council met at Newport in Wales opening for three days in May. Discussion centred on In September St John Scotland handed over the new Maternal, Newborn and Child Health the 13th Mountain Rescue Base donated Programme “Mama na Mwama” and key so far to the voluntary service. Chancellor issues of governance. Douglas Dow was in Blairgowrie to perform the official opening (See also page 15).

The opening of the latest St John Mountain Rescue base is marked by a plaque.

Chancellor Douglas Dow with (left) The Chancellor unveils the plaque. Eric Drummond, chairman of Tayside Mountain Colin MacDougall, the police team Rescue: “Base is a Godsend” leader, and Stuart Johnston, leader of the civilian team.

Families, friends and supporters joined in the celebration. Chancellor’s perk: Getting aboard a tracked, all-terrain rescue vehicle. Designed by: www.thepuffinroom.co.ukDesigned by: Printed by Winter & Simpson

THE CHANCERY OF THE PRIORY OF SCOTLAND ST JOHN’S HOUSE, 21 ST JOHN STREET EDINBURGH EH8 8DG

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Telephone: 0131 556 8711 E-mail: [email protected] Website:www.stjohnscotland.org.uk Order Website:www.orderofstjohn.org