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Obituaries - February 2024

15th February 2024

FRASER FINLAYSON BRUCE, (retired solicitor), Grantown-on-Spey

On 15th December 2023, Fraser Finlayson Bruce, one-time employee of Highland Regional Council, Inverness. 

AGE: 92                                                                                             ADMITTED: 1956

WILLIAM GORDON BOYLE, (retired solicitor), Dundee

On 23rd July 2023, William Gordon Boyle, formerly partner of the firm Boyles, Dundee, and latterly consultant of the firms Boyles Solicitors, Dundee, and Bell Brodie Ltd, Forfar.

AGE: 71                                                                                             ADMITTED: 1977

JOHN YULE ADAMSON CARLTON, (retired solicitor), Dunfermline

On 12th January 2024, John Yule Adamson Carlton, formerly partner and latterly consultant of the firm Allan McDougall & Co, Edinburgh.

AGE: 102                                                                                           ADMITTED: 1950

PETER WILLIAM JOHNSTON, (retired solicitor), Peterborough

On 24th November 2023, Peter William Johnston, formerly employee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and latterly employee of the Procurator Fiscal Service, both Edinburgh.

AGE: 80                                                                                             ADMITTED: 1968

PHILIP SYDNEY TASKER, Kilmarnock

On 23rd December 2023, Philip Sydney Tasker, sole partner of the firm Duncan McLean & Co, Kilmarnock.

AGE: 57                                                                                             ADMITTED: 1991

 

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