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Iain Lochhead

Obituary of Iain Lochhead, Burns devotee; born June 20, 1946; died January 19, 2008. Iain Lochhead, who has died at home in Spain aged 61, was a former president of the St Andrews Burns Club and a man whose enthusiasm, commitment and energy breathed new life into it. He joined in the mid-1970s, served as president 1983-84 and was made an honorary life member in recognition of his service. In 2002, Lochhead was invited back to St Andrews from his new home in Marbella to propose the Immortal Memory for a second time, an honour only previously given to the celebrated local journalist, playwright and founder of the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, A B Paterson, who proposed the principal toast in both 1949 and again in 1982.

He and his wife, Liz, moved to the south of Spain in 1993. There he became head maths teacher at the Aloha College in Marbella.

Mr Lochhead was an elder in the Church of Scotland in Fuengirola, and he and Liz were both members of the Marbella Town Choir, performing regularly at concerts, theatres and weddings throughout Andalucia.

Full story at The Herald.