top of page

Obituary - Anderson, Andrew - 3/7/03

Andrew Anderson, aged 90, the retired Senior Partner of Messrs Melrose & Porteous, Solicitors, Coldstream. He was apprenticed to Messrs James & George Collie in Aberdeen in the mid 1930s, and qualified as a Solicitor. He narrowly escaped capture at St. Valery and spent the remainder of the war as a Captain in the Royal Army Pay Corps in this country. After demobilization he looked around for suitable openings for a career in law and in 1952 he joined Messrs Melrose & Porteous. He retired in 1984 as the Senior Partner of that firm and stayed in the area. He was predeceased by his wife in 1990.

Recent Posts

See All

Obituary - McClory, Colin - 27/6/18

Colin was born in 1951 and died in hospital on 27 June 2018. He is survived by Tricia and two adult children Helen and Ian. Colin was a member of the Procurator Fiscal Service for many years until his

Obituary - McNicoll - 17/8/12

Alexander Leonard McNicoll died on 17 August, aged 86. He was born in Glasgow in 1926, married Catherine Helen Morrison (born in Glasgow in 1929) in 1954, graduated MA, LLB and joined the SSC Society

Obituary - Scott, Phil - 10/11/12

Phil Scott died suddenly at his home in Dundee on 10 August, aged 60. He was born in Huddersfield in 1952 but moved to Perth with his family at the age of four. He married Jennifer Findlay (born at Ca

bottom of page