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.