Obituaries

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From grassroots golf to head of PGA, Sandy Jones left his mark

In the days since his passing at the age of 75, the tributes have piled in for Sandy Jones. “We’ve done nothing but answer messages of condolence from all over the golfing world,” said Alan White, the chairman of the Professional Golfers’ Association.

Opinion Brian Wilson: Now is the time for a root and branch review of our health service

Obituary: Henry Murray, Honorary Consul for Republic of Tunisia for nearly 40 years

Obituary: Anna McCurley, ex-MP whose remarkable spirit for life defied her ill-health

Andy Maciver: The only way to save the NHS is to allow it to be changed

Obituary: Dan McCafferty, distinctive lead singer with Scottish rock group, Nazareth

Obituary: Rab Noakes, hugely influential figure in Scotland's music scene

Obituary: Elizabeth Stewart, singer who carried her Scots Traveller heritage overseas

Obituary: Alasdair McKee, housing activist who stayed true to his deeply-held values

Obituary: Professor Alastair Fowler, renowned expert on Renaissance literature

Obituary: Leslie Phillips, veteran actor whose career ranged from Carry On films to serious roles on stage and screen

Agenda: How Stem learning can help the budding entrepreneur

Obituary: Dr Brian Dicks, academic whose masterful command of detail was reflected in his books on Greece

Obituary Ian Jack, outstanding journalist who in taut and evocative prose recalled Britain's past

Obituary: Bill McLellan, top-class athlete whose 1964 Sprint triumph led to a £10,000 windfall

Obituary: Fordyce Maxwell, distinguished journalist and broadcaster who combined his long career with farming

Obituary: Carmen Callil, publisher whose Virago Press transformed the literary landscape

Obituary: Sir Bruce Pattullo, who greatly enhanced reputation of the Bank of Scotland

Obituary: Pat Liney, goalkeeper in Dundee's First Division title-winning team in 1962

Obituary: Robbie Coltrane, iconic Scottish actor and giant of stage and screen

Obituary: Angela Lansbury, gifted actress whose success ranged across stage, film and television

Obituary: Alison Brady, PA to newspaper editors who became lynchpin of The Herald operation

Obituary: Alan Wilkins, playwright and teacher

Obituary: Peter Tilbrook, conservationist and Antarctic ecology pioneer

Obituary: Roger Guthrie, conservationist who was famed as “the conscience of Glasgow”

Obituary: Erlend Brown, painter and print-maker who was the first curator of Orkney’s Pier Arts Centre

Obituary: Norman Douglas, choreographer whose dance-making instincts defied the passing of time

Obituary: Drew Busby, striker who was a firm favourite with fans of Airdrie and Hearts

Obituary: Robert Clow, irrepressible driving force behind the chain of John Smith's bookshops

Obituary: Dr John Dall, esteemed pioneer in geriatric medicine

Determined, dependable and dignified: The life and reign of Queen Elizabeth

Obituary: Frank Pottinger, sculptor and printmaker renowned for his groundbreaking work in geometric abstraction

Obituary: Pat Walker, innovative BBC Scotland executive who devised The Beechgrove Garden

Obituary: Lady Butter, lifelong friend of the Queen and a descendant of the Russian poet, Pushkin

Obituary: Dr James Macaulay, a most remarkable writer, architectural historian and lecturer

Obituary: Gordon Cockburn, remarkable artist who was profoundly moved by a visit to Auschwitz

Obituary: Ross Stenhouse, actor who inhabited his character roles with conviction and subtlety

Obituary: Andrew Leigh, renowned theatre manager who worked at the Citizens, Traverse, and the Old Vic

Obituary: Bobby Hope, Scot who won the FA Cup and League Cup with West Brom

Obituary: Dr Ernest Bennie, distinguished Consultant Psychiatrist

Obituary: Olivia Newton-John, who found global stardom playing Sandy in the film version of Grease

Obituary: Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt Uhura in Star Trek and was key to its message of diversity

Obituary: Joyce Laing, art-therapy pioneer who helped transform the lives of prisoners in Barlinnie's Special Unit

Obituary: David Campbell, hugely skilled businessman who prospered in newspapers and in public service

Obituary: Joan Lingard, prolific author best-known for her Kevin and Sadie novels, set in Belfast

Obituary: James Watt, superb marine artist who chronicled the Clyde and co-founded the Glasgow Group

Obituary: Andy Goram, one of the all-time great goalkeepers in British football

Obituary: Ian McCormack, journalist who edited the West Highland Free Press for 44 years

Obituary: Peter Brook, world-class theatre director who left a peerless legacy

Obituary: Stanley Thomson, widely admired and remarkably versatile musician

Obituary: Davie Wilson, winger who scored 164 goals for finest Rangers team of post-war era

Obituary: Brian McCluskey, fluent linguist who became head of the EU’s translation service

Obituary: Anda Paterson, painter and co-founder of the influential Glasgow Group

Obituary: Alex Beaton, Glaswegian folk-singer who found fame in America