Great Scot - The Scotch Family Magazine - Issue 151 September 2017 GreatScot_Internal_Sept_2017_FA | Page 96

Obituaries
to Melbourne, he eventually
completed his Bachelor of
Commerce studies at Melbourne
University, and from 1959 spent
11 years in Sydney, as general
manager of the authorised money
market dealers at Capel Court
Corporation.
He returned to Melbourne in
1970 as executive director of Capel
Court, and became chairman
of the Australian Merchant
Bankers’ Association. Murray
returned to Were’s as a partner in
1982, managing its fixed interest
business. For 20 years until
retiring in 1998 he served on the
Australian Foundation Investment
Company’s board. Murray was a
Fellow of the Australian Institute of
Company Directors, and lectured
in courses for organisations such
as the Financial Services Institute of
Australasia.
Murray’s passion was his
faith. At 27 he was ordained a
Presbyterian elder, and served for
55 years. In retirement he served
the church’s growing, multi-ethnic
Clayton congregation, including
South Sudanese refugees. He
taught English to migrants, maths
to their children, and was a
Kids’ Hope mentor and religious
education teacher in three
state primary schools. Hosting
international students resulted in
staying with their families in several
countries, including South Sudan,
Kosovo, Botswana, Kenya, Europe
and China.
On 24 July 1971 Murray
married Elizabeth Anne Hare at St
Stephen’s Presbyterian Church,
Surrey Hills. Their children included
sons at Camberwell Grammar
School, and they had many
grandchildren.
Murray died on 1 April 2017.
PATON, Michael
Scott (’53)
Michael’s brother
Geoff (SC
1946-57) wrote:
Michael Scott
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Paton was born at St Andrew’s
Hospital, East Melbourne on
10 September 1935, the son
of Maxwell Scott Paton (born 7
February 1909, SC 1920-26, died
6 April 2003). His grandfather
James Scott Paton (born 26
November 1875, SC 1885-93, died
25 February 1939) also attended
Scotch, as did 14 other of Michael’s
forebears.
The first child christened in the
Littlejohn Memorial Chapel, on 25
October 1936, was Michael.
He attended Scotch College
from 1942 to 1953 and was an
excellent student, winning several
prizes and playing sport for
Gardiner (later Gilray) House. He
joined the 1st Hawthorn Scout
Group in the Senior School and,
like most things he attempted,
was enthusiastic and competent,
becoming Acting Assistant Scout
Master of Third Troop. In 1952 he
received his King’s Scout Badge
and won the N C Elliott Prize for
Scouting. Michael was a 1953
Probationer.
Michael attended Melbourne
University and graduated with
a Bachelor of Mechanical
Engineering in 1957. He continued
scouting in the Old Scotch Rover
Crew and enjoyed bushwalking,
a lifelong pastime. He went to
England in 1958, having accepted
a two-year post-graduate training
offer with W H Allen & Son Ltd in
Bedford. In June 1960 he returned,
this time to Sydney where his father
and the rest of the family had been
transferred in 1958. Michael worked
with International Combustion Ltd
on the construction of boilers for
power stations.
On 6 March 1964 Michael
married Wendy Jeanette Milner at
St. Mark’s Church, Darling Point,
New South Wales, and they settled
at St Ives and raised a family. They
later moved to Pymble. Wendy died
on 29 April 2011.
Michael retired as senior
consultant to Transfield Power
following its takeover of Ical.
In retirement he continued
bushwalking with his numerous
friends, in the high country of
Victoria and New South Wales.
Michael died on 24 May 2017 at
the Royal North Shore Hospital, St
Leonards, New South Wales, as
the result of a heart attack.
SIMPSON, Colin
Scott (’51)
Colin’s brother,
David (SC
1941-46), wrote:
Colin Scott
Simpson was born
at Surrey Hills on 18 September
1932, and attended Glen Iris State
School, then Scotch from 1943 to
1949. Other relatives included his
brother Brian (SC 1946-56), cousins
Lyndon Priestley Simpson (born
26 November 1921, SC 1934-36,
died 10 March 1945 in World War
II) and Ronald Colenso Simpson
(born 7 May 1925, SC 1934-41, died
22 January 1992) and nephews
Christopher (SC 1985-90) and
Nicholas (SC 1987-92).
Although not a great scholar,
Colin’s schooling in maths, English
and accountancy served him well.
Having a congenial personality,
Colin made many friends and
generally enjoyed life at Scotch.
He looked splendid in his kilt in
the Cadet Quarter Guard. He
enjoyed playing cricket and football,
including in the 1949 2nd XVIII.
He later played football with Old
Scotch.
While playing football for St
Mark’s, Camberwell, Colin met a
teammate’s sister, Joan Elizabeth
Kefford, known as Elizabeth, whom
he married at St Mark’s Anglican
Church, Camberwell, on 29
October 1955. They celebrated their
60th wedding anniversary with their
children and grandchildren.
Colin worked with a ships’
chandler, then Australian Paper
Mills, before joining the family
cosmetics firm, Simpson’s
Manufacturing. There he spent
much of his working life, specialising
in box making and packaging. He
subsequently worked for companies
involved in food importing and
packaging, then ran the ‘House of
Knobs’ in Union Road, Surrey Hills,
selling door and fireplace furniture.
A regular player with Old
Scotch Tennis Club, Colin was club
president for 21 years, captained one
of the teams in the Public Schools’
Tennis Association competition and
proudly received an OSCA Merit
Award for services to OSCA tennis
in 2013.
The Anglican Holy Trinity Parish in
Surrey Hills was significant in Colin’s
life, and he was active in Brunswick
Rotary, Glenferrie Probus, and the
Australian Institute of Packaging. He
enjoyed bushwalking with a group
of blokes