Issue 3078: Gordon Thomson

Object

Return to Shieldaig (Dance)

Submitter

Lesley Thomson

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Priority

Normal

Disposition

Ignored

Description

My husband Gordon Thomson died unexpectedly of sepsis in Inverness ICU on October 18th 2022, aged 74. At the funeral tea at a hotel in Inverness dancers from the Inverness RSCDS branch danced another of his dances Gillian’s Strathspey named after a dance teacher and friend of ours. Gordon was a qualified Scottish Country Dancing teacher who started a class at Felixstowe in Suffolk before we retired to the Isle of Skye in 2009 where we danced with the Skye branch. Being a mathematician he enjoyed composing complicated dances - a five couple dance called Lesley’s Medley became known as Lesley’s Mudlley because it was so complicated. He was very proud that his dances are now danced worldwide and that Return to Shieldaig will be danced at the Inverness Highland Ball this month.

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