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Gordon writing to Peter Dixon in 2017:
Before retiring to Skye in 2009 I had danced in Suffolk and surrounding areas for about 20 years. Gillian's Strathspey was devised for Gillian Barella who taught a class in Nacton, Suffolk.
Ask Miriam and Return to Shieldaig were devised in memory of Miriam Lochner, who you probably knew as she danced a lot in Cambridge. (Return to Shieldaig reflects her elegance in dance; Ask Miriam reflects her fun in dance).
An T-Uibhisteach Tapaidh was written for the 60th birthday of Calean Maclean, ‘an agile man from Uist’, who dances at our class in Skeabost on Skye. A local musician, Blair Douglas, wrote four new tunes for Calean’s dance and recorded them.

Lesley Thomson sent the following in March 2023 (issue 3077):
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.