HASSLE IN THE CASTLE
Good morrow. Many of the elderly personnel in the DDP belonged to a different era, but it’s exceptionally rare for one to carry the spirit of half a millennium ago. Castle-restoring Scottish medievalist Raymond Stanley Morris, AKA the Laird of Balgonie, has fallen in the moat aged 92. Looking something like Santa Claus in a kilt, he became noted for his expertise on ancient Scots traditions such as heraldry and codes of chivalry. In the late 60s he refashioned the ancient mill of Eddergoll as his workshop, where he painted coats-of-arms and made daggers, and turned its garden shed into a budgie aviary.
His magnum opus began in the 80s, when he made the 14th-century Balgonie Castle his humble abode. So mighty was the undertaking that the castle, abandoned for centuries, still isn’t fully restored today. Progress has been impressive, nevertheless – the castle was able to host weddings by 1989, and it’s since been used as an education centre and a rescue for Scottish deerhounds. And Morris’s reservoir of Scottish tradition wisdom won’t go to waste with his death, as he was always keen to share his historical knowhow.
Morris was a unique pick for Pan Breed’s interesting oldies B team Here’s Who You Could Have Won. At first no obit was forthcoming, but surely enough a knight in shining armor came to DDP Towers and presented the needed parchment. Or the Times got to him in their backlog. Either or.
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