Corporate insurance broker Douglas Smith organised a golf day with friends and colleagues at Archerfield Links to mark his retirement.
Enjoying the day’s play at the East Lothian course, and a meal in the clubhouse, were a number of veteran figures from the Scottish business community.
They included lawyer Alastair Dickson, the former Royal Bank of Scotland executive Leith Robertson, former Rangers chairman Malcolm Murray and ex-Hearts manager Jim Jefferies.
DB Media services photographer Terry Murden, also editor of Daily Business, was invited to record the day.
An interview with Doug Smith appears here
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Hi Doug
Happy retirement to you. I just picked up your article reviewing Peebles Golf club for possible outing later this year. Have many happy memories of you and your wife when we first came up to Edinburgh both in business with Bowmaker Finance and our cricket together at Holycross. Remember going down to Open golf with you when Sevi won. Sadly, I lost Margaret to dementia in January this year after a long illness.
I’m still playing golf and remember our Sunday mornings. Retired from cricket 20 yrs ago, but had a good innings.
Doug,
Hopefully you’ll remember me but if not I can still remember the day we played the Olympic club and you were packing your golf bag. The reason I am writing you after these many years is that my son Mike Ryan is in the insurance business with a company called Risk Strategies and he’ll be traveling to London sometime in March. I’m uncertain as to where you’re located but if it’s London I would ask Mike to see if he could introduce himself to you. Personally, I’ve been retired for 26 years now after OCLI was acquired by JDS Uniphase. Hopefully you’ll receive this message and rekindle an old relationship.
My best to you
Jeff Ryan