This lad was featured on this evenings Radio 4's 'Last Word' https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d5q4
He was a member of the Edinburgh Chess Club in the 1950's.
(His wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hamilton_(advocate))
Ian Hamilton 1925-2022 (BBC 'Last Word')
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Re: Ian Hamilton 1925-2022 (BBC 'Last Word')
There was a time when Ian Hamilton would have been one of the most famous citizens in Scotland, chiefly for his one exploit, which read like something out of a John Buchan thriller, but in later years he seemed to be largely forgotten. Perhaps the return of an Lia Fàil to Edinburgh Castle reduced any lingering sense of injustice.
My mother used to live round the corner from him – which reminds me that his Wikipaedia article doesn’t appear to mention his tangential involvement in what has become known as the Mull Air Mystery, one of Scotland’s more recent unsolved puzzles, when he had rented out his plane without checking the pilot’s credentials, only for the said pilot to take the plane for a late night joy-ride from Glen Forsa airstrip on Mull, never to return. (This was 25 years to the day since the Westminster Abbey incident). The pilot’s body was found months later, on a hillside previously searched, comparatively uninjured. The fate of the light aircraft remains unresolved.
I have his first book “A Touch of Treason” somewhere – I’ll need to dig it out, but I don’t recall it having much to say about his chess career.
My mother used to live round the corner from him – which reminds me that his Wikipaedia article doesn’t appear to mention his tangential involvement in what has become known as the Mull Air Mystery, one of Scotland’s more recent unsolved puzzles, when he had rented out his plane without checking the pilot’s credentials, only for the said pilot to take the plane for a late night joy-ride from Glen Forsa airstrip on Mull, never to return. (This was 25 years to the day since the Westminster Abbey incident). The pilot’s body was found months later, on a hillside previously searched, comparatively uninjured. The fate of the light aircraft remains unresolved.
I have his first book “A Touch of Treason” somewhere – I’ll need to dig it out, but I don’t recall it having much to say about his chess career.