He was the son of a Highland railway engineer who grew up south of the border. Aberdeen and Orkney minister Donald Strachan was born on February 6, 1937. Grandson of an Edinburgh solicitor he arrived in the world while his mechanical engineer father, Philip, was based in North London working on the railway. Philip began his career in Lochgorm Works, Inverness, and married his Perthshire lass, Catherine. But in 1922 the London, Midland and Scottish railways grouped together so a move south for the Strachans followed.
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