Duncan Morison

Scottish pianist, died 21 April 1998 in Stornoway at the age of 92. A friend of the Queen Mother and a Freeman of the Western Isles, ''Major'' Morison, as everyone knew him, was probably best known as accompanist to the well-known tenor, [Father Sydney MacEwan]. The pair toured Australia, New Zealand, and India and he also did concert tours with the tenor Robert King and Michael O'Duffy. On a short tour to Germany he was summoned to play for the founder of the Gestapo, Hermann Goering. He and Robert King joined ENSA and were in heavy demand to entertain the troops. They had to leave Dunkirk just as it came under fire.