A war baby, Iain was born on 12 October 1943 in Petersfield, Hampshire to his Irish mother Frances and Scottish father Andrew. He grew up in Gosport, and often talked about how his childhood home was a postwar 'prefab'. In his mid-teens, Iain developed a love of music, especially that of his lifelong favourite musician, Duane Eddy.

After gaining an electrical engineering apprenticeship with BTH (later AEI), Iain moved to Rugby, first living in apprentice accommodation in Coton House, before sharing a rented house with his pals Art, Hugo and lifelong best friend Michael. Iain met Margaret in 1964 and they were married in 1968. Philip was born in 1972 and Katherine in 1975. After Michael married Margaret's sister Liz, Iain was 'Uncle Iain' to their sons Stephen and Simon.

After a few years working for a Leicester company in the early 1970s, Iain went back to the old site in Rugby where he worked as a commercial engineer for GEC Large Machines (later Alstom). In his spare time, he enjoyed maintaining his own car, doing a lot of servicing work to it. He was a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and helped many people prepare for and pass their advanced driving test.

An active member of English Martyrs Catholic Parish in Hillmorton, Iain served as chair of the governors at the affiliated school. Former staff members and parent governors have memories of that time, saying he always liked to bring a bit of fun and humour when appropriate.

Iain was familiar to regular mass-goers as one of the rota of lay readers, where his deep, rich voice filled the church. In 1981, he saw a local newspaper promotion for a volunteer charity called Rugby Hospital Radio. This would be the start of four decades of broadcasting to patients in the Hospital of St Cross. Throughout this time, Iain was the regular presenter of a programme called the Night Train on Sunday evenings, and was associated with the Saturday patient request show for 25 years. He served on the organising committee of Rugby Hospital Radio and planned the programme schedule.

In 2005, Iain won a National Hospital Radio Association Gold Award for best specialist music programme. He also recorded a 24-part series called At The Hop, celebrating his favourite pop era of the late 1950s and early 1960s, which is still heard on Rugby Hospital Radio and some other UK hospital radio stations to this day.

In the 1980s, Iain started volunteering as one of the readers at Rugby Talking Newspaper, which provides local news recordings to blind and sight-impaired people. He also served as treasurer for the charity for a number of years. As with the hospital radio, Iain continued this work until his health issues made it too difficult. Many people told Iain he had enough talent to be a professional broadcaster, although he was modest about his achievements and was primarily concerned with providing entertainment and information to the very specific audiences of both charities.

Iain was proud to become Grandad to Thomas in 2006 and Harry in 2009. Among other things, they remember him for making many videos of their young lives and for providing a typically professional-sounding sports commentary on their back garden games.

Iain is remembered for his kindness and generosity, and concern for others less fortunate. He was upset at seeing injustice and was deeply moved by stories of bravery, especially those of the Second World War generation above him.

We have many more stories about Iain, but friends and former colleagues probably have some that we haven't heard, so we would love to hear any memories you have.

Margaret, Katherine and Phil