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    An adopted Teri of great renown who overcame early adversity

    Friday, December 10th, 2021
    An adopted Teri of great renown who overcame early adversity

    John Bootland Thorburn, known as Jock in Hawick, was born on November 19, 1926, at 15 St Andrew’s Lane, Leith, a flat in a tenement block off the Kirkgate near the docks.

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