{"id":2510,"date":"2025-01-16T23:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2025-01-16T23:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:15:16","slug":"sad-news-for-the-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"Sad news for the club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54268728817_2b38e7dbf5_o.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 10 January, the club suffered an immeasurable loss, with the death of George Kilgour. It may not seem untimely given his advanced years, but George was an energetic character, rowing regularly and leading Ramblers groups as well. In the past he was a talented mountaineer, and he very generously gave some of his old climbing ropes to the monkey-fist fundraising effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tributes have been pouring in from club members. Here are just a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Mark: <\/em><\/strong><em>We\u2019ve lost George at No3 oar.\u00a0 George, a Rowing Club member of many years, died at\u00a0 home this week and we are dealing with the shock of losing a fit, friendly 86-year old: our most-senior rower.\u00a0 He was a regular with us over-60s and liked that engine room position at No3, a tin of mints on the seat beside him\u00a0(the mints a backup for emergencies when the cox forgets jelly baby morale-boosters). \u00a0George was a modest, former army man who almost more than rowing, established himself as a hill-walking guide.\u00a0 There can hardly be a hill, trail, ridge or glen in Scotland he had not walked.\u00a0 He knew Fife like the back of his hand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54270031085_33e93fda9d_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">George celebrates winning a medal at QRC&#8217;s 2019 regatta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Lesley and Gareth:<\/strong> George was a gentleman. He\u2019d pop up next to you at a regatta and always had a good chat. Lovely, lovely man.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Donna:<\/strong> God Bless George. He was what our club is all about and will be sorely missed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54269856474_84dfe21218_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oldest and youngest: George at the no. 3 oar, with Georgina at no. 2, ferrying the &#8220;Row Around Scotland&#8221; baton in August 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51410765705_98ca9c734e_b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And here he is with the baton&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 January, the club suffered an immeasurable loss, with the death of George Kilgour. It may not seem untimely given his advanced years, but George was an energetic character, rowing regularly and leading Ramblers groups as well. In the past he was a talented mountaineer, and he very generously gave some of his old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=2510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sad news for the club&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}