Lorraine Anne Allan 1950–2019

It is with great sadness that I announce that Lorraine Allan died in hospital at the age of 70 in the early morning of Saturday 25th May 2019 after a short illness.

There is so much to write about Lorraine that I am sure I can never capture it all. She had always been focused on education, not only as a lifelong student herself but throughout her career and she had always championed animals, even from a very tender age. Her children heard many stories of how from a child of only 5 or 6 years she would regularly rescue injured birds, rabbits, hedgehogs, bringing them home to nurse back to life before releasing them. She was born to be a vet, and she was a giant talent in her field. She could diagnose most things at a glance, even before she had laid hands on her patient, and what hands they were. As a surgeon she was magic to watch at work, swift with the scalpel and accurate too, delicate yet decisive. A true master.