Perthshire shepherd Patrick MacNab has died, aged 98.
Mr MacNab, born on the Isle of Eigg in 1912, moved to Glen Artney at the age of four where he would spend large parts of his life. Learning from his father Peter, who worked for the Drummond and Ancaster Estates as a shepherd at the top of the Glen Artney, Mr McNab would use these experiences to begin his own career on the hills.
Although he helped with lambing and ploughing and worked as a pony boy in his younger years, crofting came naturally to him and after working briefly in Sussex, where he met future wife Isobel he returned to Perthshire to put down roots.
Marrying in 1940, the couple set up home in Dalclathik, although the honeymoon was brief, with Mr MacNab leaving the next morning for service in the RAF, where he was a motorbike despatch rider.
In 1953 the family moved to Lanarkshire, returning in 1974 to shepherd in Glen Artney again.
After retirement he remained a keen walker even into his 80s, contributing to numerous television programs, and was also the subject of poems and songs featured in several books.
His son Duncan said, “He was still quoting the latest sheep prices from the markets just three days before he died. He was known and loved by a huge number of people not just in Scotland, but all around the world.
“He often said that he was lucky to have made so many wonderful friends during his life.”
Mr MacNab leaves his daughters Veronica and Sheena, and sons Duncan and Peter.