Bob Smart (1931–2019)

"Robert Smart (always Bob), formerly Keeper of Manuscripts and Muniments in the University of St Andrews, has died after a short illness. Born on 4 August 1931 in Dunino, his heritage was of Fife on his father’s side, and Skye on his mother’s. Spending the war years on the family croft in Skye, he attended Portree High School, and then, after the war, Perth Academy. The Gaelic he acquired on Skye in those formative years remained with him all his life. He undertook National Service in Wales in the post-war years, working on guided missile trajectories, a far cry from the archival career he would later pursue. ..."
(Scotsman, obituary, 10 Aug. 2010).