Retired Perth GP Dr Jim Watson, who was a past president of Perth Festival of the Arts, has died aged 74.
Dr Watson, pictured, was born in Stirling where his father was an architect for Stirling County Council. He was educated at Stirling High School where he became head boy.
He studied medicine at Glasgow University and after qualification he was offered several posts but accepted the invitation by the senior consultant physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Jo Wright, to be his houseman.
Before taking up the post, he decided to have a year in general practice in Peebles. He decided to stay in general practice, turning down the post in Glasgow, and joined doctors Bisset, Douglas and Reid in Perth in 1965.
At that time the surgery employed two part-time receptionists no nurses, just district nurses, who came in.
By the time Dr Watson retired in 2000, not only did the surgery employ numerous receptionists and nurses but as senior partner and business partner of the practice he had overseen the building of two new surgeries, one in Scone and one in Perth.
Apart from work, Dr Watson had many interests. For a number of years he was president of Perth Youth Orchestra and in 1991, he was invited to become president of Perth Festival of the Arts.
In 2001, he became a trustee of the Gannochy Trust, a position he held for seven years. Dr Watson enjoyed hill walking and with his wife, Marjory, spent many happy holidays in the Alps and closer to home in the Highlands.
Dr Watson leaves his wife, Marjory, to whom he had been married for 30 years, and, from his first marriage, three daughters Margaret, Helen and Christine.
He is also survived by his elder brother, David.