Rattray Bowling Club president Derek McIntosh Ingram

A Perthshire bowler has died at the club he headed, aged 63.

Rattray Bowling Club president Derek McIntosh Ingram collapsed and died as shocked members and visitors looked on.

Mr Ingram suffered from heart disease and 15 years ago had a triple bypass.

A Scottish national coach, he enjoyed a great deal of success in bowling competitions over the years.

Originally from Aberdeen, he attended Aberdeen Grammar School before joining a family-owned and run fish merchant’s business.

With the sale of the business he moved on and did a number of different jobs, skilled and unskilled, including being a fresh meat salesman, lorry driver and council roads worker.

At one point he went into the bookmaking business and was involved in the bar trade, guest houses and hotel business, as well as the taxi trade.

For the past number of years he lived in Blairgowrie, apart from a brief spell buying and running a restaurant in Tenerife.

He is survived by his children Avril, Paul, Amanda and Laura.