The funeral of a Scottish lawyer who helped 'liberate' the Stone of Destiny from Westminster as a student, will take place in Connel in Argyll and Bute, on Wednesday.
Ian Hamilton KC, 97, died on October 4, with Scotland’s First Minister leading the tributes. Mr Hamilton was the last surviving member of the gang of four students who took the famous stone, on which kings and queens of Scotland were traditionally crowned, from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day in 1950.
The stone is expected to be beneath King Edward’s chair for the Coronation of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey, on May 6 next year. However, tomorrow a service will be held to remember the man who briefly brought it back to Scotland before its official return.
