JOHNSTONE, Ian Gilmour 1943-2023

[Richard R]

From the Times of 16 May 2023: JOHNSTONE Iain Gilmour died suddenly on 4th May 2023, aged 80. Loved and missed husband of Mo, father of Sophie, Holly and Oliver, grandfather of Ralph, Theo, Arthur, Stella, Jake and Isabella. The funeral will take place at 2pm on Thursday 25th May at St Columba’s, Pont Street. All are welcome.

His dau Sophie m 2007 Hon EDWARD JOHN HUGO b 1976 s&ha of 5^th Baron TOLLEMACHE b 1939 and Alexandra Dorothy Jean b 1949 d of Col Hugo MEYNELL MC 1909-60 (gt gs of 1^st Viscount HALIFAX 1800-85 gf of 1^st Earl of HALIFAX 1881-1959) and Dorothy Jean Hosta Henriette GOSCHEN 1909-93 d of Sir Edward Henry GOSCHEN 2^nd Bt 1876-1933 (who was nephew of 1^st Viscount GOSCHEN 1831-1907), and has two sons and a dau.

[Richard R]

Obit in the Times of 4 Aug 2023:

Iain Johnstone obituary

Distinguished film critic for The Sunday Times who was also by turns biographer, documentary maker and television producer

… Iain Gilmour Johnstone was born in Reading in 1943, the son of Jack Johnstone, a postmaster, and his wife Ethel (née Gilmour), known as Gillie. When his father was transferred to Northern Ireland the family moved to Belfast, where he went to Campbell College…

… In 1972 Johnstone married Renate Kohler, with whom he had enjoyed an on-off relationship since university. “She suggested that getting married might stabilise it,” he wrote. He and the Countdown host Richard Whiteley, whose biography he co-wrote, were each other’s best men. The marriage was dissolved after a couple of years and he then had a relationship with Arianna Stassinopoulos, the founder of the Huffington Post, but “our romance was too good to last”. His second marriage, in 1980, was to Mo Watson, a script supervisor who survives him with their children: Sophie, who had a small part in A Fish Called Wanda; Holly, who leads a private life; and Oliver, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company…

…Later Johnstone resumed his interest in the law, becoming a commercial mediator. His “last honest day’s work” was volunteering at the 2012 Olympic Games. Afterwards he received an engraved relay baton, which he passed to his grandson [Ralph Timothy Jack TOLLEMACHE b 2010, second in direct line to his gf 6^th Baron TOLLEMACHE b 1939], who was a page of honour at the coronation of King Charles.

Iain Johnstone, film critic, was born on April 8, 1943. He died of undisclosed causes on May 4, 2023, aged 80

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/iain-johnstone-obituary-8rzcvs3pv