Mervyn Lovat

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Mervyn Lovat

Born 1947 (October 1947 per Companies House)[1][2] Glasgow (birth registered in Hillhead)[1]
Occupation Lecturer in business and finance[3]
Parents Very probably David Lovat (born Levstein) and Sadie (Sarah) Lovat (née Taylor), m. 1938[4][5][6]
Spouse(s) Linda Lovat (née Rostoff, also indexed as Ross; married 1973)[7]
Children Henry Mark Lovat (born 1976); Toby Michael Lovat (born 1978); Adam Matthew Lovat (born 1980)[8]

Mervyn Maurice Lovat (born 1947), known as Mervyn Lovat, has been described as a lecturer in business and finance in Glasgow. His birth was registered in Hillhead, Glasgow, in 1947.[1] In 2021 The Herald described him as a 73-year-old lecturer in business and finance at the University of Glasgow, living in Newton Mearns with his wife Linda, a retired French and Spanish teacher, and reported that the couple had a son in Israel.[3]

Views on Israel

In a 2012 Haaretz article by Anshel Pfeffer on Jews in Scotland, Lovat, described as a lecturer at Glasgow Business School, was quoted as saying: "We were always very strong Zionist left-wingers here, but it's getting more and more difficult to be supportive of Israel, especially since two of my sons moved there. I just can't understand why they [Israel] do those things."[9]

Family

He married Linda Marion Rostoff in Glasgow (Martha Street) in 1973; the marriage index lists the bride under both Rostoff and Ross.[7] The ScotlandsPeople statutory births index, searched by surname Lovat and mother's maiden name Ross from 1973, returns three births, all registered in Eastwood and Mearns: Henry Mark Lovat (1976), Toby Michael Lovat (1978) and Adam Matthew Lovat (1980). They are the sons of Mervyn and Linda Lovat.[8] 192.com's electoral roll data lists Mervyn, Linda, Henry and Adam Lovat at the same address in Newton Mearns (G77) in 2002–03.[10]

Parents and siblings

Mervyn and Orry Lovat (born 1950) are brothers, sons of Mr and Mrs D. Lovat (née Sadie Taylor) of 9 Woodbank Crescent, Clarkston. Their parents were very probably David Levstein and Sarah ("Sadie") Taylor, who married at Pollok in 1938;[6] the family later used the surname Lovat, and a 1943 notice names them as "Mr and Mrs D. Lovat (Levstein)".[5] The Jewish Echo of 17 October 1947 announced the birth at Redlands on 12 October 1947 of a son to Mr and Mrs D. Lovat (née Sadie Taylor), 9 Woodbank Crescent, Clarkston, a "Brother for Bernice",[4] and the paper of 4 August 1950 announced the birth on Monday 31 July of a son to Mr and Mrs D. Lovat of the same address.[11] These match the only Lovat births registered in Scotland in 1947 and 1950: Mervyn Maurice Lovat (Hillhead, ref. 644/13/1612) and Orry Isaac Lovat (Hillhead, ref. 644/13/924).[1][12][13] The brothers had an older sister, Bernice Lipton, who was born Bernice Levstein at Hillhead in 1939[14] and later used the surname Lovat; the 1947 notice describes the new baby as a "Brother for Bernice".[4] As Bernice Lovat she married Derek Lipton in Busby in 1964 (ref. 571/1/37, ScotlandsPeople statutory marriages index).[15] She died in 2019 in Eastwood and Mearns, aged 79; the ScotlandsPeople statutory deaths index entry (ref. 650/767), indexed under both surnames, Lovat and Lipton, records her mother's maiden name as Taylor.[16] Bernice is the only Levstein birth indexed with the mother's maiden name Taylor. Mervyn (1947) and Orry (1950) were registered as Lovat, so the family adopted the surname Lovat between 1939 and 1943.[14][13][5] Mervyn's sons Henry Mark, Toby Michael and Adam Matthew and Orry's sons Oliver Leonard, Timothy Edward and Robin Jamie are therefore first cousins.[8][17]

The notices name the father only as D. Lovat. The ScotlandsPeople deaths index has two entries for a David Lovat: one who died in 1999 aged 85 in Eastwood and Mearns (ref. 650/408; mother's maiden name Catsif) and one who died in 1978 aged 57 in Glasgow, Martha Street (ref. 607/12; mother's maiden name McCue). Neither has been confirmed as the father.[18] A Mr D. Lovat appears among the first patrons of the Glasgow Maccabi Association in a list published in April 1950, where his name is followed by that of a Mr S. Levstein.[19]

Family background

In the Jewish Echo of 29 September 1943 a New Year greeting read: "LOVAT.—Mr and Mrs D. Lovat (Levstein) and Daughter, 164 Battlefield Rd., wish parents, relatives and friends a happy and peaceful New Year".[5] The "(Levstein)" after the name suggests that the family had previously used the surname Levstein. In October 1943 Mr and Mrs D. Lovat "and Daughter", of 164 Battlefield Road, Glasgow, were among those placing an in memoriam notice in the Jewish Echo for Isaac Taylor, who had died on 29 September 1942; the notice was placed by his wife, mother and family, also of 164 Battlefield Road.[20] In March 1947 Mr and Mrs D. Lovat and daughter were listed among the mourners in death notices for Louis Levstein.[21] By October 1947 the family was living at 9 Woodbank Crescent, Clarkston.[4] In October 1949 an in memoriam notice for Isaac Taylor, "our dear husband and our dear father", who died on 29 September 1942, was placed by "Mrs A. Taylor, 9 Woodbank Crescent. Mr and Mrs D. Lovat and family, 9 Woodbank Crescent", followed by other Taylors, including Mr and Mrs A. Taylor of 140 Battlefield Road, Mr and Mrs H. Taylor of 90 Holeburn Road, Mr and Mrs L. Taylor of 453 Victoria Road and Mr and Mrs N. Taylor of 20 Melford Avenue.[22] This indicates that Mrs A. Taylor was Isaac Taylor's widow and that Sadie Lovat (née Taylor) was very probably his daughter. In September 1950 Mr and Mrs D. Lovat and family, of 9 Woodbank Crescent, sent New Year greetings to "their dear mother, brothers and sisters",[23] and they appeared with Mrs A. Taylor, also of 9 Woodbank Crescent, in that year's in memoriam notice for Isaac Taylor.[24]

A J. D. Lovat household at 54 St Andrew's Drive, Pollokshields, appears among the mourners of Deborah Taylor, widow of Reuben David Taylor, who died at Dalchonzie House, Crieff, in 1942; the shiva was held at 54 St Andrew's Drive.[25] In November 1940 a Miss Ruth Lovat hosted a cultural meeting of Group 1 of Ziona, a Glasgow women's Zionist organisation that was the local youth section of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO),[26] at the same address; the meeting was listed in the Glasgow Jewish Youth Representative Council's diary of events.[27] In February 1936 the Jewish Echo had listed a donation from "Mrs. Lovat, St. Andrews Dr." "(Per 'Ziona' Group 1)".[28] In October 1941 a Miss Ruth Lovatt was among those thanked by Ziona Group I for the use of their homes for cultural meetings,[29] and in June 1949 a Ruth Lovatt was elected co-hon. treasurer of Glasgow Ziona.[30] The J. D. Lovat household is very probably that of Joseph Daniel Lovatt, a commercial traveller, and his wife Annie (née Taylor), who married in Gorbals, Glasgow, on 9 November 1913.[31][32] A Joseph Daniel Lovatt, probably the same man (born about 1885–86), died at East Kilbride in 1961, aged 75.[33] Annie was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, in about 1889–90.[34] Their children were Ruth Rebecca, born on 24 December 1915 at 158 Butterbiggins Road, Glasgow,[31] and Reuben D., born in Glasgow in about 1920; in the 1921 census Annie, Ruth and Reuben were recorded as lodgers in Rothesay.[34] Ruth Rebecca Lovatt is very probably the Miss Ruth Lovat or Lovatt of 54 St Andrew's Drive who was active in Ziona between 1940 and 1949, and probably the Ruth Rebecca Lovatt who married Barnett Amstell in Glasgow in 1968.[35] The 1942 death notice of Deborah Taylor names her late husband as Reuben David Taylor and lists the J. D. Lovat household among the mourners.[25] The statutory and census records of 1913, 1916, 1921, 1961 and 1968 spell the name "Lovatt", while the Jewish Echo notices of 1936, 1940 and 1942 print "Lovat". The exact relationship to D. Lovat and Sadie (née Taylor) is not established.

Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow

Companies House lists him as a director of The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (SC000887) from 3 March 2010; the society's company record was later closed when it converted to a Scottish charitable incorporated organisation.[2][36] The society's council nominated him for election to its council at the 2015 annual general meeting.[37]

Companies House

Companies House holds two officer records under the name Mervyn Maurice Lovat. The first gives his date of birth as October 1947.[2] The second carries no date of birth; it uses the same Newton Mearns address as the first record's Royal Philosophical Society appointment.[38]

Company Number Role Appointed Resigned Correspondence address Officer record
Matherton Investments Limited SC712950 Director 22 October 2021 7 April 2026 24 Beresford Terrace, Ayr, United Kingdom, KA7 2EG born October 1947[2][39]
Matherton Investments Limited SC712950 Person with significant control 22 October 2021 (notified) 7 April 2026 (ceased) 24 Beresford Terrace, Ayr, United Kingdom, KA7 2EG –[40]
The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow SC000887 Director 3 March 2010 – (company converted/closed) 9 Mearnscroft Road, Glasgow, G77 5QH born October 1947[2]
Sphere Fashions Limited SC267718 Secretary 11 May 2004 20 May 2005 9 Mearnscroft Road, Newton Mearns, Glasgow, G77 5QH no date of birth shown[38]
Sports Connection Limited SC172250 Secretary 27 January 1999 – (company dissolved) 9 Mearnscroft Road, Newton Mearns, Glasgow, G77 5QH no date of birth shown[38]
Florence Clothiers (Scotland) Limited SC071477 Secretary 27 January 1999 – (company dissolved) 9 Mearnscroft Road, Newton Mearns, Glasgow, G77 5QH no date of birth shown[38]

Henry Mark Lovat has been a director and a person with significant control of Matherton Investments since 22 October 2021.[39][40]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers index, births, 1947: Mervyn Maurice Lovat, registration district Hillhead (Glasgow), ref. 644/13/1612, accessed 29 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Companies House, Mervyn Maurice LOVAT – appointments, accessed 29 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Herald, "Vaccine certificates: Jag record blunder leaves couple unable to see son", 24 July 2021.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Jewish Echo, 17 October 1947, Births: "LOVAT.—To Mr and Mrs D. Lovat (nee Sadie Taylor), 9 Woodbank Crescent Clarkston, at Redlands, on 12th October, 1947, a son. Brother for Bernice."
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Jewish Echo, 29 September 1943, p. 4, "New Year Greetings": "LOVAT.—Mr and Mrs D. Lovat (Levstein) and Daughter, 164 Battlefield Rd., wish parents, relatives and friends a happy and peaceful New Year..."
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statutory marriages index, Pollok, 1938, 644/18/238 (ScotlandsPeople): David Levstein and Sarah Taylor.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers index, marriages, 1973: Mervyn Maurice Lovat and Linda Marion Rostoff (the bride is indexed under both Rostoff and Ross), registration district Glasgow (Martha Street), ref. 609/323, accessed 29 October 2026.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 ScotlandsPeople statutory births index, searched by mother's maiden name Ross (surname Lovat, from 1973; three entries, all registered in Eastwood and Mearns): Adam Matthew Lovat, 1980, ref. 650/188; Toby Michael Lovat, 1978, ref. 650/101; Henry Mark Lovat, 1976, ref. 650/36; accessed 29 October 2026.
  9. ↑ Anshel Pfeffer, "Does Scotland manage to be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic?", Haaretz, 2 November 2012; extract reproduced by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, scottishpsc.org.uk, accessed 29 October 2026.
  10. ↑ 192.com, electoral roll records for an address in Newton Mearns (G77): Mervyn Lovat, Linda Lovat, Henry Lovat and Adam Lovat, 2002–03; Henry Lovat, 2005; accessed 29 October 2026.
  11. ↑ Jewish Echo, 4 August 1950, Births: "LOVAT.—On Monday, 31st July, to Mr and Mrs D. Lovat, 9 Woodbank Crescent, Clarkston, a son."
  12. ↑ ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers index, births: Orry Isaac Lovat, 1950, registration district Hillhead (Glasgow), ref. 644/13/924, accessed 29 October 2026.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 ScotlandsPeople statutory registers indexes, searched for the surname Lovat, accessed 29 October 2026: Mervyn Maurice (1947) and Orry Isaac (1950) are the only Lovat births registered in Scotland in those years.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statutory births index, Hillhead, 1939, 644/13/917 (ScotlandsPeople): Bernice Levstein.
  15. ↑ ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers index, marriages, 1964: Bernice Lovat and Derek Lipton, registration district Busby, ref. 571/1/37, accessed 29 October 2026.
  16. ↑ ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers index, deaths, 2019: Bernice Lovat, also indexed as Lipton, age 79, mother's maiden name Taylor, registration district Eastwood and Mearns, ref. 650/767, accessed 29 October 2026.
  17. ↑ ScotlandsPeople statutory births index, searched by surname Lovat and mother's maiden name Regan (from 1970): Oliver Leonard Lovat (1976), Timothy Edward Lovat (1978) and Robin Jamie Lovat (1982), accessed 29 October 2026.
  18. ↑ ScotlandsPeople statutory deaths index, David Lovat: died 1999, aged 85, Eastwood and Mearns, ref. 650/408, mother's maiden name Catsif; died 1978, aged 57, Glasgow (Martha Street), ref. 607/12, mother's maiden name McCue; accessed 29 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Jewish Echo, 14 April 1950, Glasgow Maccabi Association advertisement, "First Patrons List".
  20. ↑ Jewish Echo, 13 October 1943, p. 6, in memoriam notice for Isaac Taylor, who "passed away 29th September, 1942 (18th Tishri, 5703)", from "his wife, mother and family", 164 Battlefield Road, and listing "Mr. and Mrs. D. Lovat and Daughter, 164 Battlefield Road".
  21. ↑ Jewish Echo, 28 March 1947, death notices for Louis Levstein, listing "Mr and Mrs D. Lovat and daughter" among the mourners.
  22. ↑ Jewish Echo, 14 October 1949, "Births, Marriages, etc.", in memoriam notice: "TAYLOR.—In loving memory of our dear husband and our dear father, Isaac Taylor, who passed away on 18th Tishri, 5703 (29th September, 1942)", from "Mrs A. Taylor, 9 Woodbank Crescent. Mr and Mrs D. Lovat and family, 9 Woodbank Crescent", followed by Mr and Mrs A. Taylor, 140 Battlefield Road; Mr and Mrs H. Taylor, 90 Holeburn Road; Mr and Mrs L. Taylor, 453 Victoria Road; Mr and Mrs N. Taylor, 20 Melford Avenue; and others.
  23. ↑ Jewish Echo, 8 September 1950, New Year greetings: "LOVAT.—Mr and Mrs D. Lovat and family, 9 Woodbank Crescent, Clarkston, wish their dear mother, brothers and sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, their families, relatives and friends a happy and prosperous New Year and well over the Fast."
  24. ↑ Jewish Echo, 29 September 1950 (the page header is dated 22 September 1950), Personal Announcements, in memoriam notice for Isaac Taylor, who died on 29 September 1942, listing Mrs A. Taylor, 9 Woodbank Crescent, and "Mr and Mrs D. Lovat and family, 9 Woodbank Crescent".
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Jewish Echo, 8 May 1942, p. 6, death notice: "TAYLOR.—At Dalchonzie House, Crieff, after a short illness, Deborah, aged 83, widow of the late Reuben David Taylor ... Shiva at 54 St Andrew's Drive, Pollokshields", listing "Mr and Mrs J. D. Lovat and Family, 54 St. Andrew's Drive, Pollokshields".
  26. ↑ Ben Braber, Integration of Jewish Immigrants in Glasgow, 1880–1939, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 1992, p. 276 ("the local youth section of WIZO which was called Ziona").
  27. ↑ Jewish Echo, 1 November 1940, "Glasgow Jewish Youth Representative Council: Diary of Events and Functions": "Sunday, 3rd Nov.—Cultural Meeting of Ziona, Group 1 at the residence of Miss Ruth Lovat, 54 St. Andrew's Drive, at 3 p.m. Speaker Mr Abe Lever." Particulars of functions were to be sent to "Mr Jack E. Miller, Hon. Secretary, Glasgow Jewish Youth Representative Council, 13 St. Catherine's Road, Giffnock".
  28. ↑ Jewish Echo, 14 February 1936, p. 11, donations list: "Mrs. Lovat, St. Andrews Dr." "(Per 'Ziona' Group 1)", British Newspaper Archive.
  29. ↑ Jewish Echo, 24 October 1941, p. 7, "Ziona resumes activities": thanks for homes for cultural meetings to "Misses H. Shulman, Ruth Lovatt, A. Cina", British Newspaper Archive.
  30. ↑ Jewish Echo, 17 June 1949, p. 10, "Glasgow Ziona: 17th Annual General Meeting": "Hon. Treasurers, Blanche Green and Ruth Lovatt", British Newspaper Archive.
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Register of births, District of Govanhill, Burgh of Glasgow, 1916, entry 21 (644/16/21): Ruth Rebecca Lovatt, born 24 December 1915 at 158 Butterbiggins Road, Glasgow; father Joseph Daniel Lovatt, commercial traveller (informant); mother Annie Lovatt, maiden surname Taylor; parents married 9 November 1913, Gorbals, Glasgow; registered 4 January 1916.
  32. ↑ Statutory marriages index, Gorbals, 1913, 644/17/488 (ScotlandsPeople).
  33. ↑ ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers index, deaths, 1961: Joseph Daniel Lovatt, aged 75, registration district East Kilbride, ref. 643/537, accessed 29 October 2026.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 1921 Census of Scotland, Rothesay (Bute), 558/2/18, p. 18, schedule 141: Annie Lovatt, lodger, married, 31 years 6 months, born Leeds, Yorkshire; Ruth R. Lovatt, lodger, 5 years 6 months, born Glasgow; Reuben D. Lovatt, lodger, 1 year 4 months, born Glasgow.
  35. ↑ ScotlandsPeople, Statutory Registers index, marriages, 1968: Ruth Rebecca Lovatt and Barnett Amstell, registration district Glasgow, ref. 644/6/620, accessed 29 October 2026.
  36. ↑ Companies House, The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (SC000887): filing history, accessed 29 October 2026.
  37. ↑ Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Notice of the 213th Annual General Meeting, 1 April 2015, accessed 29 October 2026.
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 Companies House, Mervyn Maurice LOVAT – appointments, accessed 29 October 2026.
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Companies House, Matherton Investments Limited (SC712950): officers, accessed 29 October 2026.
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Companies House, Matherton Investments Limited (SC712950): persons with significant control, accessed 29 October 2026.
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