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1. • • He fought World War II tank battles in Europe with the British army, marketed Scotch whisky, wore kilts during visits to Japan, served as chairman of Scotland’s St. Mirren soccer club and as an international soccer referee, and founded a distillery on the Scottish Isle of Arran.
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   Who was Harold Currie?

   • Harold ‘Hal’ Currie (1924-2016) enjoyed a successful career in spirits, but it was only after his retirement that he saw his biggest achievement – the revival of whisky distilling on Arran for the first time in over 150 years. Neil Wilson tells his story. Whisky saviour: Harold Currie was responsible for reviving Arran’s distilling heritage

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   What happened to Harold Currie?

   • A career spent in the wine and spirits trade prepared Harold Currie for his greatest achievement – bringing distilling back to the Isle of Arran after more than 150 years. When he passed away in March 2016 the whisky industry lost one of its greatest gentlemen.

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   Who was Sir Donald Currie?

   • In September, 1883, he was an officer of the Castle liner Pembroke Castle when she cruised among the islands off the coast of Scotland and Copenhagen, the party including (Sir Donald Currie. the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lady Tennyson, and the present Mrs. Asquith.

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   Who was John Currie?

   • John Currie, mentioned on lot 3 in the list of pioneers, was the Township Clerk in 1845. He belonged to the same family as other Curries in Nottawasaga. Various early settlers along this Sun-nidale Road were natives of the Island of Islay, Scotland, some of whom removed to Nottawasaga.

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   Who is Mr. Currie?

   • Mr. Currie was the owner of the banking firm and the plaintiff bringing the action. In the passage, it is mentioned that 'Mr. Currie gave to the banker a draft or order on Mr. Misa for the amount of the four bills'.

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   What did Currie do for a living?

   • As well as whisky, Currie had a great passion for football and spent many years as a referee, even managing to have the FA arrange for him to referee fixtures while on business abroad. He was then invited to join the board of his ‘local’ club, St Mirren FC in Paisley, in the early ‘70s.

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   Oct 17, 2018 · Harold ‘Hal’ Currie (1924-2016) enjoyed a successful career in spirits, but it was only after his retirement that he saw his biggest achievement – the revival of whisky distilling on Arran for the first time in over 150 years. Neil Wilson tells his story.

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   Harold Currie, who has died aged 91, was a whisky entrepreneur, who founded Isle of Arran Distillers, he was also a football man, both a FIFA referee and Chairman of St Mirren in the 1970’s....

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   Mar 21, 2016 · The founder of Arran distillery and veteran of the D-Day landings passed away on 15 March at the age of 91. Harold Currie (1924-2016), was considered a visionary and a true whisky legend. Harold, or Hal as he was also popularly known, was born in Liverpool in 1924 and grew to become a keen football and whisky fan.

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   Sep 11, 2023 · When whisky industry veteran Harold Currie announced in the 1990s that he wanted to open a distillery on the Isle of Arran, people were sceptical, to say the least.

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   Apr 1, 2016 · Harold Currie, born in Liverpool, England, lived a life that could fill a boy’s adventure novel. He fought World War II tank battles in Europe with the British army, marketed Scotch whisky,...

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   This was the culmination of a dream which had begun some years earlier when Mr Harold Currie, a man with a distinguished background in the distilling industry, started looking for somewhere in Scotland to establish a new distillery.

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    Nov 14, 2017 · Harold Currie, a former director of Chivas, founded Arran Distillers in 1994 with the intention of building a distillery on Arran. Construction started in 1994 but halted after a pair of endangered golden eagles built their nests on a cliff near the distillery.