Gordon Millan obituary

My friend Gordon Millan, who has died aged 74, was a scholar of French literature of the belle époque and an authority on the great French poet Stéphane Mallarmé.

Gordon was born in Kirkcaldy, in Fife, to Isobel (nee Hamilton) and Frederick, a baker. After Frederick’s death, Isobel moved to England, and Gordon and his twin brother, Freddie, swapped Kirkcaldy High school for Merrywood Grammar in Bristol, where his interest in languages was kindled.