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Born in St Andrews on 26 September 1914, the only son of Sir James Colquhoun Irvine, Principal of St Andrews University, and Mabel Violet [Williams], Nigel was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire and then St Andrews University (1932-1936) where he achieved a 2nd in Chemistry. At Corpus (1936-39) he achieved a 2nd in Jurisprudence and then enlisted. He married Mary Elise Cecelia [Banister], a serving member of the WRNS and daughter of Captain Gerald Banister, RN, in 1943 and by then was a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving as Radar Officer on HMS Devonshire (1941-43) on the Arctic Patrol and Russian convoys, then on HMS Nigeria (1943-44) in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. He died on 26 May 1944 (aged 29), drowned in Ceylon.