Dr Iain Malcolm Ferguson served as a GP in Scotland, England and Canada during a long and distinguished medical career.
Born in Edinburgh in 1948, his family history was rooted in the Outer Hebrides.
His mother was a Macleod from Tolsta Chaolais in Lewis ad his father, also a GP, was from a well-known family who lived at Boisdale House in South Lochboisdale, South Uist.
Mr Ferguson, his brother and sister spent their summers helping on the family croft, which he later inherited and returned to on his retirement.
Following his schooling at George Watsons in Edinburgh, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University, when he met his wife Ruth, a nurse.
They married at Dunfermline Abbey in 1973.
When posts were hard to come by at home, the couple moved to Canada where they expected to stay for a couple of years, but remained for a decade.
Mr Ferguson practised as a GP anaesthetist in Roblin, Manitoba, and ran the local hospital, before he and the family moved to Nanaimo, Vancouver Island.
Returning to Scotland, he spent two years in Dingwall and then moved to Torphins, Aberdeenshire, where he was the local GP for 23 years.
A keen golfer, he and wife Ruth also shared a passion for history and music and frequently hosted family and friends at their home for a ceilidh.
They were well-travelled but also spent a great deal of time exploring Scotland, and the couple enjoyed welcoming friends from home and abroad, taking visitors on guided tours of the Highlands and Islands.
When Mr Ferguson retired, he and his wife moved to the croft in Lewis, which had been in his family for more than 150 years, to enjoy the tranquillity of island life.
He passed away peacefully in the Bethesda Hospice, Stornoway on April 17, aged 72, after a long battle with cancer.
Described by friends as a gentleman and a man of integrity, he loved his island heritage and felt at peace being back home.
He is survived by Ruth, children Sarah, Calum, Rachel, Hamish and Hannah, and grandchildren Grace, Finn and Matyas.