Peploe was a Scottish post impressionist painter and, along with John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter, was a founding member of the group that became known as the Scottish Colourists.

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About the only sympathetic listener he could find was John Horton, a parasitologist at SmithKline and a passionate hunter of affordable cures for tropical parasites.

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Mr Hunter said Icetech's parent company, John G Russell Transport, had started the process of finding a new owner for the freezer manufacturer six months ago.

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