Celebrated as someone who could “light up any room”, Dryburgh was remembered with a minute’s silence by local Edinburgh side Spartans FC, with tributes posted on the club’s Facebook calling him a “lovely, lovely guy”, and “very supportive”.
Dryburgh was an ex-player for and lifelong supporter of Spartans, becoming a founding shareholder of the club’s successful restructure in 2021.
Dryburgh, a businessman with interests across print and IT across Scotland, died on 13 September 2024, aged 71.
Farquhar & Son, which was founded in 1870, passed a resolution to wind up its affairs voluntarily on 3 February, appointing liquidators Mark Newton and Christopher Andersen from London’s AABRS insolvency practitioners on the same day.
The Farquhar & Son website has now been taken down, and the firm’s phone lines have been disconnected.
As of 2018, the company had eight staff and a turnover of £800,000, but the figures at the time of liquidation were unknown at the time of writing.
Newton and Andersen took on the liquidation of Dryburgh’s IT venture, Allander Information Services, on the same day.
All of Dryburgh’s other active businesses have been put into liquidation, including Edinburgh’s Paramount Printers, which appointed liquidators on 30 April 2024 after entering creditors’ voluntary liquidation.
Dryburgh was survived by his wife Doreen, children Louise and Niall, and three grandchildren.
Printweek has approached the AABRS liquidators for comment.
