Ann Gloag

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Dr. Ann Souter Gloag McCleary, OBE is a Scottish business woman, and charity campaigner. Born Ann Heron Souter on December 10, 1942 in Perth, Scotland, she was educated at Caledonian Road Primary School and Perth High School. She qualified as a nurse and during a 20 year career worked as a burns unit sister.

She founded bus company "Gloagtrotter" in October 1980 with her brother, Brian Souter and her then-husband, Robin Gloag. Some £25,000 of her father's severance money was used to purchase two small buses. Later the company expanded to offer cheap journeys between Dundee and London. The initial gimmick was to offer sandwiches (provided by her mother), blankets and tea. The company was renamed "Stagecoach Express Services", and subsequently became Stagecoach Group. Her involvement in Stagecoach has diminished in recent years, although she remains a non-executive director. She now devotes a significant amount of her time to charity interests, including support for Mercy Ships. She was appointed an OBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours List for her services to charity. In 2005 Napier University of Edinburgh, Scotland awarded her a honorary doctorate. In honour of her late son she runs a charitable school in Nairobi, Kenya the Jonathan Gloag Academy

In March 2000, Gloag, along with her brother, she became involved in the campaign to retain Section 2A (Section 28 in England), which disallowed the state to fund or educate about homosexuality, by staging a private referendum.

Gloag also has investments outside Stagecoach Group with her brother, including bus builder Alexander Dennis and a chain of petrol stations. She was also an investor in Cambridge-based regional airline Scot Airways but sold this shareholding on September 18, 2006.

Gloag has owned Beaufort Castle near Inverness since 1995, and Kinfauns Castle, near Perth since 2004. She has attempted to block off private access at Kinfauns in a high profile case. [1] [2] [3] [4]

She is a member of the Church of the Nazarene.