Tom Paton was the manager of which famous Scottish teeny-bop group in the 1970's?
Tam Paton time of his death he weighed 25 stone. Paton was openly gay. Tam Paton Thomas Dougal "Tam" Paton (5 August 1938 – 8 April 2009) was the Scottish manager and primary spokesman, during the 1970s, of the Scottish pop group the Bay City Rollers. Born in Prestonpans, Scotland, he was the son of a potato merchant. Paton initially drove a truck to aid the group financially. He guided the band through to their period of success during the mid-1970s, nurturing the band's image to be that of the "boys next door". He was responsible for beginning the myth that the
Ernest Forrester Paton Ernest Forrester Paton Ernest Forrester Paton (1891–1970), also known by the Tamil name Chinnannan, was a Scottish United Free Church medical missionary to Pune, part of then-Bombay Presidency. He was the co-founder of "Christukula Ashram", the first Protestant Christian Ashram in India, along with S. Jesudasan, a fellow missionary and Tamilian convert to Christianity, at Tirupattur of North Arcot, Tamil Nadu—part of then-Madras Presidency in South India. Ernest Forrester Paton was born in a religiously devout family at Alloa, Scotland; Catherine Forrester Paton, his aunt, founded a women's missionary training college in Glasgow. After primary schooling in Alloa, he continued