David Hay obituary

My father, David Hay, who has died aged 79, was a pioneering researcher into the study of contemporary reports of religious experience.

He was born in Aberdeen, son of John, a merchant seaman, and Isabel, an upholsterer. Although, as a youngster, he moved with his family to Devon, where he attended grammar school in Crediton, he later returned to the city, to study at Aberdeen University, graduating with a master’s degree in zoology.