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ROBBIE GLEN |
| Robbie Glen's wit, timing & ability to read an audience is incredible, he's one of the finest after dinner speakers you're ever likely to hear. His gift for making people laugh surely qualifies him for an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records. |
| Sired by an Ayrshire man out of a Renfrewshire lady, Robbie was reared in Lanarkshire. He was educated at Hamilton Academy & Strathclyde University. He taught for one year in Blantyre before joining the Prison Service as an Assistant Governor in 1969. |
| Robbie, a Fellow of the Institute of Management, served several prison sentences; Governor of Castle Huntly Young Offenders Institution - Dungavel Prison where he was Deputy & Acting Governor - along with Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow. He also had the pleasure of being Governor of Cornton Vale, Scotland's only female establishment & finally retired from the Scottish Prison Service on 4th September 1996. |
| William McIlvanney based his story The Prisoner in his book of short stories entitled The Walking Wounded on Robbie after he visited him at Dungavel. |
| In his youth, Robbie played junior football professionally but his career was cut short tragically at an early age due to lack of ability. He still holds the Lanarkshire Schoolboy 440 yards record as it's now metric! |
| Robbie is married with two daughters, the younger of whom is profoundly handicapped. Robbie developed a walking aid for her with his staff & prisoners in 1981 & it's now being used in numerous hospitals & schools throughout Scotland to teach handicapped children how to walk. |
| Robbie Glen had them rolling in the aisles. This man should carry a government health warning - he is seriously funny. The Sunday Times |
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