1918 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1918 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1917–18 • 1918–19 |
Events from the year 1918 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Strathclyde
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Dickson
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Kennedy until 12 February; vacant until 2 May; then Lord St Vigeans
Events
- 12 January — Admiralty M-class destroyers HMS Narborough (1916) (Clydebuilt) and HMS Opal (1915) run aground and are wrecked off South Ronaldsay in a severe storm with only one survivor.
- 31 January — "Battle of May Island": In a confused series of collisions as a large Royal Navy fleet steams down the Firth of Forth this evening, submarines HMS K4 and HMS K17 are sunk, three other submarines and a light cruiser are damaged and 104 men are killed.[1]
- May — English industrialist William Lever, Baron Leverhulme, buys the Isle of Lewis.
- 15 May — World War I: Imperial German Navy submarine SM U-90 shells the Royal Navy wireless station on Hirta in St Kilda.[2]
- 29 June — Airship R27, built by William Beardmore and Company at Inchinnan (Renfrewshire), is commissioned.
- 22 August — HMS Hood (51) is launched by John Brown & Company at their Clydebank shipyard. The last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy, she will be in commission from 1920 to 1941.
- 5 November — Former Cunarder HMS Campania sinks in an accident in the Firth of Forth.
- 11 November — World War I is ended by Armistice at Compiègne, with Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss as British representative. The War has seen Scottish losses of 110,000 lives; equivalent to 10% of the country's male population aged between 16 and 50;[3] there is no parish in Scotland without a loss.
- 21 November — Education (Scotland) Act. Local education authorities replace school boards.[4]
- 25–27 November — The surrendered German High Seas Fleet steams from a rendezvous in the Firth of Forth to internment in Scapa Flow.[5]
- The Scottish county of Elginshire is officially renamed as the County of Moray (Morayshire).
- A farm at Arabella in Easter Ross is set aside as smallholdings for returning servicemen.
Births
- 1 January — Albert McQuarrie, Conservative politician and building contractor (died 2016)
- 3 February — Moira Dunbar, glaciologist (died 1999 in Canada)
- 1 February — Muriel Spark, novelist (died 2006)
- 11 May — Sheila Burnford, writer on Canada (died 1984 in England)
- 28 May — Jackie Husband, international footballer (died 1992)
- 28 June — William Whitelaw, Conservative politician (died 1999 in England)
- 30 June — Isobel Barnett, née Marshall, broadcasting personality (suicide 1980 in England)
- 21 July — Maurice Lindsay, broadcaster, writer and poet (died 2009)
Deaths
- 13 January — Aeneas Chisholm, Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen (born 1836)
- 15 January — Mark Sheridan, music hall performer, probable suicide (born 1864 in England)
- 6 February — John F. McIntosh, steam locomotive engineer (born 1846)
- 12 February — Neil Kennedy, Lord Kennedy, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court (born 1854)
- 26 April — Cecil Coles, composer, killed in action (born 1888)
- 30 June — Peter Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (born 1850)
- 9 November — Peter Lumsden, British Indian Army general (born 1829)
- 26 November — George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar, cotton manufacturer (born 1849)
The Arts
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh's poetry War, The Liberator, and Other Pieces is published posthumously.
See also
References
- ↑ ""Battle of May Island" remembered". UK Defence Today. Ministry of Defence. 2002-01-30. Archived from the original on 2002-02-02. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
- ↑ "U 90 und die Beschießung von St. Kilda". Das Marine Nachrichtenblatt.
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 92.
- ↑ Marder, Arthur J. (1970). From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. V. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-215187-8.
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