1938 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1938 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1937–38 • 1938–39 |
Events from the year 1938 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
- Monarch — George VI
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Walter Elliot until 16 May; then John Colville
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Normand
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Aitchison
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord MacGregor Mitchell, then Lord Murray
Events
- 27 April — Second Division team East Fife F.C. uniquely win the Scottish Cup in Association football.[1]
- 3 May — Empire Exhibition opens in Glasgow.[2]
- 30 July — The Beano comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. of Dundee, goes on sale across the U.K.[3]
- 27 September — RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Clydebank; she is the largest ship in the world at this time.
- Iona Community established by Rev. George MacLeod in Glasgow.
- English landowner David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, buys the island of Inch Kenneth.
- The Hermitage of Braid estate, adjacent to Blackford Hill, is gifted to the city of Edinburgh for recreational purposes by John McDougal.
- The Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is excavated by V. Gordon Childe.
- Broughton Place at Broughton in the Borders is built in the style of a traditional tower house by Basil Spence incorporating decorative reliefs by Hew Lorimer.[4]
- Turner & Newall establish an asbestos cement plant at Dalmuir.
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes The Foundations of Scotland, the first of a 6-volume history.
Births
- 2 January — Ian Brady, born Ian Duncan Stewart, serial killer
- 16 February — Willie Hamilton, footballer (died 1976 in Canada)
- 7 March — Alan Cousin, footballer (died 2016)
- 31 March
- Ian Gray, comics scriptwriter (died 2007)
- David Steel, Liberal Democrats leader and 1st Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
- 5 June — Moira Anderson, singer
- 27 June — David Hope, judge
- 13 September — John Smith, Labour Party leader (died 1994 in London)
- 20 October — Iain Macmillan, photographer (died 2006)
Deaths
- 31 January — Sir James Crichton-Browne, psychiatrist (born 1840)
- 9 April — Moses McNeil, footballer, a founder of Rangers F.C. (born 1855)
- 11 April — David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1854)
- 25 April — Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1934–38 (born 1875)
- 29 April — James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, sculptor and poet (born 1856)
- 29 August — John Macdonald, sportsman and physician (died 1861)
The Arts
- Hugh S. Roberton writes the "Mingulay Boat Song".
See also
References
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ Pelle, Findling, ed. (2008). "Appendix B: Fair Statistics". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ "Broughton Place, Broughton". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
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