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1920 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1920 in
Scotland
.
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See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1920 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1919–20
•
1920–21
Incumbents
edit
Secretary for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Robert Munro
[1]
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
James Avon Clyde
until 31 March; then
Thomas Brash Morison
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Thomas Brash Morison
until 31 March; then
Charles David Murray
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Strathclyde
until 1 April; then
Lord Clyde
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Dickson
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
–
Lord St Vigeans
Events
edit
12 February
–
Paisley by-election
: Former Prime Minister
H. H. Asquith
, who lost his East Fife seat at the
general election two years previously
, retains the seat for Liberals, with an increased majority of 2,834 votes over the
Labour Party
candidate, John McLaren Biggar.
31 March
–
Thomas Brash Morison
appointed
Lord Advocate
,
[2]
replacing
James Avon Clyde
Charles David Murray
appointed
Solicitor General for Scotland
,
[2]
replacing
Thomas Brash Morison
8 June
–
John Wilson
installed as
Senator of the College of Justice
with the judicial title Lord Ashmore, replacing the deceased Lord Guthrie
[3]
17 August
–
transatlantic liner
RMS
Empress of Canada
is launched at the
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
's yard at
Govan
on the
Clyde
for
Canadian Pacific Steamships
.
20 November
– Edinburgh absorbs the burgh of
Leith
.
5 December
– Scotland votes against
prohibition
generally, although about 40 districts vote in favour.
First
council houses
in Scotland, and the first housing estate in Europe to have a
district heating
system, the Logie Estate in
Dundee
.
[4]
Edith Hughes
establishes her own architectural practice, in Glasgow, the first British woman to do so.
The fishing village of Obbe on the Isle of
Harris
is renamed
Leverburgh
after the English landowner
William Lever, Baron Leverhulme
.
Scottish Protestant League
founded by Alexander Ratcliffe.
[5]
Border Terrier
first recognised as a
dog breed
by
The Kennel Club
.
Births
edit
3 January
–
Hugh McCartney
, Labour MP (died
2006
)
4 March
–
Alan MacNaughtan
, Scottish actor (died
2002
)
27 April
–
Edwin Morgan
, poet (died
2010
)
22 September
–
Lyall Stuart Scott
, consultant surgeon (died
1977
)
17 October
–
Donald Stewart
, SNP MP for the Western Isles 1970–87 (died
1992
)
22 November
–
Anne Crawford
, film actress, born in Mandatory Palestine (died 1956 in England)
28 November
–
Alexander Scott
, poet and literary scholar (died
1989
)
13 December
–
John Rennie (GC)
, acting
sergeant
with
the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)
, awarded the
George Cross
(died 1943 in England)
Deaths
edit
18 January
–
John McClure
, admiral in the
Imperial Chinese Navy
(born
1837
)
14 April
–
John George Bartholomew
, cartographer (born
1860
)
17 April
–
Alex Higgins
, international footballer (born
1863
)
10 August
–
Erskine Beveridge
, textile manufacturer and antiquarian (born
1851
)
12 October
–
Thomas Lennox Watson
, architect, (born
1850
)
Robert Munro
,
archeologist
, (born
1835
)
The arts
edit
Catherine Carswell
publishes her first novel,
Open the Door!
, set in Glasgow
Will Fyffe
writes and records the song "
I Belong to Glasgow
"
Pavilion Cinema in
Galashiels
opens as The Playhouse.
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1921 in Ireland
References
edit
^
Mitchell, James (12 June 2014).
The Scottish Question
. OUP Oxford. p. 64.
ISBN
978-0-19-100236-6
.
^
a
b
"No. 13583".
The Edinburgh Gazette
. 2 April 1920. p. 1008.
^
"News in Brief"
.
The Times
. No. 42432. London. 9 June 1920. p. 13
. Retrieved
10 January
2011
– via The Times Digital Archive.
^
"Launch of the Property Valuation Rolls for 1920".
ScotlandsPeople
. 28 October 2013
. Retrieved
28 May
2014
.
^
Smyth, J. J. (2000).
Labour in Glasgow, 1896-1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism
. East Linton: Tuckwell. p. 194.
ISBN
186232137X
.