1911_in_Scotland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1911 in Scotland.

Incumbents edit

27 January – opening of Scottish Motor Exhibition in Edinburgh.^[1]
March–April – eleven thousand workers at the Singer Manufacturing Co. sewing machine factory on Clydebank go on strike in solidarity with twelve female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation; four hundred alleged ringleaders are dismissed.^[2]^[3]
2 May–4 November – Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry at Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow.^[4]
9 May – a fire at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh kills eleven people, including illusionist Sigmund Neuberger ("The Great Lafayette") and also his lion and horse; he is buried in Piershill Cemetery with his dog Beauty.^[1]
19 July – Thistle Chapel, designed by Robert Lorimer, dedicated in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.^[5]
24 July – start of Scottish leg of first Daily Mail Circuit of Britain air race, Hendon–Harrogate–Newcastle–Edinburgh–Stirling–Glasgow–Carlisle.
11 September – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, buys the ruined Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull to restore as the seat of the Clan Maclean.
11 November – Barclay Curle launch cargo ship Jutlandia at their Clydeholm yard, the first British-built oil-engined vessel designed for ocean service.^[6]
16 October – new building for the Mitchell Library opened in Glasgow.^[7]
Royal Engineers balloon squadron sets up a training camp in Tentsmuir Forest on the Fife coast, predecessor of Leuchars Station.
The Pavilion opened at Ayr.

11 February – Alec Cairncross, economist (died 1998)
11 March – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, soldier, writer and politician (died 1996)
24 January – Muir Mathieson, film composer (died 1975)
14 May – Sir John Ritchie Inch, police Chief Constable (died 1993)
31 May – Leonard Boden, portrait painter (died 1999)
16 June – Bobby Ancell football player and manager (died 1987)
9 July – Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat and Commando (died 1995)
26 October – Sorley MacLean, poet (died 1996)
4 December – William Baxter, Labour MP for West Stirlingshire (1959–1974) (died 1979)

Release of Rob Roy, the first British-made three-reel feature film, shot by the Scottish company United Films Ltd in studios at Rouken Glen on the edge of Glasgow and on location in Aberfoyle.^[8]
Violet Jacob's historical novel Flemington is published.
Harry Lauder writes the popular song "Roamin' In The Gloamin'".
Ayr Picture Palace opens, the town's first purpose-built cinema.^[9]

^ ^a ^b "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
^ "The Singer strike 1911". Glasgow Digital Library. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
^ "Singer Sewing Factory strike – 1911". Scotland’s History. BBC. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
^ "The Scottish Exhibition of History, Art and Industry - Glasgow 1911". Exhibition Study Group. 2004. Archived from the original on 11 June 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
^ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
^ "100 years of motor ships". The Motorship. 1 February 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
^ "Lord Rosebery On Books: The Mitchell Library in Glasgow". The Times. No. 39718. London. 17 October 1911. p. 4.
^ Merz, Caroline (19 December 2012). "Where are they now? Early Scottish feature films". Early Cinema in Scotland, 1896-1927. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
^ "Picture Palace". Scottish Cinemas. Retrieved 11 February 2021.