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1926 in Scotland 
Summary
Events from the year 1926 in Scotland.
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| See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1926 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1925–26 • 1926–27 | ||||
Incumbents edit
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt until post abolished 26 July
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal, from 15 July – Sir John Gilmour, Bt
Law officers edit
Judiciary edit
Events edit
- 29 January – Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire by-elections: Conservatives retain the seats.
- 26 March – Bothwell by-election: Labour retains the seat.
- 3 – 12 May: 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Some violence in Glasgow.
- 26 November – launch, under the auspices of the Scots National League, of a new monthly Nationalist newspaper entitled The Scots Independent.[1]
- Findhorn Bridge near Tomatin completed.[2]
- First stage of Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme constructed.
- Scotland's only sugar beet processing plant is opened at Cupar.
- Sacramento River sternwheel paddle steamers Delta King and Delta Queen are shipped from William Denny and Brothers' yard at Dumbarton to California.
- The post of Secretary for Scotland upgraded to a full Secretary of State appointment
Births edit
- 13 January – Craigie Aitchison, painter (died 2009)
- 17 January – Moira Shearer, ballet dancer (died 2006 in England)[3]
- 11 February – Alexander Gibson, conductor and opera intendant (died 1995)
- 19 February – Charlie Cox, footballer (died 2008)
- 8 March – Edith MacArthur, actress (died 2018)
- 12 March – Gudrun Ure, actress
- 22 March – Alastair Reid, poet and scholar of South American literature (died 2014 in the United States)
- 1 April – William Macpherson, High Court judge and clan chief (died 2021)[4]
- 3 April – Andrew Keir, actor (died 1997 in England)
- 22 April – James Stirling, architect (died 1992 in England)
- 24 May – Stanley Baxter, comic actor
- 31 May – Duncan Campbell, trumpet player (died 2013 in England)
- 2 July – Morag Beaton, dramatic soprano (died 2010 in Australia)
- 3 August – Rona Anderson, actress (died 2013 in England)[5]
- 15 August – D. E. R. Watt, historian (died 2004)
- 4 September – George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of liquid crystal technology (died 2013)
- 12 September – Dave Valentine, international rugby player (died 1976)
- 17 October – Archie Duncan, historian (died 2017)
- 9 November – Johnny Beattie, comedian (died 2020)
Deaths edit
- 2 January – John Gray McKendrick, physiologist, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow (born 1841)
- 3 February – Archibald White Maconochie, businessman and MP (born 1855)[6]
- 4 April – John McTavish footballer (born 1885)
- 31 July – John McPherson, international footballer (born 1868)
- 4 September – Alexander Morison McAldowie, physician, folklorist and ornithologist (born 1852)
The arts edit
- 22 November – Hugh MacDiarmid's Scots language poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is published.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ About Us Archived 30 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine www.scotsindependent.org, accessed 18 May 2013.
- ^ "Findhorn Bridge". Canmore. Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
- ^ Clarke, Mary (2 February 2006). "Obituary: Moira Shearer". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^ Flockhart, Gary (15 February 2021). "Sir William Macpherson: Judge in Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry dies aged 94". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ Bergan, Ronald (9 August 2013). "Rona Anderson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
- ^ "Turning Back the Clock: the Maconochie brothers, iconic Lowestoft employers who fed an army". Lowestoft Journal. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2019.