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1935 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1935 in
Scotland
.
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See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1935 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1934–35
•
1935–36
Incumbents
edit
Secretary of State for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Sir Godfrey Collins
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Wilfrid Normand
until April; then
Douglas Jamieson
until December; then
Thomas Mackay Cooper
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Douglas Jamieson
until April;
vacant
until May; then
Thomas Mackay Cooper
until December; then
Albert Russell
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Clyde
until 1 April; then
Lord Normand
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Aitchison
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
–
Lord MacGregor Mitchell
Events
edit
31 March
&
5 December
–
Glasgow Subway
electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectively
[1]
16 May
–
Thomas Mackay Cooper
becomes
Solicitor General for Scotland
,
[2]
replacing
Douglas Jamieson
22 June
–
Kerr's Miniature Railway
at
Arbroath
opens for business
[3]
9 September
– Glaswegian
flyweight
Benny Lynch
becomes the first Scottish
boxing
world champion in a bout in
Manchester
[4]
mid–late September –
Lancaster
general practitioner
Buck Ruxton
disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near
Moffat
23 October
– a footbridge across the
River Forth
at
Cambuskenneth
replaces a ferry
[5]
2 November
– Scottish-born thriller-writer
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
, is sworn in as
Governor General of Canada
14 November
–
UK General Election
: The
Communist Party of Great Britain
candidate,
Willie Gallacher
, wins the constituency of
West Fife
[6]
2 December
–
Albert Russell
becomes
Solicitor General for Scotland
,
[7]
replacing
Thomas Mackay Cooper
Edwin Muir
publishes
Scottish Journey
Births
edit
5 February
–
Alex Harvey
, glam rock musician (died 1982 in Belgium)
21 February
–
Mark McManus
, film and television actor (died
1994
)
[8]
2 March
–
Jackie Brown
, boxer (died
2020
)
4 March
–
Nancy Whiskey
, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
12 April
–
Keith Moffatt
, applied mathematician specialising in
magnetohydrodynamics
5 May
–
Eddie Linden
, poet and political activist
8 May
–
Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland
, politician
9 May
–
Zander Wedderburn
,
psychologist
(died
2017
)
7 June
–
William Stewart
, biologist and academic
16 July
–
Douglas Henderson
,
SNP
politician and Member of Parliament 1974–79 (died
2006
)
[9]
10 August
–
John MacLeod of MacLeod
, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
27 August
–
Eddie Connachan
, goalkeeper (died 2021 in South Africa)
15 October
–
Richard McTaggart
, boxer
23 October
–
Ewan Hooper
, actor
22 November
–
Hugh C. Rae
, novelist (died
2014
)
3 December
–
Robin Neillands
writer specialising in travel and military history (died 2006)
26 December
–
Stevie Chalmers
, footballer (died
2019
)
31 December
–
Jeff Torrington
, novelist (died
2008
)
Jack Alexander of
The Alexander Brothers
, folk singer (died
2013
)
Donald Forbes
, criminal, "Scotland's most dangerous man" (died
2008
)
Hamish MacDonald
,
impressionist
and
colourist painter
(died
2008
)
Deaths
edit
12 March
–
Malcolm Smith
, Liberal Party politician and MP (born
1856
)
16 March
–
John James Rickard Macleod
, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born
1876
)
22 April
–
Frederick Farrell
, watercolourist, war artist (born
1882
)
28 April
–
Sir Alexander Mackenzie
, composer (born
1847
)
5 June
–
James Manson
, mechanical engineer (born
1845
)
22 June
–
George Brisbane Scott Douglas
, poet and writer (born 1856 in
Gibraltar
)
27 September
–
William W. Naismith
, mountaineer (born
1856
)
11 October
–
Samuel Peploe
, painter (born
1871
)
16 October
–
Margaret Moyes Black
, novelist and biographer (born
1853
)
22 November
–
Noel Skelton
, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (born
1880
)
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1935 in Northern Ireland
References
edit
^
Wright, John; Maclean, Ian (1997).
Circles Under the Clyde: a history of the Glasgow Underground
. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. pp. 58–87.
ISBN
1-85414-190-2
.
^
"No. 15174".
The Edinburgh Gazette
. 17 May 1935. p. 424.
^
Little, Lawson (2000).
Kerr's Miniature Railway: Scotland's Oldest Small-Scale Line
. The Narrow Gauge, no. 169. Narrow Gauge Railway Society.
ISBN
0-9507169-9-5
.
^
"Boxing News – Fighter Bios – Benny Lynch – Former world flyweight champion".
SecondsOut
. Retrieved
24 May
2014
.
^
"The Flag in the Wind: Notable Dates in History".
The Scots Independent
. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014
. Retrieved
21 July
2014
.
^
"William Gallacher". Renfrewshire Council. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013
. Retrieved
8 June
2014
.
^
"No. 15231".
The Edinburgh Gazette
. 3 December 1935. p. 1021.
^
"Obituary: Mark McManus".
The Independent
. 6 June 1994
. Retrieved
27 November
2022
.
^
Wilson, Brian (25 September 2006). "Obituary: Douglas Henderson".
The Guardian
. Retrieved
24 February
2018
.