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1953 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1953 in
Scotland
.
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See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1953 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1952–53
•
1953–54
1953 in Scottish television
Incumbents
edit
Secretary of State for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
James Stuart
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
James Latham Clyde
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
William Rankine Milligan
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Cooper
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Thomson
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
–
Lord Gibson
Events
edit
30 January
– The cargo vessel
Clan MacQuarrie
runs aground near
Borve, Lewis
in a storm; all 66 crew are rescued by
breeches buoy
the following morning.
[1]
31 January
– The car ferry
MV
Princess Victoria
, sailing from
Stranraer
to
Larne
in
Northern Ireland
, sinks in the
Irish Sea
in a storm killing 133 people on board.
[2]
Fleetwood trawler
Michael Griffiths
sinks seven miles south of
Barra Head
with the loss of 13 crew.
[1]
9 February
–
Fraserburgh
life-boat
John and Charles Kennedy
capsizes
on service: six crew killed.
5 March
–
PS
Maid of the Loch
, the last full-size
paddle steamer
built in the UK, is launched on the
River Clyde
at
A. & J. Inglis
's Pointhouse Shipyard. On 25 May, she enters excursion service on
Loch Lomond
.
c. March – New Bridge Street Bridge across
Peterhead
harbour completed, the last
Scherzer rolling lift bridge
erected by
Sir William Arrol & Co.
of Glasgow.
16 April
–
The Queen
launches the
Royal Yacht
Britannia
at
John Brown & Company
shipbuilders at
Clydebank
.
[3]
20 May
–
Celtic F.C.
beat
Hibernian
2-0 in the final of the
Coronation Cup (football)
at
Hampden Park
.
[4]
20 June
– Most of the population of the island of
Soay, Skye
, moves to the
Isle of Mull
.
24 June
– First state visit of Queen
Elizabeth II
to Scotland since her accession; the
Honours of Scotland
are carried before the monarch for the first time since 1822
[5]
and presented to her at
St Giles' Cathedral
, Edinburgh.
22 July
–
Great Bernera
is connected to
Lewis
by Scotland's first
prestressed concrete
girder bridge.
[6]
8 August
– The northbound
Royal Scot
train
derails near
Abington
descending from
Beattock Summit
due to buckling of track caused by high temperature; 37 are injured.
[7]
27 October
–
Arbroath
life-boat
Robert Lindsay
capsizes
on service: six crew killed.
Scottish law case of
MacCormick v Lord Advocate
decides that the right of
Elizabeth II
to so
style
herself in Scotland is a matter of
royal prerogative
.
IBM
establishes a manufacturing facility in
Greenock
.
Births
edit
1 January
–
Maureen Beattie
, Irish-born actress
6 January
–
Malcolm Young
, rock guitarist (died
2017 in Australia
)
11 January
–
John Sessions
, born John Gibb Marshall, actor and comedian (died
2020
)
20 January
–
John Robertson
, international footballer
27 February
–
Gavin Esler
, television journalist
6 April
–
Patrick Doyle
, film composer
6 May
Tony Blair
,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
, 1997-2007
Graeme Souness
, international footballer and manager
19 May
–
Patrick Hodge
, lawyer, a
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
21 May
–
Jim Devine
, Labour politician
[8]
22 May
–
Andy Nisbet
, mountaineer (died
2019
)
23 May
–
Ronald Frame
, fiction writer
7 June
Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby
, lawyer and judge
Dougie Donnelly
, television presenter
23 June
–
John Stahl
, actor (died
2022
)
[9]
24 August
–
Sam Torrance
, golfer
31 August
–
Jimmy McKenna
, actor
8 September
–
John McGlynn
, actor
10 September
–
John Thurso
, born John Sinclair, businessman and
Liberal Democrat
politician
28 September
–
Jim Diamond
, pop singer-songwriter (died
2015
)
21 October
–
Eric Faulkner
, pop musician
4 November
–
Derek Johnstone
, international footballer
12 November
–
Calum MacDonald
, Celtic rock songwriter and percussionist
22 December
–
Gregor Fisher
, actor and comedian
Steven Campbell
, figurative painter (died
2007
)
Ian Read
, businessman
Deaths
edit
19 March
–
Thomas Hunter
,
Unionist Party
politician and
Member of Parliament
(MP) for
Perth
(born
1872
)
1 June
–
Alex James
, international footballer (born
1901
)
23 July
– Sir
Thomas Jaffrey
, actuary (born
1861
)
30 September
–
Lewis Fry Richardson
, mathematical physicist (born 1881 in England)
The arts
edit
April – Comedy film
Laxdale Hall
is released.
Lewis Spence
's
Collected Poems
are published in Edinburgh.
See also
edit
1953 in Northern Ireland
References
edit
^
a
b
"Clan Macquarrie – historic rescue at Borve".
Stornoway Gazette
. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014
. Retrieved
22 July
2014
.
^
"130 die in ferry disaster".
On This Day
.
BBC
. 31 January 1953. Archived from the original on 8 January 2008
. Retrieved
10 January
2008
.
^
"Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia".
On This Day
. BBC. 16 April 1953. Archived from the original on 21 January 2008
. Retrieved
10 January
2008
.
^
"The green shoots of recovery with Hibs".
Scotland On Sunday
. 10 September 2005.
^
"Notable Dates in History".
The Flag in the Wind
. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014
. Retrieved
22 July
2014
.
^
"Great Bernera Bridge". Archived from the original on 11 November 2010
. Retrieved
18 May
2014
.
^
"Accident at Abington on 8th August 1953".
Railways Archive
. Retrieved
22 July
2014
.
^
"WPR - Jim Devine (Ex-MP)". 15 July 2011. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011.
^
"John Stahl obituary".
the Guardian
. 31 March 2022
. Retrieved
20 May
2022
.