1932_in_Scotland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1932 in Scotland.

Incumbents edit

26 May – the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.^[1]
26 September – first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.^[2]^[3]
16 November – a colliery explosion at Cardowan kills 11 miners.^[4]
Wendy Wood leads a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, at this time an Army barracks as well as a heritage attraction, to tear down the Union flag and replace it with a Scottish standard.
Finnieston Crane begins operation.^[5]
Etive Bridge, Stirling, built.
A flock of Soay sheep is translocated from Soay to Hirta (also in the depopulated St Kilda archipelago) by conservationist John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute.
Edinburgh Synagogue is opened.

4 January – Dick Douglas, Labour, later SNP, Member of Parliament (died 2014)
19 January – George MacBeth, poet and novelist (died 1992 in Ireland)
20 February – Tom Patey, mountaineer (died in climbing accident 1970)
24 February – Ian McNeill, footballer (died 2017)
12 March – Rory McEwen, artist and musician (died 1982 in England)
21 March – Thomas Welsh Watson, stage, television and film actor (died 2001)
8 April – Joan Lingard, writer (died 2022)^[6]
11 April – James Morrison, painter (died 2020)
4 May – Sandy MacAra, epidemiologist (died 2012 in England)
8 May – Phyllida Law, actress
15 May – Joseph Beltrami, defence lawyer (died 2015)
2 June
- Tom Nairn, political theorist and academic (died 2023)
- Jim Petrie, comic artist (died 2014)
5 June – Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, classical scholar (died 1981)
8 June – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, lawyer and judge (died 2017)
1 July – Donny MacLeod, television presenter (died 1984)
9 July – Jimmy Reid, trade unionist (died 2010)
9 August – Tam Dalyell, Labour Member of Parliament (died 2017)
13 August – John Bannerman, historian of Gaelic Scotland (died 2008)
3 October – Tommy Preston, footballer (died 2015)
11 October – Billie Anthony, born Philomena Levy, singer (died 1991 in England)
28 October – Ewen Fergusson, Scotland international rugby union player and diplomat (died 2017)
25 November – Maureen Swanson, actress, Countess of Dudley (died 2011)

8 January – William Graham, Scottish politician (born 1887)
25 January – James Paterson, painter (born 1854)
11 February – Robert Gibb, painter (born 1845)
31 March – Thomas David Anderson, amateur astronomer (born 1853)
14 April – Cynicus (Martin Anderson), satirical cartoonist and postcard publisher (born 1854)
8 July – John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, Sheriff 1900–20, Senator of the College of Justice 1930–28 (born 1857)
16 September – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (born 1860)
William Gillies, nationalist (born 1865)

Jenny Brown's short documentary film Da Makkin' O' A Keshie is made.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, first of his A Scots Quair trilogy, is published.
Fionn MacColla's novel The Albannach is published.

^ Chapman, Matthew (2010). The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson. London: Wildy, Simmons & Hill. ISBN 0-85490-049-7.
^ Hannington, Wal (1973). Unemployed Struggles, 1919-1936: My Life and Struggles Amongst the Unemployed. Barnes & Noble Books. p. 237. ISBN 0-85409-837-2.
^ Ewing, Keith D.; Gearty, C.A. (2001). The Struggle for Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in Britain, 1914-1945. Oxford University Press. p. 220. ISBN 0-19-876251-8.
^ "16th Nov 1932 - Cardowan, Stepps". Scottish Mining Website. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
^ Riddell, John F. (1979). Clyde Navigation: A History of the Development and Deepening of the River Clyde. Edinburgh: John Donald. p. 261. ISBN 9780859760454.
^ "Joan Lingard obituary". the Guardian. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.