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1934 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1934 in
Scotland
.
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1933
1932
1931
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1935
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1938
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Centuries:
18th
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Decades:
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1934 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1933–34
•
1934–35
Incumbents
edit
Secretary of State for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Sir Godfrey Collins
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Wilfrid Normand
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Douglas Jamieson
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Clyde
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Aitchison
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court
–
Lord St Vigeans
, then
Lord MacGregor Mitchell
Events
edit
14 & 16 January – Christina MacLennan gives birth to
twins
, the first on the island of
Scarp
in the county of
Inverness-shire
and the second in
Stornoway
in the county of
Ross and Cromarty
.
[1]
3 April
– work on construction of "Hull 534", the
ocean liner
RMS
Queen Mary
, at
John Brown & Company
's shipyard at
Clydebank
resumes after more than 2 years' suspension due to the
Great Depression
following a financial agreement between the
Cunard Line
and the British government.
7 April
– the
Scottish National Party
is formed by merger of the
National Party of Scotland
and the
Scottish Party
. On 20 April it holds its first public meeting, in Edinburgh.
[2]
21 April
– the "surgeon's photograph" of the
Loch Ness Monster
, much later admitted to be a hoax, is published in the
Daily Mail
(London).
[3]
29 May
– first regular domestic
airmail
service, inaugurated by
Highland Airways
between
Inverness
and
Kirkwall
.
[4]
28 & 31 July –
Gerhard Zucker
launches
rocket mail
experimentally between the
Outer Hebridean
islands of Scarp and
Harris
; in both attempts the powder rockets explode.
[5]
[6]
[7]
26 September
– launching of the
RMS
Queen Mary
at Clydebank.
25 December
– dedication of the permanent
St Columba's Cathedral
at
Oban
,
Mother Church
of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles
.
Sandray
becomes uninhabited.
Gordonstoun
school established in
Moray
.
Original
Barrowland Ballroom
building is opened in Glasgow by "Barra Queen" Maggie McIver.
[8]
Agnes Mure Mackenzie
publishes the historical biography
Robert Bruce, King of Scots
.
Births
edit
12 January
–
I. Howard Marshall
, theologian (died
2015
)
2 February
–
Hugh McIlvanney
, sports journalist (died 2019)
12 February
–
Annette Crosbie
, actress
8 March
–
John McLeod
, composer (died
2022
)
[9]
11 March
–
John D. Burgess
, bagpipe player (died
2005
)
17 March
–
Pat Gerber
, author mainly known for children's books (died
2006
)
7 April
–
Ian Richardson
, actor (died
2007
)
[10]
17 April
–
Bill Douglas
, film director, (died 1991 in
Bishop's Tawton
)
24 April
–
John Cameron, Lord Coulsfield
, judge (died
2016
)
5 May
–
Jim Reid
, folk musician (died
2009
)
10 May
–
Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet
, businessman (died
2022
)
11 May
–
Mark Boyle
, artist (died
2005
)
28 August
–
John Stephen
, menswear entrepreneur (died 2004 in England)
21 September
–
David J. Thouless
, condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physics
(died 2019 in Cambridge)
14 November
–
Dave Mackay
, footballer and manager (died 2015 in England)
30 November
–
Aileen Paterson
, writer and illustrator, best known for her series of children's books about
Maisie MacKenzie
the kitten (died
2018
)
28 December
–
Alasdair Gray
, novelist, artist, playwright, academic, teacher and poet (died
2019
)
Tom Alexander of
The Alexander Brothers
, folk singer (died
2020
)
Alasdair Grant Taylor
, artist and sculptor (died
2007
)
Deaths
edit
18 April
–
Catherine Cranston
, tearoom proprietor (born
1849
)
3 November
–
Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet
, founder of the construction firm now called
Sir Robert McAlpine
(born
1847
)
14 November
–
John Joy Bell
, writer, creator of Wee Macgreegor (born
1871
)
18 December
–
Peter Hodge
, referee and football manager (born
1871
)
Esther Blaikie MacKinnon
, artist, known for her paintings and engravings (born
1885
)
The arts
edit
September – English actor
John Le Mesurier
(under his birth name John Halliley) makes his professional stage debut, with the
Millicent Ward Repertory Players
at the
Palladium Theatre, Edinburgh
, in
J. B. Priestley
's
Dangerous Corner
.
Helen Cruickshank
's poems
Up the Noran Water
published.
Hugh MacDiarmid
's
Stony Limits and Other Poems
published.
Nan Shepherd
's poems
In the Cairngorms
published.
See also
edit
1934 in Northern Ireland
References
edit
^
"The Lost Islands". Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014
. Retrieved
19 May
2014
.
^
"Notable Dates in History".
The Flag in the Wind
. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014
. Retrieved
21 July
2014
.
^
Martin, David; Boyd, Alastair (1999).
Nessie – the Surgeon's Photograph Exposed
. East Barnet: authors.
ISBN
0-9535708-0-0
.
^
Blake, Richard.
The Book of Postal Dates, 1635-1985
. Caterham: Marden. p. 29.
^
"Rocket".
The British Postal Museum & Archive
. Archived from the original on 11 December 2005
. Retrieved
7 May
2014
.
^
Wade, Mark (28 March 2005). "Zucker Rocket".
Encyclopedia Astronautica
. Archived from the original on 23 February 2003
. Retrieved
7 May
2014
.
^
Beith, Richard (1981).
Scottish Air Mails 1919-1979
. Dunblane: author. p. 84.
^
Chadha, Linda. "Maggie McIver". Glasgow Women's Library
. Retrieved
23 January
2017
.
^
"Scotsman Obituaries: John McLeod CBE, Scottish composer and conductor".
www.scotsman.com
. Retrieved
20 May
2022
.
^
Billington, Michael (10 February 2007). "Obituary: Ian Richardson".
The Guardian
. Retrieved
12 January
2018
.