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1949 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1949 in
Scotland
.
←
1948
1947
1946
1945
1944
1949
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Scotland
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1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
Centuries:
18th
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20th
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Decades:
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1949 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1948–49
•
1949–50
Incumbents
edit
Secretary of State for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Arthur Woodburn
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
John Thomas Wheatley
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Douglas Johnston
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
3 April
–
Trolleybuses in Glasgow
introduced.
1 May
–
Scottish Gas Board
established.
4 May
– Fire at Grafton's fashion store in
Argyle Street, Glasgow
, kills 13 young women.
[1]
24 July
– People of
Alyth
march on Alyth Hill to assert their right of
commonty
over the land.
[2]
October – The
Scottish Covenant
, calling for the establishment of a legislative parliament within the United Kingdom, is drawn up by
John MacCormick
.
Undated
edit
Wendy Wood
founds the nationalist group, the Scottish Patriots
The
Law Society of Scotland
is established.
John Boyd Orr
receives the
Nobel Peace Prize
.
Births
edit
15 January
–
Craig Pritchett
, chess International Master
19 January
–
Lindsay Roy
, educator and politician
23 January
–
Tom Forsyth
, international footballer
25 January
–
Chris Lowe
, BBC News presenter
2 February
–
Duncan Bannatyne
, entrepreneur, philanthropist and author
9 February
–
Bernard Gallacher
, golfer
26 February
–
Lynda Clark
, judge and politician
6 March
–
Martin Buchan
, international footballer
7 March
–
Malcolm Chisholm
, Labour MSP
12 March
–
Glenn Chandler
playwright, novelist, producer and theatre director
13 March
–
Trevor Sorbie
, hairdresser
8 April
–
Alex Fergusson
, Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011 (died
2018
)
25 April
–
Alexis Jay
, social worker
21 May
–
Andrew Neil
, print and television journalist
4 June
–
Lou Macari
, international footballer and manager
21 June
–
Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth
, judge
4 July
–
Alex Miller
, footballer and manager
6 August
–
Erich Schaedler
, footballer (suicide
1985
)
8 August
–
Benny Young
, actor
11 August
–
Ian Charleson
, actor (died
1990
)
12 August
–
Mark Knopfler
, musician with
Dire Straits
20 August
–
Stewart Houston
, international footballer and manager
9 September
–
John Reid
, music manager
18 September
–
Alastair Campbell, Lord Bracadale
, judge
22 September
–
Jimmy Bone
, footballer and manager
29 September
–
Adrian Elrick
, international footballer representing New Zealand
8 October
–
Hamish Stuart
, guitarist, bassist, singer, composer and record producer
22 November
-
Paul le Page Barnett
science fiction writer, with pen name John Grant (died 2020)
25 November
–
Isabel Hilton
, journalist and broadcaster
28 December
–
Hilton McRae
, actor
Alison Kinnaird
,
glass
sculptor and harpist
Deaths
edit
2 January
– Sir
Victor Fortune
, British Army officer (born
1883
)
9 January
–
Edward Baird
, artist (born
1904
)
12 April
W. Lindsay Cable
, artist and illustrator (born
1900
)
John Wallace
, Liberal MP (born
1868
)
3 August
–
Jessie M. King
, illustrator and designer (born
1875
)
6 August
–
David Taylor
, footballer and manager (born
1883
)
7 October
-
Arthur Pillans Laurie
, chemist (born
1861
)
22 October
–
Alex McDonald
, footballer (born
1878
)
Joseph Lee
, poet and journalist (born
1876
)
Sport
edit
Summer –
The Ba game of Duns
revived.
See also
edit
1949 in Northern Ireland
References
edit
^
"Grafton's - 1949".
Glasgow Fire Journal
. 22 October 2012
. Retrieved
21 July
2014
.
^
Wightman, Andy (2010).
The Poor Had No Lawyers: who owns Scotland and how they got it
. Edinburgh: Birlinn. pp. 205–211.
ISBN
9781841589077
.