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1906 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1906 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Edward VII
  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — John Sinclair

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — Thomas Shaw
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Alexander Ure

    • Judiciary

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Dunedin
  • Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh

    • Events

  • 27 January — Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland is launched at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at Govan.
  • 23 May — Boyd's Automatic tide signalling apparatus is inaugurated at Irvine, North Ayrshire.
  • 7 June — Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank as the world's largest ship.
  • 26 June — New Argyll Motor Works is opened for production of the Argyll car at Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire.
  • 19 July — 1906 Dundee fire: a major fire breaks out in a bonded warehouse.
  • 18 August — Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway opened to passengers.
  • 28 December — Elliot Junction rail accident between Arbroath and Carnoustie railway stations kills 22.
  • Yarrow Shipbuilders begin their move from London to Scotstoun.

    • Births

  • 4 March — Fionn MacColla, novelist connected to the Scottish Renaissance (died 1975)
  • 13 March — Alex Massie, international footballer (died 1977)
  • 22 June — Gilbert Highet, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian (died 1978 in the United States)
  • 1 July — Ritchie Calder, socialist author, journalist and academic (died 1982)
  • 18 July — Belle Stewart, née McGregor, traditional singer (died 1997)
  • 29 July — Ian Gordon Lindsay, architect (died 1966)
  • 30 September — J. I. M. Stewart, novelist and academic critic (died 1994)
  • 12 December — Robert Matthew, modernist architect (died 1975)
  • Molly Urquhart, actress (died 1977)

    • Deaths

  • 15 May — James Blyth, electrical engineer (born 1839)
  • 30 November — William Stewart Ross, writer and publisher (born 1844)

    • The Arts

  • May — Stan Laurel makes his stage debut, at the Britannia Panopticon in Glasgow.
  • 3 December — His Majesty's Theatre opens in Aberdeen.
  • Hugh S. Roberton forms the Glasgow Orpheus Choir.

    • References

    1906 in Scotland Wikipedia
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