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1910 in Scotland

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Centuries:
  
18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s

Events from the year 1910 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Edward VII (until 6 May), George V
  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — Alexander Ure
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Arthur Dewar; then William Hunter

    • Judiciary

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

    • Events

  • June — Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
  • 17 September — Andrew Blain Baird makes the first powered monoplane flight in Scotland, at Ettrick Bay on the Isle of Bute in a self-built machine.
  • 19 December — Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow opened
  • The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith.

    • Births

  • 6 May — Jerry Morris, epidemiologist (died 2009)
  • 10 March — Jane Duncan, born Elizabeth Jane Cameron, novelist (died 1976)
  • 17 March — Molly Weir, actress (died 2004 in London)
  • 19 April — Andrew Gilchrist, Special Operations Executive operative, and later ambassador (died 1993)
  • 23 April — Sheila Scott Macintyre, mathematician (died 1960)
  • 15 July — George Friel, novelist (died 1975)
  • 14 November — Norman MacCaig, poet (died 1996)
  • December — Ian Donald, physician, pioneer in the use of Medical ultrasonography (died 1987)

    • Deaths

  • 18 January — James Cuthbertson, Scottish-Australian poet and schoolteacher (born 1851)
  • 2 April — William McTaggart, landscape and marine painter (born 1835)
  • 6 April — John McLaren, Lord McLaren, Liberal politician (born 1831)
  • 13 April — William Quiller Orchardson, portraitist and painter (born 1832)
  • 15 April — John Smith - dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator (born 1825)
  • 10 May — William Gordon Stables, naval physician and novelist (born 1840)
  • Robert Boog Watson, malacologist and Free Church minister (born 1823)

    • References

    1910 in Scotland Wikipedia
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