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1913 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1913 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — George V
  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Thomas McKinnon Wood

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — Alexander Ure; then Robert Munro
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Andrew Anderson; then Thomas Brash Morison

    • Judiciary

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Dunedin until 14 October; then Lord Strathclyde
  • Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Kennedy

    • Events

  • 26 February — The Royal Flying Corps establishes the first operational military airfield for fixed-wing aircraft in the United Kingdom at Montrose.
  • 21 April — The Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.
  • 27 May — Lieutenant Desmond Arthur dies when his Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 biplane, 205, collapses without warning while flying over Montrose, Scotland's first fatal aircraft accident.
  • 6 June — Stoneyetts Hospital is opened at East Muckcroft (later part of Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire), originally for the treatment of people with epilepsy.
  • 3 August — 22 men are killed by fire at Cadder colliery near Bishopbriggs.
  • Dollar, Clackmannanshire, becomes the first Scottish town to appoint a Lady Provost, Lavinia Malcolm.
  • Arrol-Johnston have a purpose-built car factory erected near Dumfries.
  • Alexanders' Motor Services, predecessor of W. Alexander & Sons, begins running 'omnibus' services in the Falkirk area from a base in Camelon.
  • The Neolithic site at Skara Brae on Mainland, Orkney, is plundered.
  • Coal mining production in Scotland peaks at 43.2 million tonnes, employing over 140,000 men and women, who, with their families, make up 10% of the Scottish population.

    • Births

  • 17 February — Alastair Borthwick, broadcaster and mountaineer (died 2003)
  • 6 March — Ella Logan, born Georgina Allan, musical theatre performer (died 1969 in the United States)
  • 18 March — W. H. Murray, mountaineer and writer (died 1996)
  • 2 April — Ronald Center, composer, (died 1973)
  • 2 April — Benny Lynch, flyweight boxer (died 1946)
  • 11 April — Winifred Drinkwater, aviator and first woman to hold a commercial pilot's license (died 1996 in New Zealand)
  • 13 April — Gordon Donaldson, historian (died 1993)
  • 10 May — Alan Gemmell, plant biologist (died 1986)
  • 5 June — Sam Black, artist and teacher (died 1997 in Canada)
  • 5 June — Douglas Young, classicist, poet and Scottish National Party leader (died 1973 in the United States)
  • 25 July — John Cairncross, spy (died 1995 in France)
  • 29 July — William George Nicholson Geddes, civil engineer (died 1993)
  • 29 July — Jo Grimond, Liberal party leader (died 1993)
  • 11 August — Andy Beattie, professional football player and manager, first manager of the Scottish national football team (died 1983)
  • 2 September — Bill Shankly, international footballer and manager (died 1981)
  • 15 December — Robert McIntyre, Scottish National Party leader (died 1998)
  • Robert MacBryde, still-life and figure painter, and theatre set designer (died 1966 in Dublin)

    • Deaths

  • 18 January — George Alexander Gibson, physician and geologist (born 1854)
  • 20 February — Sir William Arrol, civil engineering contractor (born 1839)
  • 12 May — William McEwan, Liberal Party MP (1886-1900) and brewer (born 1827)
  • 6 September — James Orr, Presbyterian minister, and professor of church history and of theology (born 1844)
  • 23 September — James Campbell Noble, painter (born 1832)
  • 21 November — James Howden, mechanical engineer (born 1846)
  • Sir George Reid, artist (born 1841)

    • References

    1913 in Scotland Wikipedia
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