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1925 in Scotland

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Centuries:
  
18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Events from the year 1925 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — George V
  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Sir John Gilmour, Bt

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — William Watson
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — David Fleming until December; then Alexander Munro MacRobert

    • Judiciary

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Clyde
  • Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Alness
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord St Vigeans

    • Events

  • 18 April — The dam of Skelmorlie reservoir bursts, flooding the village and killing 5.
  • 21 March — Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, home of the Scottish Rugby Union, opens with Scotland defeating England 14-11.
  • 16 May — The war memorial on the Law, Dundee, is inaugurated.
  • 7 July — The original Kelvin Hall in Glasgow is destroyed by fire.
  • 7 August — National Library of Scotland established by Act of Parliament to take over the national responsibilities of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh.
  • 2 October — John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image, in London.
  • 29 December — Alexander Munro MacRobert appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing David Fleming
  • The uninhabited Shiant Isles are acquired by writer and island-lover Compton Mackenzie.

    • Births

  • 18 February — Russell Hunter, actor (died 2004)
  • 29 May — Mick McGahey, Communist miners' leader (died 1999)
  • 3 June — Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow and Cardinal (died 2001)
  • 30 July — Alexander Trocchi, novelist (died 1984)
  • 28 October — Ian Hamilton Finlay, poet and sculptor (died 2006)

    • Deaths

  • 11 January — John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, Liberal Party MP, soldier, peer, administrator (born 1860)
  • 21 April — John Quinton Pringle, painter (born 1865)
  • Henry J. Watt, experimental psychologist (born 1879)

    • The Arts

  • John Buchan's novel John Macnab is published.
  • Hugh MacDiarmid's synthetic Scots poetry Sangshaw is published.

    • References

    1925 in Scotland Wikipedia
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