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1932 in Scotland

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Godfrey Collins ⋅

Contents

Events from the year 1932 in Scotland.

Incumbents

  • Monarch — George V
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt until 28 September; then Sir Godfrey Collins

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — Craigie Mason Aitchison
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Wilfrid Normand

    • 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

  • 26 May — The Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.
  • 26 September — First contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.
  • 16 November — A colliery explosion at Cardowan kills 11 miners.
  • Wendy Wood leads a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, at this time an Army barracks as well as a heritage attraction, to tear down the Union flag and replace it with a Scottish standard.
  • Finnieston Crane begins operation.
  • Etive Bridge, Stirling, built.
  • A flock of Soay sheep is translocated from Soay to Hirta (also in the depopulated St Kilda archipelago) by conservationist John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute.

    • Births

  • 4 January — Dick Douglas, Labour, then SNP, Member of Parliament (died 2014)
  • 19 January — George MacBeth, poet and novelist (died 1992 in Ireland)
  • 20 February — Tom Patey, mountaineer (died in climbing accident 1970)
  • 8 May — Phyllida Law, actress
  • 15 May — Joseph Beltrami, defence lawyer (died 2015)
  • 2 June — Jim Petrie, comic artist (died 2014)
  • 8 June — Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, lawyer and judge
  • 1 July — Donny MacLeod, television presenter (died 1984)
  • 9 July — Jimmy Reid, trade unionist (died 2010)
  • 9 August — Tam Dalyell, Labour Member of Parliament (died 2017)
  • 13 August — John Bannerman, historian of Gaelic Scotland (died 2008)
  • 3 October — Tommy Preston, footballer (died 2015)

    • Deaths

  • 25 January — James Paterson, painter (born 1854)
  • 11 February — Robert Gibb, painter (born 1845)
  • 31 March — Thomas David Anderson, amateur astronomer (born 1853)
  • 8 July — John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, Sheriff 1900–20, Senator of the College of Justice 1930–28 (born 1857)
  • William Gillies, nationalist (born 1865)

    • The Arts

  • Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, first of his A Scots Quair trilogy, is published.
  • Fionn MacColla's novel The Albannach is published.

    • References

    1932 in Scotland Wikipedia
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