1932 in Scotland

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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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