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1936 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1936 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — George V (until 20 January), Edward VIII (20 January–11 December), George VI
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Sir Godfrey Collins until 29 October; then Walter Elliot

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — Thomas Mackay Cooper
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Albert Russell until June; then James Reid

    • Judiciary

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Normand
  • Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Aitchison
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord MacGregor Mitchell

    • Events

  • 27 January–31 January - The Combined Scottish Universities by-election sees Ramsay MacDonald returned to the House of Commons
  • March — Scottish Ornithologists' Club founded
  • 8 March — Cartoon characters The Broons and Oor Wullie first appear in The Sunday Post
  • 7 June — First radio outside broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC
  • 10 June — First timetabled service to Barra Airport, on Traigh Mhòr beach, offered by Northern & Scottish Airways
  • 23 September — Prince Albert and his wife, the Duchess of York, open a new wing of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while his brother Edward VIII meets Wallis Simpson at Aberdeen railway station en route to Balmoral Castle
  • 29 October — Kincardine Bridge opened across the Firth of Forth

    • Births

  • 7 January — Hunter Davies, writer
  • 10 February — James Alexander Gordon, radio announcer (died 2014 in England)
  • 4 March — Jim Clark, motor racing driver (killed 1968 in motor racing accident at Hockenheimring, Germany)
  • 27 May — Eric Anderson, born William Kinloch Anderson, educator, Provost of Eton College
  • 25 June — Roy Williamson, folk musician (died 1990)
  • 26 June — Robert Maclennan, Liberal Democrat politician
  • 27 June — Robin Hall, folk singer (died 1998)
  • 9 July — Richard Wilson, actor
  • 18 September — Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1987)
  • 6 October — Sandra Voe, actress
  • 25 November — William McIlvanney, novelist, short story writer and poet (died 2015)
  • Marion Chesney, novelist
  • Stewart Conn, poet and playwright

    • Deaths

  • 6 February — Charles Bellany Thomson, international footballer (born 1878)
  • 23 February — William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1917–1921) and Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and 1929-1931 (born 1863)
  • 9 April — William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, industrialist (born 1856)
  • 22 November — Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, soldier and clan chief (born 1835)

    • The Arts

  • Edwin Muir publishes Scott and Scotland.

    • References

    1936 in Scotland Wikipedia
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