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1943 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1943 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — George VI
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Tom Johnston

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — James Reid
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Sir David King Murray

    • Judiciary

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Normand
  • Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Cooper
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Gibson

    • Events

  • 11 February — In the Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, the radical socialist Common Wealth Party candidate Tom Wintringham comes close to winning the seat (which is held for the Unionist Party by Sir David King Murray).
  • 27 March — Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Dasher (D37) is destroyed by an accidental explosion in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379 of the crew of 528.
  • 21 April — Worst bombing of Aberdeen.
  • 30 May — Royal Navy submarine HMS Untamed (P58) is lost on a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde with all hands.
  • 19 June — Jackie Paterson wins the world flyweight boxing title by a knockout in the first minute at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
  • 5 August — North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board established by Act of Parliament.
  • 11 November — Total evacuation of an area near Portmahomack in Easter Ross begins, to make way for rehearsal of the Normandy Landings.
  • 2 December — Broughty Ferry pigeon Winkie, serving with the Royal Air Force, is among the first recipients of the Dickin Medal, instituted to honour the work of animals in war.
  • The last crofting family leaves the island of South Rona.
  • Ferranti open a plant at Crewe Toll in Edinburgh, originally to manufacture gyro gunsights for aircraft.

    • Births

  • 23 January — Ernie Hannigan, footballer (died 2015 in Australia)
  • 18 February — Graeme Garden, author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, one of The Goodies
  • 19 April — Margo MacDonald, politician (died 2014)
  • 10 May — Jack Bruce, rock musician (died 2014)
  • 22 June — J. Michael Kosterlitz, Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
  • 20 August — Sylvester McCoy, born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, actor
  • 24 November — Robin Williamson, acoustic musician
  • Alan Bold, poet and biographer (died 1998)

    • Deaths

  • 15 October — William Soutar, poet (born 1898)
  • 23 December — George Henry, painter (born 1858)

    • The Arts

  • November — Sorley MacLean's first collection of Gaelic poems, Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile, is published.
  • Poetry Scotland magazine founded in Glasgow by Maurice Lindsay.

    • References

    1943 in Scotland Wikipedia
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