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1951 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1951 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — George VI
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Hector McNeil until 26 October; then James Stuart

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — John Thomas Wheatley until November; then James Latham Clyde
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Douglas Johnston until November; then William Rankine Milligan

    • Judiciary

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

    • Events

  • 11 April — The Stone of Scone is located in Forfar, having been stolen by Scottish Nationalists.
  • 12 May — Remains of Gunnister Man found in a peat bog in Shetland.
  • 18–26 May — Festival of Britain: Festival Ship Campania on view in Dundee (King George V Dock).
  • 25 May–8 September — Festival of Britain: Living Traditions exhibition presented at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, by the Council of Industrial Design.
  • 28 May–18 August — Festival of Britain: Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow (opened by The Princess Elizabeth).
  • 18 September–6 October — Festival of Britain: Festival Ship Campania on view in Glasgow (Springfield Dock).
  • 30 October — James Stuart is appointed Secretary of State for Scotland; he will hold office until January 1957.
  • November — Ecurie Ecosse motor racing team founded by Edinburgh businessman and racing driver David Murray and mechanic Wilkie Wilkinson.
  • 7 November — First floodlit Association football match in Scotland, a Stenhousemuir v. Hibernian F.C. friendly at the former's Ochilview Park.
  • 24 November — Beinn Eighe becomes Britain's first national nature reserve.
  • Publication of The Third Statistical Account of Scotland commences with the volume for Ayrshire.

    • Births

  • 2 February — Ken Bruce, radio broadcaster
  • 7 February — Eddie Kelly, footballer
  • 20 February — Gordon Brown, Labour politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2007–10
  • 4 March — Kenny Dalglish, international footballer and manager
  • 25 April — Ian McCartney, Labour politician
  • 9 August — James Naughtie, print and radio journalist
  • 22 August — Alex Neil, Scottish National Party MSP and government minister
  • 23 September — Andrew Greig, author
  • 26 September — Stuart Tosh, born Stuart MacIntosh, rock musician
  • 28 September — Jim Diamond, singer and songwriter (died 2015)
  • 17 November — Jack Vettriano, born Jack Hoggan, painter
  • 19 November — Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Labour politician and Lord Chancellor
  • 15 December — Joe Jordan, international footballer and manager
  • 20 December — Peter May, fiction writer

    • Deaths

  • 3 January — Peter McBride, footballer (born 1877)
  • 29 January — James Bridie (O. H. Mavor), playwright (born 1888)
  • 3 May — Sir Thomas Henderson, Liberal politician (born 1874)
  • 16 May — James Greenlees, rugby union footballer, educationalist and soldier (born 1878)
  • 9 September — Andrew Blain Baird, engineer and aviation pioneer (born 1862)
  • 1 October — Peter McWilliam, international footballer and manager (born 1879)
  • 11 October — Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, chief of Clan Cameron (born 1876)

    • The Arts

  • 19 May — Pitlochry Festival Theatre opens in a tent with the British première of Maxwell Anderson’s Mary of Scotland.

    • References

    1951 in Scotland Wikipedia
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