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1955 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1955 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Elizabeth II
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — James Stuart

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — James Latham Clyde until January; then William Rankine Milligan
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — William Rankine Milligan until January; then William Grant

    • Judiciary

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

    • Events

  • 24 February — A big freeze across Britain results in many roads being blocked with snow; Caithness is practically cut off. The Royal Air Force works to deliver food and medical supplies to the worst affected areas.
  • 21 March — American evanglist Billy Graham begins a 7-week Scottish crusade at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.
  • 1 April — The South of Scotland Electricity Board is formed by merger.
  • 23 April — The Scottish Cup Final is broadcast live on television for the first time. Clyde F.C. draw 1-1 with Celtic, winning the replay 1-0.
  • 19 May — Greenock Coin Hoard found.
  • 27 May — United Kingdom general election: In Scotland, as throughout the U.K. as a whole, the Conservatives have a majority of seats.
  • 25 June — The Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer STOL transport aircraft, built at Prestwick, first flies.
  • 30 June — Two Hawker Sea Hawk jet fighters flying from RNAS Lossiemouth independently crash into the North Sea; one pilot is killed.
  • 25–27 July — 'Operation Sandcastle': The first load of deteriorating captured Nazi German bombs filled with Tabun (nerve agent) is shipped from Cairnryan on the SS Empire Claire for scuttling in the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 30 September — First electricity supply to the isolated railway community at Riccarton Junction.
  • 10 November — A major fire in Edinburgh destroys the footwear warehouse of C. W. Carr Aitkman in Jeffrey Street.
  • 11 November — A second major fire in Edinburgh largely destroys the C&A fashion store in Princes Street.
  • 9 December — Cumbernauld is designated a New town.
  • 14 December — RMS Carinthia is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard on Clydebank for the Cunard Line's Canadian service.
  • The world's first Museum of Childhood is opened on Edinburgh's Royal Mile by Patrick Murray.
  • Archaeological excavations on St Ninian's Isle begin.

    • Births

  • 18 January — Robin Wales, Labour politician, mayor of the London Borough of Newham
  • 3 February — Kirsty Wark, television presenter
  • 19 March — John Burnside, writer
  • 31 March — Angus Young, rock musician
  • 23 April — Allan Forsyth, footballer
  • 2 May — Willie Miller, footballer
  • 14 May — Alasdair Fraser, fiddler
  • 4 June — Val McDermid, crime novelist
  • 13 June — Alan Hansen, footballer and television presenter
  • 1 July — Candia McWilliam, fiction writer
  • 8 July — Douglas Flint, banker
  • 25 August — John McGeoch guitarist (died 2004 in England)
  • 11 October — Sally Magnusson, journalist and broadcast presenter
  • 12 October — Aggie MacKenzie, television presenter
  • 28 October — Jeff Stewart, actor
  • 12 November — Les McKeown, pop-rock singer
  • 22 November — Mary Macmaster, harpist
  • 2 December — Janice Galloway, writer
  • 6 December — Anne Begg, Labour politician
  • 23 December — Carol Ann Duffy, poet
  • John Stroyan, Anglican bishop

    • Deaths

  • 26 February — Agnes Mure Mackenzie, writer and historian (born 1891)
  • 3 March — Lewis Spence, writer and folklorist (born 1874)
  • 11 March — Sir Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1881; died in London)
  • 22 April — Herbert MacNair, artist (born 1868)
  • 11 October — Hector McNeil, politician (born 1907)
  • Mary Newbery Sturrock, artist and designer (born 1890)
  • Salvador Ysart, glassblower (born 1878 in Barcelona)

    • The Arts

  • Robin Jenkins's novel The Cone Gatherers is published.
  • Sandy MacMillan, Thomas Limond and Ross Taylor's Scots language nursery rhyme collection Bairnsangs is published, as by Sandy Thomas Ross.
  • Edith Anne Robertson's Scots language poetry collections Voices frae the city o trees; and ither voices frae nearbye and Poems Frae the Suddron O Walter De La Mare Made Ower Intil Scots are published.

    • References

    1955 in Scotland Wikipedia
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