1913 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1913 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Thomas McKinnon Wood

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Alexander Ure; then Robert Munro
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Anderson; then Thomas Brash Morison

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin until 14 October; then Lord Strathclyde
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Kennedy

Events[]

Aquitania shortly before her launch
  • 26 February – the Royal Flying Corps establishes the first operational military airfield for fixed-wing aircraft in the United Kingdom at Montrose.[1]
  • 21 April – the Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.
  • 27 May – Lieutenant Desmond Arthur dies when his Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 biplane, 205, collapses without warning while flying over Montrose, Scotland's first fatal aircraft accident.
  • 6 June – Stoneyetts Hospital is opened at East Muckcroft (later part of Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire), originally for the treatment of people with epilepsy.[2]
  • 22 July – Edinburgh Zoo opens.
  • 3 August – 22 men are killed by fire at Cadder colliery near Bishopbriggs.[3]
  • Dollar, Clackmannanshire, becomes the first Scottish town to appoint a Lady Provost, Lavinia Malcolm.
  • Arrol-Johnston have a purpose-built car factory erected near Dumfries.
  • Alexanders' Motor Services, predecessor of W. Alexander & Sons, begins running 'omnibus' services in the Falkirk area from a base in Camelon.[4]
  • Temperance (Scotland) Act 1913 permits local communities to hold polls (from 1920) on whether prohibition should apply in their districts.
  • William Crawford bakes biscuits at Leith.
  • The Neolithic site at Skara Brae on Mainland, Orkney, is plundered.
  • Coal mining production in Scotland peaks at 43.2 million tonnes, employing over 140,000 men and women, who, with their families, make up 10% of the Scottish population.[5]

Births[]

  • 17 February – Alastair Borthwick, broadcaster and mountaineer (died 2003)
  • 6 March – Ella Logan, born Georgina Allan, musical theatre performer (died 1969 in the United States)
  • 18 March – W. H. Murray, mountaineer and writer (died 1996)
  • 2 April – Ronald Center, composer, (died 1973)
  • 2 April – Benny Lynch, flyweight boxer (died 1946)
  • 11 April – Winifred Drinkwater, aviator and first woman to hold a commercial pilot's license (died 1996 in New Zealand)
  • 13 April – Gordon Donaldson, historian (died 1993)
  • 10 May – Alan Gemmell, plant biologist (died 1986)
  • 5 June – Sam Black, artist and teacher (died 1997 in Canada)
  • 5 June – Douglas Young, classicist, poet and Scottish National Party leader (died 1973 in the United States)
  • 25 July – John Cairncross, public servant, spy for the Soviet Union, academic and writer (died 1995 in England)
  • 29 July – William George Nicholson Geddes, civil engineer (died 1993)
  • 29 July – Jo Grimond, Liberal party leader (died 1993)
  • 11 August – Andy Beattie, professional football player and manager, first manager of the Scottish national football team (died 1983)
  • 2 September – Bill Shankly, international footballer and manager (died 1981)
  • 15 December – Robert McIntyre, Scottish National Party leader (died 1998)
  • Robert MacBryde, still-life and figure painter, and theatre set designer (died 1966 in Dublin)

Deaths[]

  • 18 January – George Alexander Gibson, physician and geologist (born 1854)
  • 20 February – Sir William Arrol, civil engineering contractor (born 1839)
  • 12 May – William McEwan, Liberal Party MP (1886-1900) and brewer (born 1827)
  • 6 September – James Orr, Presbyterian minister, and professor of church history and of theology (born 1844)
  • 23 September – James Campbell Noble, painter (born 1832)
  • 21 November – James Howden, mechanical engineer (born 1846)
  • Sir George Reid, artist (born 1841)

Arts and literature[]

  • 26 May – Campbeltown Picture House (cinema) opens.[6]

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1913 in the United Kingdom

References[]

  1. ^ "Montrose air station, the UK's first airfield, marks centenary". BBC News. 23 February 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  2. ^ Dow, Derek A. (August 1985). "NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives: Stoneyetts Hospital – History" (PDF). University of Glasgow. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Cadder 3 August 1913". Scottish Mining Website. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Walter Alexander". Falkirk Wheel. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011.
  5. ^ "Scottish Coal Collections". STICK. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  6. ^ MacEwen, Terry. "The Oldest Running Cinema In Scotland". Historic UK. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
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