1917 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1917 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
  • Monarch – George V
  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Robert Munro

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – James Avon Clyde
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Brash Morison

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Strathclyde
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Dickson
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Kennedy

Events[]

  • 3 January – Ratho rail crash in which North British Railway H class locomotive 874 Dunedin in charge of the Edinburgh to Glasgow express train is in collision with a light engine at Queensferry Junction, leaving 12 people dead and 46 seriously injured. The cause is found to be inadequate signalling procedures.[1]
  • 5 January – Stornoway Gazette first published.
  • 29 January – Royal Navy steam-powered submarine HMS K13 sinks on trial in the Gare Loch with the loss of 32 men; 48 are rescued.[2]
  • 7 February – the Clyde-built Atlantic liner SS California (1907), homeward bound for Glasgow from New York, is torpedoed and sunk by SM U-85 approaching Ireland. 41 are killed but around 162 survivors return to Glasgow.[2]
  • 9 April–16 May – Battle of Arras on the Western Front (World War I) – 44 Scottish battalions advance alongside seven Canadian Scottish battalions.
  • 1 May – Imperial German Navy Zeppelins L 43 and L 45 conduct reconnaissance patrols over the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, above the Firth of Forth and Aberdeen, respectively.[3]
  • 26 June – First branch of the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes founded in Longniddry.[4]
  • 9 July – HMS Vanguard is blown apart by an internal explosion at her moorings in Scapa Flow, Orkney, killing an estimated 843 crew with no survivors.[5]
The South Corston fragment of the Strathmore meteorite
  • 2 August – Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning becomes the first pilot to land his aircraft on a ship[6] when he lands his Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow but is killed five days later during another landing on the ship.
  • 23 August – start of lockout at Pullars dyeing works in Perth.[7]
  • October – first North British Railway C Class steam locomotives are allocated for loan to the Royal Engineers' Railway Operating Division on the Western Front.
  • 3 December – Strathmore meteorite falls in Perthshire.[8]
  • The Great Channel in the Inner Moray Firth is dredged.

Births[]

  • 27 February – George Mitchell, musician, best known for devising The Black and White Minstrel Show (died 2002 in Shropshire)
  • 15 May – Anna Macleod, biochemist, world's first female professor of brewing and biochemistry (died 2004)
  • 18 May – James Donald, actor (died 1993 in West Tytherley, Hampshire)
  • 10 June – Ruari McLean, typographic designer (died 2006)
  • 14 August – Donald MacLeod, Seaforth Highlanders pipe major, composer and bagpipe instructor (died 1982)
  • 26 September – Phillip Clancey, leading authority on the ornithology of South Africa (died 2001 in South Africa)
  • 16 October – Murray MacLehose, Governor of Hong Kong (died 2000)
  • 14 December – Alberto Morrocco, artist and teacher (died 1998)
  • 31 December – John Fox Watson, footballer (Fulham, Real Madrid, Crystal Palace) (died 1976 in Southend-on-Sea)

Deaths[]

  • 17 March – Hippolyte Blanc, architect, best known for his church buildings in the Gothic revival style (born 1844)
  • 13 May – Benjamin Blyth II, civil engineer (born 1849)
  • 22 October – William Hole, English artist, illustrator, etcher and engraver, known for his industrial, historical and biblical scenes (born 1846 in Salisbury)
  • 1 December – George Henry Tatham Paton, army captain, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, mortally wounded in action in France (born 1895)
  • 27 December – George Diamandy, Romanian revolutionary socialist politician, social scientist, dramatist, journalist, diplomat, archaeologist and landowner, died and buried at sea off Shetland (born 1867 in Romania)

The arts[]

  • 17 August – one of English literature's most important and famous meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.
  • Joseph Lee (who is made a prisoner of war later this year) publishes the poetry collection Work-a-Day Warriors.
  • Ewart Alan Mackintosh (who is killed on 23 November in the Battle of Cambrai) publishes A Highland Regiment and Other Poems.
  • Doric dialect poet and soldier Charles Murray publishes The Sough o' War.

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1917 in the United Kingdom

References[]

  1. ^ MacLeod, Duncan (14 August 2006). "UK train accidents in which passengers were killed 1825-1924". PureCollector. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  3. ^ Whitehouse, Arch (1966). The Zeppelin Fighters. New York: Ace Books. pp. 183–184.
  4. ^ Cohen, Susan (2011). THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE. Oxford. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-74781-046-9.
  5. ^ Flett, Brian (11 July 2002). "Research puts Vanguard loss at 843". The Orcadian. Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
  6. ^ HMS Furious 1917. Archived 28 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Pullars of Perth". Perthshire Diary. 19 September 1917. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  8. ^ "The Strathmore Meteorite". Perth & Kinross Council. 5 August 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
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