1923 in Scotland

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Scottish football: 1922–23 • 1923–24

Events from the year 1923 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Viscount Novar

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – William Watson
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – David Fleming; then Frederick Thomson

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

Events[]

  • 1 January – Grouping of virtually all British railway companies. The Caledonian (from 1 July), Highland and Glasgow and South Western Railways are merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway; and the North British and Great North of Scotland Railways into the London and North Eastern Railway.
  • 6 March – First BBC radio broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).[1]
  • 19 March – First BBC radio outside broadcast in Scotland, from the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.[1]
  • 23 March – Cutty Sark whisky blended.
  • 24 June – Edinburgh Corporation Tramways completes conversion from cable to electric traction.[2]
  • 12 August–8 November – Eallabus on Islay records 89 successive rain-days, a British record.[3]
  • 25 September – 40 coal miners are killed when the pit at Redding, Falkirk floods.[4]
  • 10 October
    • First BBC radio broadcast from Aberdeen (station 2BD).[1]
    • Susan Newell (born 1893) undergoes judicial hanging at Duke Street Prison, Glasgow, the last woman to suffer capital punishment in Scotland (and the first for 70 years in Glasgow).
  • 2 December – First BBC radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious address from Aberdeen.[1]
  • 6 December – United Kingdom general election. Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, is elected as Unionist Party MP for Kinross and Western Perthshire.
  • The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland calls for curbs on the immigration of Irish Catholics.[5]
  • Margaret Kidd becomes the first female member of the Scottish bar.
  • First year of the Bullough Cup, a shinty competition

Births[]

  • 15 January
    • John Christopher Bartholomew, cartographer and geographer (died 2008)
    • Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humorist (died 2006)[6]
  • 19 March – Bobby Brown, international football goalkeeper and manager (died 2020)
  • 23 March – Roddy McMillan, actor and playwright (died 1979)
  • 15 May – James Gilbert, television producer (died 2016)
  • 18 May – Willie McRae, Scottish National Party politician and lawyer (died 1985)
  • May – Pat Smythe, jazz pianist (died 1983 in London)
  • 25 August – Dorothy Dunnett, historical novelist (died 2001)
  • 9 September – Mitchell Downie, footballer (died 2001)
  • 18 October – James Gowan, architect known for his post-modernist designs (died 2015 in London)
  • 21 October – David Brand, Lord Brand, advocate, sheriff and Senator of the College of Justice (died 1996)
  • 25 October – Bobby Thomson, professional baseball player (died 2010 in Savannah, Georgia)
  • 26 October – Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, politician (died 2005)
  • 14 December – Janet Brown, actress, comedienne and impressionist, famous for impersonations of Margaret Thatcher (died 2011 in Hove)
  • 19 December – Gordon Jackson, screen actor (died 1990)

Deaths[]

  • 27 March – James Dewar, chemist and physicist (born 1842)
  • 4 May – William Robertson Nicoll, Free Church minister, journalist, editor and man of letters (born 1851)
  • 4 June – Hume Nisbet, writer and artist (born 1849)
  • 25 June – John Annan Bryce, businessman and Liberal politician (born 1841)
  • 29 June – Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet, physician (born 1849)
  • 17 July – William Paton Ker, scholar and essayist (born 1855)
  • 26 September – Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, Conservative politician (born 1834)
  • 28 September – William York Macgregor, landscape painter (born 1855)
  • 30 November – John Maclean, Marxist (born 1879)
  • 26 December – James Stout Angus, Shetland writer (born 1830)
  • , industrialist (born 1856)

The arts[]

  • The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society is founded by Jean Milligan and Ysobel Stewart.[7]
  • John Buchan's novel Midwinter is published.

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1923 in Northern Ireland

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Walker, David Pat (2011). The BBC in Scotland: the first 50 years. Edinburgh: Luath. ISBN 1-908373-00-8.
  2. ^ Booth, Gavin (1988). Edinburgh's Trams & Buses. Ratho: Bus Enthusiast Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 0-946265-09-7.
  3. ^ Meteorological Office (1924). British Rainfall 1923 (PDF). London: HMSO. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  4. ^ Scott, Ian (2006). "Redding Pit Disaster". Falkirk Local History Society. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  5. ^ The church publishes a booklet entitled The Menace of the Irish Race to Our Scottish Nationality. Goring, Rosemary, ed. (2014). Scotland: the autobiography (New ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 308–11. ISBN 978-0-241-96916-8.
  6. ^ Espiner, Mark (7 March 2006). "Obituary: Ivor Cutler". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  7. ^ Knight, Peter, ed. (1996). Scottish Country Dancing. Collins. ISBN 0-00-472500-X.
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