1943 in Scotland

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1943 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1942–43 • 1943–44

Events from the year 1943 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – James Reid
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

Judiciary[]

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

Events[]

  • 11 February – At the Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, the radical socialist Common Wealth Party candidate Tom Wintringham comes close to winning the seat (which is held for the Unionist Party by Sir David King Murray).
  • 24 February – Royal Navy submarine HMS Vandal is lost with all 37 crew on sea trials in the Sound of Bute; she would not be located until 1994.[1][2]
  • 27 March – Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Dasher (D37) is destroyed by an accidental explosion in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379 of the crew of 528.
  • 21 April ��� "Big Blitz" bombing of Aberdeen.[3]
  • 30 May – Royal Navy submarine HMS Untamed (P58) is lost with all hands on a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde.
  • 19 June – Jackie Paterson wins the world flyweight boxing title by a knockout in the first minute at Hampden Park in Glasgow.[4]
  • 5 August – North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board established by Act of Parliament[5] (with headquarters in Edinburgh).
  • 11 November – Total evacuation of an area near Portmahomack in Easter Ross begins, to make way for rehearsal of the Normandy Landings.[6]
  • 2 December – Broughty Ferry pigeon Winkie, serving with the Royal Air Force, is among the first recipients of the Dickin Medal, instituted to honour the work of animals in war.[7]
  • The last crofting family leaves the island of South Rona.
  • Ferranti open a plant at Crewe Toll in Edinburgh, originally to manufacture gyro gunsights for aircraft.

Births[]

  • 23 January – Ernie Hannigan, footballer (died 2015 in Australia)
  • 18 February – Graeme Garden, author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, one of The Goodies
  • 1 March - Witold Rybczynski, Canadian American architect, born in Edinburgh
  • 16 April – Morris Stevenson, footballer (died 2014)
  • 19 April – Margo MacDonald, politician (died 2014)[8]
  • 1 May – Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group (died 1998)[9]
  • 10 May – Jack Bruce, rock musician (died 2014)
  • 22 June – J. Michael Kosterlitz, Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
  • 16 July - Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins, comedy writer
  • 18 July – Robin MacDonald, pop guitarist (died 2015)
  • 20 August – Sylvester McCoy, born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, actor
  • 16 October – Tommy Gemmell, footballer (died 2017)
  • 24 November – Robin Williamson, acoustic musician
  • Alan Bold, poet and biographer (died 1998)
  • G. C. Peden, historian
  • D. R. Thorpe, biographer
  • Kay Ullrich, politician (died 2021)

Deaths[]

  • 17 June – Annie S. Swan, novelist (born 1859)
  • 8 September - Anderson Gray McKendrick, military physician and epidemiologist, (born 1876)
  • 15 October – William Soutar, poet (born 1898)
  • 23 December – George Henry, painter (born 1858)
  • Ann Scott-Moncrieff, author (born 1914)

The arts[]

  • November – Sorley MacLean's first collection of Gaelic poems, Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile, is published.
  • Glasgow Citizens Theatre founded.
  • Poetry Scotland magazine founded in Glasgow by Maurice Lindsay.

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1943 in Northern Ireland

References[]

  1. ^ MacKinnon, Angus (2010). "The Loss of HM Submarine Vandal (P64) off the Isle of Arran in 1943". ClydeMaritime. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  2. ^ "HMS/M Vandal: Inchmarnock Water, Sound Of Bute, Firth Of Clyde". Canmore. Edinburgh: Historic Environment Scotland. 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  3. ^ "The Aberdeen Mittwoch Blitz - Wednesday 21st April 1943". The Doric Columns. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Jackie Paterson: World Champion 1943". A Sporting Nation. BBC. November 2005. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Power From the Glens" (PDF). Perth: Scottish and Southern Energy. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
  6. ^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Dickin medal pigeons". PDSA. Archived from the original on 13 February 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  8. ^ "Margo MacDonald obituary". The Guardian. London. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Obituary: Ian Dunn". The Independent. London.
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