1953 in Scotland

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1953 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1953 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
  • Monarch – Elizabeth II
  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – James Stuart

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – James Latham Clyde
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – William Rankine Milligan

Judiciary[]

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

Events[]

  • 30 January – The cargo vessel Clan MacQuarrie runs aground near Borve, Lewis in a storm; all 66 crew are rescued by breeches buoy the following morning.[1]
  • 31 January – The car ferry MV Princess Victoria, sailing from Stranraer to Larne in Northern Ireland, sinks in the Irish Sea in a storm killing 133 people onboard.[2] Fleetwood trawler Michael Griffiths sinks seven miles south of Barra Head with the loss of 13 crew.[1]
  • 9 February – Fraserburgh life-boat John and Charles Kennedy capsizes on service: six crew killed.
  • 5 March – PS Maid of the Loch, the last full-size paddle steamer built in the UK, is launched on the River Clyde at A. & J. Inglis's Pointhouse Shipyard. On 25 May, she enters excursion service on Loch Lomond.
  • c. March – New Bridge Street Bridge across Peterhead harbour completed, the last Scherzer rolling lift bridge erected by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow.
  • 16 April – The Queen launches the Royal Yacht Britannia at John Brown & Company shipbuilders at Clydebank.[3]
  • 20 May – Celtic F.C. beat Hibernian 2-0 in the final of the Coronation Cup (football) at Hampden Park.[4]
  • 20 June – Most of the population of the island of Soay, Skye, moves to the Isle of Mull.
  • 24 June – First state visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Scotland since her accession; the Honours of Scotland are carried before the monarch for the first time since 1822[5] and presented to her at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.
  • 22 July – Great Bernera is connected to Lewis by Scotland's first prestressed concrete girder bridge.[6]
  • 8 August – The northbound Royal Scot train derails near Abington descending from Beattock Summit due to buckling of track caused by high temperature; 37 are injured.[7]
  • 27 October – Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay capsizes on service: six crew killed.
  • Scottish law case of MacCormick v Lord Advocate decides that the right of Elizabeth II to so style herself in Scotland is a matter of royal prerogative.
  • IBM establishes a manufacturing facility in Greenock.

Births[]

  • 1 January – Maureen Beattie, Irish-born actress
  • 6 January – Malcolm Young, rock guitarist (died 2017 in Australia)
  • 11 January – John Sessions, born John Gibb Marshall, actor and comedian (died 2020)
  • 20 January – John Robertson, international footballer
  • 27 February – Gavin Esler, television journalist
  • 6 May
    • Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1997-2007
    • Graeme Souness, international footballer and manager
  • 19 May – Patrick Hodge, lawyer, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
  • 21 May – Jim Devine, Labour politician[8]
  • 22 May – Andy Nisbet, mountaineer (died 2019)
  • 23 May – Ronald Frame, fiction writer
  • 7 June
    • Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, lawyer and judge
    • Dougie Donnelly, television presenter
  • 24 August – Sam Torrance, golfer
  • 31 August – Jimmy McKenna, actor
  • 8 September – John McGlynn, actor
  • 10 September – John Thurso, born John Sinclair, businessman and Liberal Democrat politician
  • 28 September – Jim Diamond, pop singer-songwriter (died 2015)
  • 21 October – Eric Faulkner, pop musician
  • 4 November – Derek Johnstone, international footballer
  • 12 November – Calum MacDonald, Celtic rock songwriter and percussionist
  • 22 December – Gregor Fisher, actor and comedian
  • Ian Read, businessman

Deaths[]

  • 19 March – Thomas Hunter, Unionist Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Perth (born 1872)
  • 1 June – Alex James, international footballer (born 1901)
  • 23 July – Sir Thomas Jaffrey, actuary (born 1861)
  • 30 September – Lewis Fry Richardson, mathematical physicist (born 1881 in England)

The arts[]

  • April – Comedy film Laxdale Hall is released.
  • Lewis Spence's Collected Poems are published in Edinburgh.

See also[]

  • 1953 in Northern Ireland

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Clan Macquarrie – historic rescue at Borve". Stornoway Gazette. Retrieved 22 July 2014.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "130 die in ferry disaster". On This Day. BBC. 31 January 1953. Archived from the original on 8 January 2008. Retrieved 10 January 2008.
  3. ^ "Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia". On This Day. BBC. 16 April 1953. Archived from the original on 21 January 2008. Retrieved 10 January 2008.
  4. ^ "The green shoots of recovery with Hibs". Scotland On Sunday. 10 September 2005.
  5. ^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Great Bernera Bridge". Archived from the original on 11 November 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  7. ^ "Accident at Abington on 8th August 1953". Railways Archive. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  8. ^ "WPR - Jim Devine (Ex-MP)". 15 July 2011. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011.
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