1958 in Scotland

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1958 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1957–58 • 1958–59
1958 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1958 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 – John Maclay

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant

Judiciary[]

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

Events[]

  • 13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Conservatives
  • May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality
  • 3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways last operate, leaving Glasgow as the only system in Scotland
  • 20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured[1]
  • 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow[2]
  • 4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts
  • 11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders
  • 18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued
  • 1 September – first of the 'Cod Wars' between the U.K. and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out
  • 15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line[3]
  • 19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal
  • October – Thurso High School opened
  • 21 November – construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins[4]
  • 5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the U.K. telephone network when The Queen dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost[5]
  • 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time[6]
  • Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison

Births[]

  • 30 January – Derek White, rugby player[7]
  • 9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer
  • 22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor
  • 14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor
  • 25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
  • 26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver (died 2021)
  • 3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter
  • 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer
  • 2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress
  • 17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker
  • 30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster
  • 20 September – Maureen Baker, physician
  • 27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer
  • Christina McAnea, trade union leader
  • Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist
  • James Robertson, writer

Deaths[]

  • 8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888)
  • 29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861)
  • 2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875)
  • 3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872)
  • 19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)

The arts[]

  • 7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968

See also[]

  • 1958 in Northern Ireland

References[]

  1. ^ Vaughan, Adrian (1989). Obstruction Danger: significant British railway accidents, 1890-1986. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. 159–64.
  2. ^ "Ian Donald's paper in The Lancet in 1958". Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2008.
  3. ^ Mackay, Stuart. "AC Cars Railbus Scottish Arrival". www.railcar.co.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Events in Telecommunications History – 1958". BT Archives. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  6. ^ Houston, Rab; Houston, Robert Allan (2008). Scotland: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. Vol. 197. Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-19-923079-2. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  7. ^ "Derek Bolton White". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
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