1959 in Scotland

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1959 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1958–59 • 1959–60
1959 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1959 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 – 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[]

  • 1 January – 5 members of the Universal Hiking Club of Glasgow die in a storm in the Grampians.[1]
  • 9 January – Clyde-built fisheries protection vessel Freya founders off Caithness with the loss of 3 of her crew of 20.[2]
  • 28 January – a Glasgow Corporation Tramways tramcar collides with a lorry and catches fire in Shettleston Road with 3 killed.[3]
  • 2 May – the Chapelcross nuclear power station opens.[4]
  • 4 July – British Railways close their Kilmarnock Works.
  • 18 September – Auchengeich mining disaster: 47 miners die as the result of an underground fire at Auchengeich Colliery, Lanarkshire.[5]
  • 8 October – United Kingdom general election results in a record third successive Conservative victory.[6] Harold Macmillan increases the Conservative majority to 100 seats across the UK[7] but the Unionist Party in Scotland loses 4 seats.
  • 14 November – the nuclear Dounreay fast reactor achieves criticality.[8]
  • 17 November – Prestwick and Renfrew Airports become the first in the U.K. with duty-free shops.[9]
  • 6 December – Aberdeen trawler George Robb runs aground at Duncansby Head in a severe gale with the loss of all 12 crew.[10]
  • 7 December – Leith coaster Servus runs aground below Dunbeath Castle; her crew are rescued by life-boat.[11]
  • 8 December – Broughty Ferry life-boat Mona capsizes on service to North Carr Lightship with the loss of all 8 of the life-boat crew.
  • William Theodore Heard is elevated to Cardinal, the first Scot to hold such an office since the Reformation.
  • St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society opens Scotland's first supermarket in Edinburgh.[12]
  • North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board's becomes fully operational; and peat-fired generating station at Altnabreac opened.
  • North Highland College established.
  • The fossil ichthyosaur Dearcmhara is first discovered by Brian Shawcross on the Trotternish peninsula of Skye.

Births[]

  • 31 January – Heather Anderson, SNP politician
  • 12 April – Jackson Carlaw, Conservative politician. leader of the Scottish Conservatives
  • 16 April – Alison Ramsay, field hockey player
  • 27 April – Sheena Easton, singer
  • 27 May – Gerard Kelly, television and pantomime actor (died 2010 in London)
  • 9 July – Jim Kerr, rock singer-songwriter
  • 16 July – James MacMillan, composer
  • 27 July – Siobhan Redmond, actress
  • 28 July – Lorraine Fullbrook, Conservative politician
  • 31 July – Andrew Marr, print and television journalist
  • 29 August – Eddi Reader, folk singer-songwriter
  • 7 September – Rona Munro, dramatist and screenwriter
  • 8 September – Judy Murray, tennis player and coach[13]
  • 10 October – Mark Johnston, racehorse trainer
  • 25 November – Charles Kennedy, leader of the Liberal Democrats (died 2015)[14]
  • 30 November – Lorraine Kelly, television presenter
  • date unknown
    • Meg Bateman, Gaelic writer and poet[15]
    • Robert Crawford, poet and literary scholar
    • Andy Gray, actor (died 2021)
    • Alexander Stoddart, sculptor

Deaths[]

  • 2 July – William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir, industrialist and politician (born 1877)
  • 1 October – Evelyn Vida Baxter, ornithologist (born 1879)[16]
  • 15 November – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)

The arts[]

  • Jane Duncan's first novel My Friends the Miss Boyds is published by Macmillan.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Shorrock, Paul (4 November 2019). "Callater Stables Bothy and the Jock's Road Tragedy of 1959". One Man's Mountains. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Protection Cruiser Heeled Over". The Times (54457). London. 11 May 1959. p. 14.
  3. ^ Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (1959). Tramway accidents: Report on the collision and subsequent fire which occurred on 28th January 1959 to a Glasgow Corporation tramcar in Shettleston Road, Glagow. H.M.S.O.
  4. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  5. ^ "Community pays tribute to Auchengeich mining disaster victims". Kirkintilloch Herald. 11 September 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2013.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "1959: 'Supermac' leads Tories to victory". BBC News. 9 October 1959. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2008.
  7. ^ "1959 General election results summary". UK Political Info. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  8. ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
  9. ^ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  10. ^ "MFV George Robb (A406)". WreckSite. 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  11. ^ "MV Servus". WreckSite. 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  12. ^ "Facelift for the first Scots supermarket". The Grocer. 6 June 2009. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  13. ^ "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Judy Murray". www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  14. ^ "Charles Kennedy obituary". the Guardian. 2 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  15. ^ "Meg Bateman | Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher". Birlinn Ltd. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  16. ^ Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (2007). Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen. Edinburgh University Press. p. 32. ISBN 9780748626601.
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