1960 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1960 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; then William Grant
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant until May; then David Colville Anderson

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[]

  • 16 January – the last regular ship on the Cork–Glasgow crossing runs, ending a 103-year-old service.
  • 2 March – Elvis Presley stops off at Glasgow Prestwick Airport for a few hours on his journey home to the United States, after doing military service in West Germany. This is notable for being the only time he ever visited the UK.[1] His ancestor, blacksmith Andrew Presley, migrated from Lonmay to North Carolina in 1745.[2]
  • 14 March – Jock Stein is appointed manager of Dunfermline Athletic F.C.
  • 28 March – Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow: 19 firemen killed in Britain's worst peacetime fire services disaster.[3]
  • 18 May – 1960 European Cup Final at Hampden Park, Glasgow: Real Madrid C.F. defeat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3,[4] Rangers F.C. having been knocked out by Frankfurt in the semi-finals.
  • 21 June – the Royal Highland Show opens for the first time at its permanent site, the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston in the Lowlands.
  • August – murder of the Little Ross lighthouse keeper.[5]
  • 7 September – North Ford Causeway opened, connecting North Uist and Benbecula via Grimsay (5 miles (8 km)), completing an all-weather road link between North and South Uist.[6]
  • October – Queen's Bridge in Perth opened.
  • 30 October – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplantation in the UK, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
  • 5 November – Glasgow area suburban train services electrified.
  • 24 December – The rebuilt Barrowland Ballroom reopens in Glasgow.
  • Seafield Colliery at Kirkcaldy opens.[7]
  • Little Houses Improvement Scheme launched by the National Trust for Scotland to promote conservation of vernacular architecture.[8]

Births[]

  • 7 February – Steve Bronski, born Steve Forrest, synth-pop keyboardist (died 2021)
  • 11 February – Momus, born Nicholas Currie, songwriter
  • February – Lesley Riddoch, political journalist and broadcaster
  • 10 March – Anne MacKenzie, broadcast journalist
  • 23 March – Nicol Stephen, Liberal Democrat MSP, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats (2005-2008) and Deputy First Minister of Scotland (2005-2007)
  • 28 April – Ian Rankin, crime novelist
  • 5 May – David Nish, businessman
  • 19 June – Paul Coia, television presenter
  • 24 June – Elish Angiolini, née McPhilomy, Solicitor General for Scotland (2001-2006) and Lord Advocate (2006-2011)
  • 30 June – Jack McConnell, First Minister of Scotland (2001-2007)
  • 20 August – Annabelle Ewing, Nationalist politician and lawyer
  • 10 September – Margaret Ferrier, Scottish National Party politician[9]
  • 26 September – Stephen Kerr, Conservative politician
  • 6 October – Richard Jobson, rock singer-songwriter (Skids), filmmaker and television presenter
  • 12 December – Benny Higgins, banker
  • 22 December – Elvis McGonagall, born Richard Smith, slam poet
  • Katrina Porteous, poet

Deaths[]

  • 11 January – Isabel Emslie Hutton, nurse in Serbia during World War I and psychiatrist (born 1887)
  • 15 August – Rachel Annand Taylor, poet (born 1876)
  • 17 August – Calum Maclean, folklorist (born 1915)
  • 24 August – Charlotte Ainslie, educationalist and headmistress (born 1863)[10]
  • 13 December – Dora Marsden, radical feminist and modernist literary editor (born 1882)

The arts[]

  • 20–28 May – The Beatles, as the Silver Beetles (uncredited), play their first ever tour, as a backing group for Johnny Gentle on a tour of Scotland opening at Alloa Town Hall and ending at Peterhead.[11] The lineup comprises John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Edinburgh-born Stuart Sutcliffe and Tommy Moore.
  • 10 August – The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opens at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[12]
  • August – Sydney Goodsir Smith's verse play The Wallace ("a Triumph in Five Acts") has its stage première at the Edinburgh Festival in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland.
  • Autumn – release of Andy Stewart's recordings of "A Scottish Soldier" and "Donald Where's Your Troosers?"[13]

See also[]

  • 1960 in Northern Ireland

References[]

  1. ^ "1960 - Elvis Presley stops off at Prestwick". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Elvis roots 'lead to Scotland'". BBC News. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  4. ^ "The greatest matches of all time". The Daily Telegraph. London. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  5. ^ Collin, David R. (2010). "The Ross Island Lighthouse Murder". Kirkcudbright Community Website. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  6. ^ "North Ford Causeway". Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 August 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  7. ^ "100 Weeks of Scotland: Coal industry". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  8. ^ "A History of the Little Houses Improvement Scheme". National Trust for Scotland. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  9. ^ MyParliament - Biography for Margaret Ferrier
  10. ^ Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân, eds. (2018). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 8. ISBN 9781474436281.
  11. ^ "Tours & Performances". The Official Johnny Gentle Website. 2003. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  12. ^ "Scotland's New Gallery: Modern Painting and Sculpture". The Times. No. 54842. London. 5 August 1960. p. 11.
  13. ^ "A Scottish Soldier". Andy Stewart: An Illustrated Record. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
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