1965 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1965 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 – Willie Ross

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Gordon Stott
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Wilson

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson until 12 April; then Lord Birsay[1]

Events[]

  • March – Cables Wynd House ("Banana Flats") completed in Leith.[2]
  • 24 March – Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles by-election: David Steel (Liberal) gains the seat from the Conservatives.
  • 12 April – Harald Leslie becomes Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, with the judicial title Lord Birsay. He replaces Lord Gibson.[1]
  • 15 June – Law Commissions Act 1965, establishing the Scottish Law Commission, receives the Royal assent.
  • August – Union Canal officially closed to navigation.[3]
  • 5 August – the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 receives royal assent.
  • 11 August – first edition of The Celtic View, the official weekly magazine of Celtic F.C. in Glasgow, is published.
  • 20 August – Cassius Clay fights an exhibition bout at the Ice Rink, Paisley.[4]
  • 6 September – Edinburgh Princes Street railway station is officially closed.[5]
  • 15 October – the Cruachan Dam pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme at Ben Cruachan near Oban opens.
  • 8 November – the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act suspends capital punishment for murder in England, Scotland and Wales, for five years in the first instance, replacing it with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
  • November – Harthill Bypass opened, first section of the M8 motorway and the first substantive section of motorway in Scotland.
  • The Unionist Party in Scotland is renamed the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and constitutionally comes under the control of the London-based Conservative Party.
  • Construction of the town of Dalgety Bay begins.
  • Highlands and Islands Development Board formed.
  • Corpach pulp and paper mills open.[6]

Births[]

  • 18 January – Paul Flexney, footballer
  • 20 January – Colin Calderwood, international footballer and coach
  • 22 January – Brian McCardie, actor
  • 27 January – Alan Cumming, actor
  • 6 February – Simone Lahbib, actress
  • 11 February – Keith Cochrane, businessman
  • 14 February – Ian Spittal, footballer
  • 16 February – Ally Maxwell, footballer and coach
  • 22 February – John Leslie (born John Leslie Stott), television presenter
  • 5 March – Carolyn Leckie, Scottish Socialist Party MSP (2003–2007)
  • 8 March – Paul Martin, footballer and manager
  • 20 March – William Dalrymple, historian
  • 22 March – Rob Wainwright, international rugby union footballer
  • 23 March – Marti Pellow (born Mark McLachlan), singer
  • 26 March – Pat McFadden, Labour MP (Wolverhampton 2005– )
  • 6 April – Andy Walker, footballer and TV pundit
  • 11 April – Lynn Ferguson, writer, actress, comedian and presenter
  • 25 April – Ally Dick, footballer
  • 16 May – Stuart Millar, football player and manager
  • 17 May – Keith Wright, international footballer
  • 24 May – Brian Irvine, international footballer
  • 28 May – Vic Kasule, footballer
  • 5 June – Allan Guthrie, literary agent, author and editor of crime fiction
  • 19 June – A. B. Jackson, poet
  • 22 June – Jimmy Sandison, footballer
  • 3 July – Tommy Flanagan, actor
  • 9 July – David O'Hara, actor
  • 12 July – Eric Cullen, actor (died 1996)
  • 15 July – Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democrat politician and Secretary of State for Scotland
  • 19 July – Evelyn Glennie, virtuosa percussionist
  • 24 July – Julie Graham, actress
  • 26 July – Hamish Clark, actor
  • 11 August – Robert Fleck, international footballer and manager
  • 30 August – Peter Grant, international footballer and manager
  • 5 September – Murdo Fraser, Conservative MSP (2001– )
  • 11 September:
    • Robert Docherty, footballer
    • Graeme Obree, racing cyclist
  • 14 September – Paul McFadden, footballer
  • 27 September – Rhona Cameron, comedian
  • 14 October – Sandy Stewart, footballer and manager
  • 20 October – Norman Blake, singer, instrumentalist and songwriter
  • 22 October – A. L. Kennedy, fiction writer
  • 29 October – Paul Stewart, racing driver
  • 12 November – Eddie Mair, radio and television presenter
  • 19 November – Douglas Henshall, actor
  • 24 November – Shirley Henderson, actress
  • 25 November – Dougray Scott, actor
  • 28 November – Caroline Paterson, actress
  • 11 December – Alison Watt, painter
  • 13 December – Hugh Burns, footballer
  • 20 December – Robert Cavanah, actor, writer, director and producer
  • 21 December – Stuart Mitchell, pianist and composer
  • 31 December – Mike Conroy, footballer
  • Unknown
    • Anne Bevan, visual artist, sculptor, and lecturer
    • Christine Borland, sculptor
    • Patricia Littlechild, sport shooter and neurosurgeon[7]

Deaths[]

  • 7 January – Anne Redpath, domestic painter (born 1895)
  • 1 February – Robert Spence, Labour MP
  • 14 February – David Ferguson Hunter, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1891)
  • 30 April – James William Slessor Marr, marine biologist and polar explorer (born 1902)
  • 17 March – Walter Potter Ritchie, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1892)
  • 31 March – Gerard Crole, international rugby union and cricket player (born 1894)
  • 9 April – Robert Gibson, Lord Gibson, lawyer and Labour MP
  • 9 May – Hugh O'Donnell, footballer (born 1913)
  • 16 July – William Reid, Scottish Labour Party Member of Parliament from 1950 to 1964 (born 1889)
  • 2 August – John Carmont, High Court Judge (born 1890)
  • 12 August – Willie Gallacher, trade unionist, activist and communist MP (born 1881)
  • 5 September – Tom Johnston, Labour MP, government minister and chairman of North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (born 1881)
  • 8 October – James Nelson, international footballer (born 1901)
  • 20 October – William Thomas Shaw, Unionist Party MP (born 1879)

The arts[]

  • George Mackay Brown's poetry The Year of the Whale is published.
  • The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts opens the Kelly Gallery.
  • 31 December – "Pirate" radio station Radio Scotland begins broadcasting from LV Dunbar anchored outside U.K. territorial waters off Dunbar.

See also[]

  • 1965 in Northern Ireland

References[]

  1. ^ a b "No. 18339". The Edinburgh Gazette. 6 April 1965. p. 243.
  2. ^ "Cables Wynd House". Historic Environment Scotland. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  3. ^ Jean, Jean (1968). The Canals of Scotland. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4240-1.
  4. ^ "King Ali of Paisley", The Scotsman, retrieved 7 May 2014
  5. ^ Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1.
  6. ^ "Kilmallie timeline". Kilmallie Community Council. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  7. ^ "SCOTTISH SMALLBORE RIFLE ASSOCIA". www.ssra.co.uk. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
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