1981 in Scotland

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1981
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1981 in: The UKWalesElsewhere
Scottish football: 1980–811981–82
1981 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1981 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great SealGeorge Younger

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateLord Mackay of Clashfern
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandNicholas Fairbairn

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice GeneralLord Emslie
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Wheatley
  • Chairman of the Scottish Land CourtLord Elliott

Events[]

  • 1 February – Decriminalisation of homosexual activity between men over twenty-one years of age through the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980, Section 80, which enters into force on this day.
  • 5 March – the ZX81, a pioneering British home computer manufactured by Timex in Dundee, is launched by Sinclair Research, going on to sell over 1.5 million units worldwide.
  • May
    • Peugeot closes the Talbot car plant at Linwood, Renfrewshire, which was opened by the Rootes Group eighteen years earlier as Scotland's only car factory.
    • Buchan Oil Field production begins in the North Sea.
  • 23 MayScotland beat England 1-0 at Wembley.
  • 11 December – Closure of Bedlay Colliery, Glenboig.
  • 21 December – George Wood (Aberdeen) Ltd cease trawler operations.
  • Undated
    • Last manufacture of coal gas in the UK, at Millport, Isle of Cumbrae.[1]
    • Invergordon aluminium smelter closes.

Births[]

  • 15 JanuarySean Lamont, rugby player
  • 16 FebruaryAlison Rowatt, field hockey midfielder
  • 19 FebruaryMark Boyle, snooker player
  • 28 FebruaryMark Brown, footballer
  • 25 MarchEmily Smith, folk singer
  • 11 JuneAlistair McGregor, field hockey goalkeeper
  • 14 JuneAlastair Kellock, rugby union player
  • 11 AugustSandi Thom, pop singer-songwriter
  • 28 AugustKezia Dugdale, leader of the Scottish Labour Party
  • 7 SeptemberNatalie McGarry, MP convicted of embezzlement[2]
  • 16 SeptemberDavid Mitchell, field hockey defender
  • Catriona Shearer, television news presenter

Deaths[]

  • 6 JanuaryA. J. Cronin, novelist (born 1896)
  • 23 FebruaryNan Shepherd, novelist and poet (born 1893)
  • June – Wendy Wood, nationalist campaigner (born 1892 in England)
  • 22 AugustMairi Chisholm, nurse and ambulance driver in World War I, one of "The Madonnas of Pervyse" (born 1896)
  • 8 SeptemberBill Shankly, football manager (born 1913)
  • 19 OctoberJohnny Doyle, footballer (born 1951)

The arts[]

  • 30 March – release of historical drama film Chariots of Fire that tells the story of devout Christian Eric Liddell competing in the 1924 Olympics.
  • 23 April – release of romantic comedy film Gregory's Girl.
  • Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark: A Life in Four Books is published in Edinburgh.
  • Perrier Comedy Awards first presented to the best shows on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  • The Bluebells formed.
  • First Fèis Bharraigh.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Great Cumbrae". Secret Scotland. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
  2. ^ Publishing, Bloomsbury (19 November 2015). Whitaker's Shorts 2016: Governance. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472921987 – via Google Books.
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