1934 in Scotland

← 1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1934 in Scotland → 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
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See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1934 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1933–34 • 1934–35

Events from the year 1934 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• Monarch — George V
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Sir Godfrey Collins

Law officers

• Lord Advocate — Wilfrid Normand
• Solicitor General for Scotland — Douglas Jamieson

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Aitchison
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord St Vigeans, then Lord MacGregor Mitchell

Events

• 14 & 16 January - Christina MacLennan gives birth to twins, the first on the island of Scarp in the county of Inverness-shire and the second in Stornoway in the county of Ross and Cromarty.
• 3 April — Work on construction of "Hull 534", the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank resumes after more than 2 years' suspension due to the Great Depression following a financial agreement between the Cunard Line and the British government.
• 7 April — The Scottish National Party is formed by merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party. On 20 April it holds its first public meeting, in Edinburgh.
• 21 April — The "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, much later admitted to be a hoax, is published in the Daily Mail (London).
• 29 May — First regular domestic airmail service, inaugurated by Highland Airways between Inverness and Kirkwall.
• 28 & 31 July - Gerhard Zucker launches rocket mail experimentally between the Outer Hebridean islands of Scarp and Harris; in both attempts the powder rockets explode.
• 26 September — Launching of the RMS Queen Mary at Clydebank.
• 25 December — Dedication of the permanent St Columba's Cathedral at Oban, Mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.
• Sandray becomes uninhabited.
• Gordonstoun school established in Moray.
• Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes the historical biography Robert Bruce, King of Scots.

Births

• 12 January — I. Howard Marshall, theologian (died 2015)
• 24 April — John Cameron, Lord Coulsfield, judge (died 2016)
• 5 May — Jim Reid, folk musician (died 2009)
• 10 May — Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet, businessman
• 14 November — Dave Mackay, footballer and manager (died 2015 in England)
• 28 December — Alasdair Gray, novelist, artist, playwright, academic, teacher and poet

Deaths

• 18 April — Catherine Cranston, tearoom proprietor (born 1849)
• 18 December — Peter Hodge, referee and football manager (born 1871)

The Arts

• Helen Cruickshank's poems Up the Noran Water published.
• Hugh MacDiarmid's Stony Limits and Other Poems published.
• Nan Shepherd's poems In the Cairngorms published.

See also

• 1934 in the United Kingdom