1935 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1935 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
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- Monarch — George V
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Sir Godfrey Collins
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — Wilfrid Normand until April; then Douglas Jamieson until December; then Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Solicitor General for Scotland — Douglas Jamieson until April; vacant until May; then Thomas Mackay Cooper until December; then Albert Russell
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Clyde until 1 April; then Lord Normand
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Aitchison
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord MacGregor Mitchell
Events
- 31 March & 5 December — Glasgow Subway electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectively[1]
- 16 May — Thomas Mackay Cooper becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,[2] replacing Douglas Jamieson
- 22 June — Kerr's Miniature Railway at Arbroath opens for business[3]
- 9 September — Glaswegian flyweight Benny Lynch becomes the first Scottish boxing world champion in a bout in Manchester[4]
- mid–late September – Lancaster general practitioner Buck Ruxton disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near Moffat
- 23 October — A footbridge across the River Forth at Cambuskenneth replaces a ferry[5]
- 2 November — Scottish-born thriller-writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada
- 14 November — UK General Election: The Communist Party of Great Britain candidate, Willie Gallacher, wins the constituency of West Fife[6]
- 2 December — Albert Russell becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,[7] replacing Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Edwin Muir publishes Scottish Journey
Births
- 5 February — Alex Harvey, rock musician (died 1982)
- 21 February — Mark McManus, film and television actor (died 1994)
- 4 March — Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
- 12 April — Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
- 8 May — Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, politician
- 7 June — William Stewart, Scottish biologist and academic
- 15 July — Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament 1974–79 (died 2006)
- 10 August — John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
- 22 November — Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014)
- 15 October — Richard McTaggart, boxer
Deaths
- 12 March — Malcolm Smith, Liberal Party politician and MP (born 1856)
- 16 March — John James Rickard Macleod, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1876)
- 5 June — James Manson, mechanical engineer (born 1845)
- 27 September — William W. Naismith, mountaineer (born 1856)
- 22 November — Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (born 1880)
See also
References
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