1907 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1907 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1906–07 • 1907–08 |
Events from the year 1907 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Dunedin
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- 5 February — Epidemic of meningitis in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast
- 24 April — Titan Clydebank crane first operates at John Brown & Company's shipyard
- 18 September — Andrew Carnegie receives the freedom of Burntisland[1]
- New Ayr Racecourse opens
- Edinburgh College of Art gains its present name and site
- The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discovered[2]
Births
- 2 January — Robert Wilson, tenor (died 1964)
- 4 January — Walter Donaldson, snooker player (died 1973 in England)
- 28 January — Robert McLellan, playwright (died 1985)
- 4 February — James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter (died 1998)
- 16 April — Martin Boddey, film and television actor (died 1975 in London)
- 22 May — Huw Lorimer, sculptor (died 1993)
- 13 August — Sir Basil Spence, architect (died 1976 in Yaxley, Suffolk)
- 7 October — Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist (died 1985 in the United States)
- 2 October — Alexander R. Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997 in Cambridgeshire, England)
- 4 November — Ferguson Rodger, physician (died 1978)
- 5 December — William Barclay, Professor of Divinity (died 1978)
- 25 December — Andrew Cruickshank, actor (died 1988 in England)
- Jameson Clark, character actor, (died 1984)
- Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent, and historical novelist (died 2001)
- Tom Hanlin, novelist (died 1953)
- Betty Henderson, actress (died 1979)
Deaths
- 21 January — John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian (born 1829)
- 4 April — Alexander Macbain, philologist (born 1855)
- 13 May — Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist (born 1827)
- 26 June — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist and engineer (born 1827, in Belfast)
- 19 July — William Gunion Rutherford, classicist (born 1853)
- 30 August — James Adam, classicist (born 1860)
- 6 October — David Masson, literary critic and historian (born 1822)
- 4 November — Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar (born 1837)
- 6 November — James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (born 1834)
- 17 December — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist (born 1824 in Ireland)
- Jane Arthur, feminist and activist (born 1827)
See also
References
- ↑ "Andrew Carnegie - Scottish connections". Scotcities.com. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
- ↑ Peach, B. N.; et al. The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Scotland. Glasgow: H.M.S.O.
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