1937 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1937 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 Normand
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Aitchison
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord MacGregor Mitchell
Events
- 17 April — A crowd of 149,547 watch the Scotland national football team defeat England 3-1 at Hampden Park, Glasgow.[1]
- 5 July — The rival operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railway routes between London and Scotland introduce steamlined express passenger trains hauled by steam locomotives: the London and North Eastern Railway's The Coronation between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley[2] and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway's Coronation Scot between Euston and Glasgow Central.[3]
- 16 October — Jimmy McGrory plays his last match with Celtic F.C., achieving a United Kingdom record of 550 goals scored during his senior career.[4]
- 4 December — The first issue of children's comic The Dandy, including the character Desperate Dan, is published by Dundee-based publisher D. C. Thomson & Co.
- 10 December — Castlecary rail crash: An express on the Edinburgh to Glasgow line collides into the rear of a local train standing at Castlecary in the snow, due primarily to a signalman's error; 35 are killed.[5]
- Hydroelectricity scheme of Galloway Water Power Company commences operation.[6]
- Nigel Nicolson purchases the uninhabited Shiant Isles from fellow writer Compton Mackenzie.
- The National Trust for Scotland acquires its first part of the site of the Battle of Culloden.
- Among the definitive coins of the United Kingdom issued for the new reign are shillings carrying a Scottish crest.
- A. G. Macdonell publishes My Scotland.
Births
- 10 February — Anne Anderson, physiologist (died 1983)
- 16 February — Jimmy Frizzell, footballer and football manager (died 2016)
- 18 April — Teddy Taylor, Conservative politician
- 28 April — Jean Redpath, folk singer (died 2014 in the United States)
- 7 July — Sheila Stewart, folk singer (died 2014)
- 21 August — Donald Dewar, Labour politician and First Minister of Scotland (died 2000)
- 3 September — Willie Bell, footballer
- 4 October — Jim Sillars, politician
- James Goodfellow, inventor
- Kate Macintosh, architect
Deaths
- 6 January — Robert Urie, steam locomotive engineer (born 1854)
- 19 June — J. M. Barrie, author best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan (born 1860; died in London)
- 28 July — Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle, politician (born 1862)
- 21 September — Chrystal Macmillan, mathematician, suffragist, politician, barrister and pacifist (born 1872)
- 9 November — Ramsay MacDonald, Labour politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1866; died at sea)
- 6 December — Francis Cadell, Colourist painter (born 1883)
The Arts
- August — The film The Edge of the World is released. The first major solo project by English director Michael Powell, it dramatises the depopulation of the Scottish islands (based on the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930) and was largely filmed on Foula in Shetland.
- A. J. Cronin's medical novel The Citadel is published.
- Robert McLellan's play Jamie the Saxt is first performed, in Glasgow, starring Duncan Macrae.
See also
References
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ London & North Eastern Railway (1937). The Coronation: the first streamline train, King's Cross for Scotland. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
- ↑ "The streamlined symbol of 1930s luxury". York: National Railway Museum. 2009-05-01. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
- ↑ McManus, John (28 October 2006), "Jimmy McGrory", The Scotsman, Lives and Times, retrieved 2013-05-13
- ↑ "Accident at Castlecary on 10th December 1937". Railways Archive. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
- ↑ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 93.
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