1926 in Scotland

Events from the year 1926 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt until post abolished 26 July
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal, from 15 July – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Munro MacRobert

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

Events

• 29 January – Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire by-elections: Conservatives retain the seats.
• 26 March – Bothwell by-election: Labour retains the seat.
• 3 – 12 May: 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Some violence in Glasgow.
• 26 November – launch, under the auspices of the Scots National League, of a new monthly Nationalist newspaper entitled The Scots Independent.
• Findhorn Bridge near Tomatin completed.
• First stage of Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme constructed.
• Scotland's only sugar beet processing plant is opened at Cupar.
• Sacramento River sternwheel paddle steamers Delta King and Delta Queen are shipped from William Denny and Brothers' yard at Dumbarton to California.
• The post of Secretary for Scotland upgraded to a full Secretary of State appointment

Births

• 13 January – Craigie Aitchison, painter (died 2009)
• 17 January – Moira Shearer, ballet dancer (died 2006 in England)
• 11 February – Alexander Gibson, conductor and opera intendant (died 1995)
• 19 February – Charlie Cox, footballer (died 2008)
• 8 March – Edith MacArthur, actress (died 2018)
• 12 March – Gudrun Ure, actress (died 2024)
• 22 March – Alastair Reid, poet and scholar of South American literature (died 2014 in the United States)
• 1 April – William Macpherson, High Court judge and clan chief (died 2021)
• 3 April – Andrew Keir, actor (died 1997 in England)
• 22 April – James Stirling, architect (died 1992 in England)
• 24 May – Stanley Baxter, comic actor (died 2025 in England)
• 31 May – Duncan Campbell, trumpet player (died 2013 in England)
• 2 July – Morag Beaton, dramatic soprano (died 2010 in Australia)
• 3 August – Rona Anderson, actress (died 2013 in England)
• 15 August – D. E. R. Watt, historian (died 2004)
• 4 September – George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of liquid crystal technology (died 2013)
• 12 September – Dave Valentine, international rugby player (died 1976)
• 17 October – Archie Duncan, historian (died 2017)
• 9 November – Johnny Beattie, comedian (died 2020)

Deaths

• 2 January – John Gray McKendrick, physiologist, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow (born 1841)
• 3 February – Archibald White Maconochie, businessman and MP (born 1855)
• 4 April – John McTavish footballer (born 1885)
• 31 July – John McPherson, international footballer (born 1868)
• 4 September – Alexander Morison McAldowie, physician, folklorist and ornithologist (born 1852)

The arts

• 22 November – Hugh MacDiarmid's Scots language poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is published.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1926 in Northern Ireland

References