1933 in Scotland

Events from the year 1933 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Craigie Mason Aitchison until October; then Wilfrid Normand
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Wilfrid Normand until October; then Douglas Jamieson

Judiciary

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

Events

• 2 February – East Fife by-election: The seat is retained by the National Liberal Party; Eric Linklater stands for the National Party of Scotland.
• 3 April – Two British aircraft piloted by Squadron Leader the Marquess of Clydesdale and Flight Lieutenant David MacIntyre make the first flight over Mount Everest.
• 30 April – First domestic flight service in Scotland, Renfrew to Campbeltown, operated by Midland & Scottish Air Ferries Ltd. Winifred Drinkwater, "the world's first female commercial pilot", is hired to fly the route.
• 2 May – First modern "sighting" of the Loch Ness Monster.
• 28 July – Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1933 receives the Royal Assent.
• 9 August – Hoard of silver denarii and a contemporaneous fragment of tartan cloth found at Falkirk.
• 2 November – Kilmarnock by-election: The seat is retained by the National Labour Organisation; Sir Alexander MacEwen stands for the Scottish Party with the endorsement of the National Party of Scotland.
• Scottish Democratic Fascist Party founded by William Weir Gilmour and Major Hume Sleigh to oppose Irish Catholic emigration to Scotland.

Births

• 11 January – Duncan Glen, poet, literary editor and Professor of Visual Communication (died 2008)
• 4 February – Jimmy Murray, footballer (died 2015)
• 18 February – Mary Ure, actress (died 1975 in London)
• 7 March – Donald Douglas, actor
• 2 April – Donald Gorrie, Liberal Democrat politician and MSP (died 2012)
• 10 May – Harold Davis, Scottish football player, manager (died 2018)
• 10 June – Ian Campbell, folk singer (died 2012)
• 30 June – Dave Duncan, fantasy and science fiction writer, resident in Canada (died 2018 in Canada)
• 13 July – Patricia Leitch writer, best known for children's books (died 2015)
• 12 August – Frederic Lindsay, writer of crime fiction (died 2013)
• 12 September – Felix Reilly, footballer (died 2018)
• 19 September – David McCallum, actor (died 2023 in the United States)
• 11 November – Alexander Goudie, painter (died 2004)
• 26 November – Richard Holloway, Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church
• 19 December – Christopher Smout academic, historian, author and Historiographer Royal in Scotland
• 24 December – Nicholas Fairbairn, lawyer and Conservative politician (died 1995)
• 30 December – Andy Stewart, singer (died 1993)
• Michael Deacon, actor (died 2000 in London)
• Alan Watson, legal scholar (died 2018)

Deaths

• 10 January – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, artist and designer (born 1864)
• 16 February - George Beatson, physician, pioneer in the field of oncology (born 1848 in Trincomalee)
• 16 February - Dorothy Carleton Smyth, artist and designer (born 1880)
• 4 May - Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, architect (born 1848)
• 30 June – Edward Atkinson Hornel, painter (born 1864 in Australia)
• 25 July – John May, international footballer (born 1878)
• 31 July – Robert Fleming, financier (born 1845)
• 30 December – Dugald Cowan, educationalist and Liberal politician (born 1865)
• Janet Milne Rae, novelist (born 1844)

The arts

• May – the first radio play in Gaelic, Dunach, is broadcast by the BBC.
• The Curtain Theatre (Glasgow) presents its first season.
• Erik Chisholm composes his Straloch Suite.
• Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714.
• Nan Shepherd publishes her last novel A Pass in the Grampians.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1933 in Northern Ireland

References