1935 in Scotland

← 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 1935 in Scotland → 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
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See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1935 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1934–35 • 1935–36

Events from the year 1935 in Scotland .

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• 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, glam rock musician (died 1982 in Belgium)
• 21 February – Mark McManus, film and television actor (died 1994) ^[8]
• 2 March – Jackie Brown, boxer (died 2020)
• 4 March – Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
• 12 April – Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
• 5 May – Eddie Linden, poet and political activist
• 8 May – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, politician
• 9 May – Zander Wedderburn, psychologist (died 2017)
• 7 June – William Stewart, biologist and academic
• 16 July – Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament 1974–79 (died 2006) ^[9]
• 10 August – John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
• 27 August – Eddie Connachan, goalkeeper (died 2021 in South Africa)
• 15 October – Richard McTaggart, boxer
• 23 October – Ewan Hooper, actor
• 22 November – Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014)
• 3 December – Robin Neillands writer specialising in travel and military history (died 2006)
• 26 December – Stevie Chalmers, footballer (died 2019)
• 31 December – Jeff Torrington, novelist (died 2008)
• Jack Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer (died 2013)
• Donald Forbes, criminal, "Scotland's most dangerous man" (died 2008)
• Hamish MacDonald, impressionist and colourist painter (died 2008)

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)
• 22 April – Frederick Farrell, watercolourist, war artist (born 1882)
• 28 April – Sir Alexander Mackenzie, composer (born 1847)
• 5 June – James Manson, mechanical engineer (born 1845)
• 22 June – George Brisbane Scott Douglas, poet and writer (born 1856 in Gibraltar)
• 27 September – William W. Naismith, mountaineer (born 1856)
• 11 October – Samuel Peploe, painter (born 1871)
• 16 October – Margaret Moyes Black, novelist and biographer (born 1853)
• 22 November – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (born 1880)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1935 in Northern Ireland

References

1. Wright, John; Maclean, Ian (1997). Circles Under the Clyde: a history of the Glasgow Underground. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. pp. 58–87. ISBN   1-85414-190-2.
2. "No. 15174". The Edinburgh Gazette . 17 May 1935. p. 424.
3. Little, Lawson (2000). Kerr's Miniature Railway: Scotland's Oldest Small-Scale Line. The Narrow Gauge, no. 169. Narrow Gauge Railway Society. ISBN   0-9507169-9-5.
4. "Boxing News – Fighter Bios – Benny Lynch – Former world flyweight champion". SecondsOut. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
5. "The Flag in the Wind: Notable Dates in History". The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
6. "William Gallacher". Renfrewshire Council. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
7. "No. 15231". The Edinburgh Gazette . 3 December 1935. p. 1021.
8. "Obituary: Mark McManus". The Independent. 6 June 1994. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
9. Wilson, Brian (25 September 2006). "Obituary: Douglas Henderson". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2018.