1946 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1946 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 – Joseph Westwood

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – George Reid Thomson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Daniel Blades

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cooper
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

Events

• 16 March – American Liberty ship Byron Darnton runs aground off Sanda Island; all 54 aboard are rescued. ^[1]
• 13 April – a crowd of 139,468 at Hampden Park, Glasgow, watch the Scotland national football team defeat England 1-0 in a Victory International series Association football match. ^[2]
• 3 May — The Hoover Company opens a factory at Cambuslang. ^[3]
• 10 July – a crowd of 45,000 at Hampden Park watch Jackie Paterson defend his world flyweight boxing title. ^[2]
• 25 July – a train collides with a bus which has crashed through level crossing gates at Balmuckety near Kirriemuir, killing 10. ^[4]
• 27 August – MV Princess Victoria, the first roll-on/roll-off ferry built for service in British waters (the Stranraer–Larne crossing), is launched at William Denny and Brothers' shipyard in Dumbarton.
• 22–27 November – the last election for a university constituency in the United Kingdom is held when the Combined Scottish Universities by-election is held. Walter Elliot (Unionist) wins decisively.
• 5 December
  • A Kilmarnock by-election results in Willie Ross holding the seat for Labour.
  • Scottish edition of the Daily Mail begins publication in Edinburgh.
• Drift mine opened in Machrihanish Coalfield.
• Naturalist Gavin Maxwell purchases the island of Soay, Skye, and attempts to start a commercial shark fishing enterprise there. ^[5]

Births

• 6 January – John Duignan, economist and writer (died 2019)
• 16 January – Graham Masterton, horror author
• 30 January – Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, Lord Advocate
• 28 February – Robin Cook, Labour MP and Foreign Secretary (died 2005)
• 12 April – George Robertson, politician, Secretary General of NATO
• May – Jock Brown, solicitor and football commentator
• 10 May – Donovan, singer, songwriter and guitarist
• 13 May – Bill Torrance, broadcaster
• 1 June – Brian Cox, actor
• 15 June – Michael Lynch), historian
• 9 June – James Kelman, novelist
• 9 July – Bon Scott, hard rock musician (AC/DC) in Australia (died 1980 in London)
• 10 July – Stuart Christie, anarchist (died 2020)
• 16 July – Charles McKean, Professor of Scottish Architectural History (died 2013)
• 29 July – Bill Forsyth, film director
• 19 August – Christopher Malcolm, television and film actor (died 2014 in London)
• 25 August – Gavin Clydesdale Reid, economist
• 27 August – Peter Tobin, serial killer and sex offender
• 14 September – Pete Agnew, rock bassist and backing vocalist
• 14 October – Dan McCafferty, rock singer-songwriter (died 2022)
• 27 October – Margaret Bennett, ethnologist
• 6 November – George Young, rock musician in Australia (died 2017)
• 18 November
  • Andrea Allan, actress
  • Chris Rainbow (born Christopher James Harley), pop rock singer and musician (died 2015)
• 14 December – Peter Lorimer, international footballer (died 2021)
• Louise Martin, sports administrator ^[6]
• Gordeanna McCulloch, folk singer with The Clutha
• Ronald Rae, sculptor

Deaths

• 17 February – Sir George Pirie, painter (born 1863)
• 18 February – Catherine Carswell, biographer and journalist (born 1879)
• 20 May – Jane Findlater, novelist (born 1866)
• 5 June – James Craig Annan, photographer (born 1864)
• 14 June – John Logie Baird, television pioneer (born 1888; died in England)
• 15 July – Binnie Dunlop, editor and advocate of eugenics (born 1874)
• 23 July – James Maxton, MP and leader of the Independent Labour Party (born 1885)
• 6 August – Benny Lynch, flyweight boxer (born 1913)
• 18 August – Marion Angus, Scots language poet (born 1865 in England)
• 9 September – Violet Jacob, historical novelist (born 1863)

Arts and literature

• 22 May – English writer George Orwell leaves London to spend much of the next 18 months at Barnhill, Jura, working on his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four .
• Summer – Robert McLeish's The Gorbals Story is premiered by Glasgow Unity Theatre at the Queens Theatre.
• Oriel Malet's fictionalised biography of Marjory Fleming is published.
• Janet Adam Smith's Life Among the Scots is published.
• The Central Office of Information short film The Glen is Ours is released.

See also

• 1946 in Northern Ireland
• 1946 in Wales

References

1. "Bryon Darnton [sic.]". Canmore . Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 19 April 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
2. "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
3. 'New industry tries vainly to "Buy Scottish"', Daily Record, 4 May 1946, p.5.
4. "Report on the Collision which occurred on 25th July, 1946, at Balmuckety Level Crossing on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway". Railways Archive. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
5. Maxwell, Gavin (1952). Harpoon at a Venture. London: Hart-Davis.
6. "Louise Martin pivotal in smoothing the way for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games". HeraldScotland. 29 December 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2023.