1958 in Scotland

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See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1958 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1957–58 • 1958–59 1958 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1958 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 – John Maclay

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan
• Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant

Judiciary

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

Events

• 13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Unionists
• May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality
• 3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways cease to operate, leaving Glasgow as the only tram network in Scotland. The latter would close four years later in 1962.
• 20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured ^[1]
• 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow ^[2]
• 4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts.
• 11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders.
• 18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued.
• 1 September – First of the 'Cod Wars' between the UK and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out.
• 15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line ^[3]
• 19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal
• October – Thurso High School opened
• 21 November – Construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins. It would open on 4 September 1964, following a ceremony by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. ^[4]
• 5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the UK telephone network when The Queen makes a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost ^[5]
• 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time ^[6]
• Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison.

Births

• 30 January – Derek White, rugby player ^[7]
• 9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer
• 22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor
• 27 March – Peter Howson, figurative painter, war artist
• 14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor
• 25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
• 26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver (died 2021)
• 3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter
• 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer
• 2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress
• 17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker
• 30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster
• 20 September – Maureen Baker, physician
• 27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer
• Christina McAnea, trade union leader
• Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist
• James Robertson, novelist
• Adrian Wiszniewski, figurative painter

Deaths

• 8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888)
• 29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861)
• 2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875)
• 3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872)
• 19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)

The arts

• 7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968

See also

• 1958 in Northern Ireland

References

1. Vaughan, Adrian (1989). Obstruction Danger: significant British railway accidents, 1890-1986. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. pp. 159–64.
2. "Ian Donald's paper in The Lancet in 1958". Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2008.
3. Mackay, Stuart. "AC Cars Railbus Scottish Arrival". www.railcar.co.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
4. "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
5. "Events in Telecommunications History – 1958". BT Archives. Archived from the original on 7 October 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
6. Houston, Rab; Houston, Robert Allan (2008). Scotland: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. Vol. 197. Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN   978-0-19-923079-2 . Retrieved 29 February 2012.
7. "Derek Bolton White". ESPN scrum. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.