1907 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1907 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1907 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1906â07 ⢠1907â08
Timeline of Scottish history
1907 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1906â07 ⢠1907â08
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 5 February â epidemic of meningitis in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast
- 24 April â Titan Clydebank crane first operates at John Brown & Company's shipyard
- 24 August â last horse trams in Edinburgh operate
- 18 September â Andrew Carnegie receives the freedom of Burntisland[1]
- New Ayr Racecourse opens
- Edinburgh College of Art gains its present name and site
- The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discovered[2]
- Scottish wildcat first scientifically classified[3]
- Limited Partnership Act regulates Scottish limited partnerships
Births
- 2 January â Robert Wilson, tenor (died 1964)
- 4 January â Walter Donaldson, snooker player (died 1973 in England)
- 28 January â Robert McLellan, playwright (died 1985)
- 4 February â James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter (died 1998)
- 16 April â Martin Boddey, film and television actor (died 1975 in London)
- 22 May â Huw Lorimer, sculptor (died 1993)
- 13 August â Sir Basil Spence, architect (died 1976 in Yaxley, Suffolk)
- 28 August â Tom Hanlin, novelist (died 1953)
- 2 October â Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997 in England)[4]
- 7 October â Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist (died 1985 in the United States)
- 4 November â Ferguson Rodger, physician (died 1978)
- 5 December â William Barclay, Professor of Divinity (died 1978)
- 25 December â Andrew Cruickshank, actor (died 1988 in England)
- Jameson Clark, character actor (died 1984)
- Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent and historical novelist (died 2000)
- Betty Henderson, actress (died 1979)
Deaths
- 21 January â John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian (born 1829)
- 4 April â Alexander Macbain, philologist (born 1855)
- 13 May â Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist (born 1827)
- 19 July â William Gunion Rutherford, classicist (born 1853)
- 30 August â James Adam, classicist (born 1860)
- 6 October â David Masson, literary critic and historian (born 1822)
- 4 November â Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar (born 1837)
- 6 November â James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (born 1834)[5]
- 17 December â William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist (born 1824 in Ireland)
- Jane Arthur, feminist and activist (born 1827)