1910 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1910 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1910 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1909â10 ⢠1910â11
Timeline of Scottish history
1910 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1909â10 ⢠1910â11
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- June â Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
- 6â13 August â First Scottish International Aviation Meeting held at Lanark.[1]
- 17 September â Andrew Blain Baird makes the first powered monoplane flight in Scotland, at Ettrick Bay on the Isle of Bute in a self-built machine.[2]
- 19 December â Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow opened
- The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith.
Births
- 6 May â Jerry Morris, epidemiologist (died 2009)[3]
- 10 March â Jane Duncan, born Elizabeth Jane Cameron, novelist (died 1976)
- 17 March â Molly Weir, actress (died 2004 in London)
- 19 April â Andrew Gilchrist, Special Operations Executive operative, and later ambassador (died 1993)
- 23 April â Sheila Scott Macintyre, mathematician (died 1960)
- 15 July â George Friel, novelist (died 1975)
- 1 September â Charles Maxwell, radio producer (died 1998)
- 14 November â Norman MacCaig, poet (died 1996)[4]
- December â Ian Donald, physician, pioneer in the use of Medical ultrasonography (died 1987)
Deaths
- 18 January â James Cuthbertson, Scottish-Australian poet and schoolteacher (born 1851)
- 2 April â William McTaggart, landscape and marine painter (born 1835)
- 6 April â John McLaren, Lord McLaren, Liberal politician (born 1831)
- 13 April â William Quiller Orchardson, portraitist and painter (born 1832)
- 15 April â John Smith, dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator (born 1825)
- 10 May â William Gordon Stables, naval physician and novelist (born 1840)
- 23 June â Robert Boog Watson, malacologist and Free Church minister (born 1823)