1913 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1913 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1913 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1912â13 ⢠1913â14
Timeline of Scottish history
1913 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1912â13 ⢠1913â14
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General â Lord Dunedin until 14 October; then Lord Strathclyde
- Lord Justice Clerk â Lord Kingsburgh
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court â Lord Kennedy
Events
- 26 February â the Royal Flying Corps establishes the first operational military airfield for fixed-wing aircraft in the United Kingdom at Montrose.[1]
- 21 April â the Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.
- 27 May â Lieutenant Desmond Arthur dies when his Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 biplane, 205, collapses without warning while flying over Montrose, Scotland's first fatal aircraft accident.
- 6 June â Stoneyetts Hospital is opened at East Muckcroft (later part of Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire), originally for the treatment of people with epilepsy.[2]
- 22 July â Edinburgh Zoo opens.
- 3 August â 22 men are killed by fire at Cadder colliery near Bishopbriggs.[3]
- Dollar, Clackmannanshire, becomes the first Scottish town to appoint a Lady Provost, Lavinia Malcolm.
- Arrol-Johnston have a purpose-built car factory erected near Dumfries.
- Alexanders' Motor Services, predecessor of W. Alexander & Sons, begins running 'omnibus' services in the Falkirk area from a base in Camelon.[4]
- The Highlands and Islands Medical Service is established in the crofting counties on a non-contributory basis.[5]
- Temperance (Scotland) Act 1913 permits local communities to hold polls (from 1920) on whether prohibition should apply in their districts.
- William Crawford bakes biscuits at Leith.
- The Neolithic site at Skara Brae on Mainland, Orkney, is plundered.
- Coal mining production in Scotland peaks at 43.2 million tonnes, employing over 140,000 men and women, who, with their families, make up 10% of the Scottish population.[6]
Births
- 17 February â Alastair Borthwick, broadcaster and mountaineer (died 2003)
- 6 March â Ella Logan, born Georgina Allan, musical theatre performer (died 1969 in the United States)
- 18 March â W. H. Murray, mountaineer and writer (died 1996)
- 2 April
- Ronald Center, composer (died 1973)
- Benny Lynch, flyweight boxer (died 1946)
- 11 April â Winifred Drinkwater, aviator, first woman to hold a commercial pilot's license (died 1996 in New Zealand)
- 13 April â Gordon Donaldson, historian (died 1993)
- 10 May â Alan Gemmell, plant biologist (died 1986)
- 5 June
- Sam Black, war artist and teacher (died 1997 in Canada)
- Douglas Young, classicist, poet and Scottish National Party leader (died 1973 in the United States)
- 25 July â John Cairncross, public servant, spy for the Soviet Union, academic and writer (died 1995 in England)
- 29 July â William George Nicholson Geddes, civil engineer (died 1993)
- 29 July â Jo Grimond, Liberal Party (UK) party leader (died 1993)
- 11 August â Andy Beattie, footballer and manager, first manager of the Scotland men's national football team (died 1983)
- 2 September â Bill Shankly, international footballer and manager (died 1981)
- 5 December â Robert MacBryde, still-life and figure painter, and theatre set designer (died 1966 in Dublin)
- 15 December â Robert McIntyre, Scottish National Party leader (died 1998)
Deaths
- 18 January â George Alexander Gibson, physician and geologist (born 1854)
- 9 February â Sir George Reid, artist (born 1841)
- 20 February â Sir William Arrol, civil engineering contractor (born 1839)
- 12 May â William McEwan, Liberal Party MP (1886â1900) and brewer (born 1827)
- 6 September â James Orr, Presbyterian minister, and professor of church history and of theology (born 1844)
- 23 September â James Campbell Noble, painter (born 1832)
- 21 November â James Howden, mechanical engineer (born 1846)
Arts and literature
- 26 May â Campbeltown Picture House (cinema) opens.[7]