1916 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1916 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1916 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1915â16 ⢠1916â17
Timeline of Scottish history
1916 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1915â16 ⢠1916â17
Incumbents
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal â Thomas McKinnon Wood until 9 July; Harold Tennant until 5 December; then Robert Munro
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 6 January â HMS King Edward VII sinks off Cape Wrath, having struck a mine laid by SMS Möwe; all but one of the crew survive.
- 15 February â 27-year-old Edinburgh-born Black Watch private John Docherty is shot at dawn at Mazingarbe abattoir on the Western Front (World War I) for desertion, the first Kitchener's Army volunteer executed.[1]
- 2â3 April â World War I: Imperial German Navy Zeppelins bomb Leith and Edinburgh, killing 13.
- 30 May â World War I: Ships of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet put out from Scapa Flow to engage with the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet; the Battle of Jutland is joined next day.
- 5 June â HMS Hampshire sinks off Orkney, probably having struck a German mine, with the loss of 650 lives â including Lord Kitchener and his staff â and only 13 survivors.
- 25 July â North of Scotland Special Military Area declared, restricting access by non-residents to everywhere north of the Great Glen.[2]
- c.23 Augustâ25 October â Dyce Work Camp for conscientious objectors working in the granite quarries operates.
- 31 December â Douglas Haig is promoted to Field marshal.
- The white-tailed sea eagle last breeds in the UK, on Skye (prior to reintroduction).[3]
Births
- 11 May â Edward Boyd, screenwriter (died 1989)
- 20 May â John McIntyre, theologian and Church of Scotland minister (died 2005)
- 16 June â John Young, actor (died 1996)
- 10 July â Harry Gourlay, Labour MP from 1959 (died 1987)
- 11 August â Benny Lee, comedy actor and singer (died 1995)
- 18 October â Anthony Dawson, actor (died 1992)
- 22 October â Peter Brodie, Church of Scotland minister, Moderator of the General Assembly (died 1996)
- 28 October â Jessie Kesson, born Jessie Grant McDonald, writer and radio producer (died 1994)
- 21 November â David Syme Russell, theologian and author (died 2010 in Bristol)
- 7 November â Ian Niall, born John McNeillie, author (died 2002 in England)
- 18 December â Douglas Fraser, union leader (died 2008 in the United States)
- Angus McPhee, outsider artist (died 1997)
Deaths
- 21 January â David Finlay, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross; killed in action in Mesopotamia (born 1893)
- 6 March â Sir James Key Caird, jute manufacturer and benefactor (born 1837)
- 6 April â Andrew Ross, Scotland rugby union international and merchant seaman; killed in action in France (born c. 1880)
- 3 May â William Hardie, classical scholar, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University from 1895 (born 1862)
- 27 May â William Leiper, architect (born 1839)
- 1 July â James Youll Turnbull, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross; killed in action in France (born 1883)
- 23 July â William Ramsay, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (born 1852)
- 3 October â James Burgess, archaeologist active in India (born 1832)
- 26 November â Alexander Robertson MacEwen, writer, minister, professor and Moderator of the United Free Church of Scotland (born 1851)
The arts
- JulyâOctober â during the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front (World War I), Cameron Highlander Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna composes the Gaelic love song An Eala Bhà n ("The White Swan") in the oral literature tradition.
- c. November â the Incorporation of Architects in Scotland is founded in Edinburgh.
- Joseph Lee's Ballads of Battle is published.
