1926 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1926 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1926 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1925â26 ⢠1926â27
Timeline of Scottish history
1926 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1925â26 ⢠1926â27
Incumbents
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal â Sir John Gilmour, Bt until post abolished 26 July
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal, from 15 July â Sir John Gilmour, Bt
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 29 January â Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire by-elections: Conservatives retain the seats.
- 26 March â Bothwell by-election: Labour retains the seat.
- 3 â 12 May: 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Some violence in Glasgow.
- 26 November â launch, under the auspices of the Scots National League, of a new monthly Nationalist newspaper entitled The Scots Independent.[1]
- Findhorn Bridge near Tomatin completed.[2]
- First stage of Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme constructed.
- Scotland's only sugar beet processing plant is opened at Cupar.
- Sacramento River sternwheel paddle steamers Delta King and Delta Queen are shipped from William Denny and Brothers' yard at Dumbarton to California.
- The post of Secretary for Scotland upgraded to a full Secretary of State appointment
Births
- 13 January â Craigie Aitchison, painter (died 2009)
- 17 January â Moira Shearer, ballet dancer (died 2006 in England)[3]
- 11 February â Alexander Gibson, conductor and opera intendant (died 1995)
- 19 February â Charlie Cox, footballer (died 2008)
- 8 March â Edith MacArthur, actress (died 2018)
- 12 March â Gudrun Ure, actress (died 2024)
- 22 March â Alastair Reid, poet and scholar of South American literature (died 2014 in the United States)
- 1 April â William Macpherson, High Court judge and clan chief (died 2021)[4]
- 3 April â Andrew Keir, actor (died 1997 in England)
- 22 April â James Stirling, architect (died 1992 in England)
- 24 May â Stanley Baxter, comic actor (died 2025 in England)
- 31 May â Duncan Campbell, trumpet player (died 2013 in England)
- 2 July â Morag Beaton, dramatic soprano (died 2010 in Australia)
- 3 August â Rona Anderson, actress (died 2013 in England)[5]
- 15 August â D. E. R. Watt, historian (died 2004)
- 4 September â George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of liquid crystal technology (died 2013)
- 12 September â Dave Valentine, international rugby player (died 1976)
- 17 October â Archie Duncan, historian (died 2017)
- 9 November â Johnny Beattie, comedian (died 2020)
Deaths
- 2 January â John Gray McKendrick, physiologist, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow (born 1841)
- 3 February â Archibald White Maconochie, businessman and MP (born 1855)[6]
- 4 April â John McTavish footballer (born 1885)
- 31 July â John McPherson, international footballer (born 1868)
- 4 September â Alexander Morison McAldowie, physician, folklorist and ornithologist (born 1852)
The arts
- 22 November â Hugh MacDiarmid's Scots language poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is published.