1935 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1935 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1935 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1934â35 ⢠1935â36
Timeline of Scottish history
1935 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1934â35 ⢠1935â36
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Wilfrid Normand until April; then Douglas Jamieson until December; then Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Douglas Jamieson until April; vacant until May; then Thomas Mackay Cooper until December; then Albert Russell
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General â Lord Clyde until 1 April; then Lord Normand
- Lord Justice Clerk â Lord Aitchison
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court â Lord MacGregor Mitchell
Events
- 31 March & 5 December â Glasgow Subway electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectively[1]
- 16 May â Thomas Mackay Cooper becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,[2] replacing Douglas Jamieson
- 22 June â Kerr's Miniature Railway at Arbroath opens for business[3]
- 9 September â Glaswegian flyweight Benny Lynch becomes the first Scottish boxing world champion in a bout in Manchester[4]
- midâlate September â Lancaster general practitioner Buck Ruxton disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near Moffat
- 23 October â a footbridge across the River Forth at Cambuskenneth replaces a ferry[5]
- 2 November â Scottish-born thriller-writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada
- 14 November â UK General Election: The Communist Party of Great Britain candidate, Willie Gallacher, wins the constituency of West Fife[6]
- 2 December â Albert Russell becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,[7] replacing Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Edwin Muir publishes Scottish Journey
Births
- 5 February â Alex Harvey, glam rock musician (died 1982 in Belgium)
- 21 February â Mark McManus, film and television actor (died 1994)[8]
- 2 March â Jackie Brown, boxer (died 2020)
- 4 March â Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
- 12 April â Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
- 5 May â Eddie Linden, poet and political activist (died 2023)
- 8 May â Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, politician
- 9 May â Zander Wedderburn, psychologist (died 2017)
- 7 June â William Stewart, biologist and academic
- 16 July â Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament 1974â79 (died 2006)[9]
- 10 August â John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
- 27 August â Eddie Connachan, goalkeeper (died 2021 in South Africa)
- 15 October â Richard McTaggart, boxer
- 23 October â Ewan Hooper, actor
- 22 November â Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014)
- 3 December â Robin Neillands writer specialising in travel and military history (died 2006)
- 26 December â Stevie Chalmers, footballer (died 2019)
- 31 December â Jeff Torrington, novelist (died 2008)
- Jack Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer (died 2013)
- Donald Forbes, criminal, "Scotland's most dangerous man" (died 2008)
- Hamish MacDonald, impressionist and colourist painter (died 2008)
Deaths
- 12 March â Malcolm Smith, Liberal Party politician and MP (born 1856)
- 16 March â John James Rickard Macleod, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1876)
- 22 April â Frederick Farrell, watercolourist, war artist (born 1882)
- 28 April â Sir Alexander Mackenzie, composer (born 1847)
- 5 June â James Manson, mechanical engineer (born 1845)
- 22 June â George Brisbane Scott Douglas, poet and writer (born 1856 in Gibraltar)
- 27 September â William W. Naismith, mountaineer (born 1856)
- 11 October â Samuel Peploe, painter (born 1871)
- 16 October â Margaret Moyes Black, novelist and biographer (born 1853)
- 22 November â Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (born 1880)