1936 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1936 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1936 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1935â36 ⢠1936â37
Timeline of Scottish history
1936 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1935â36 ⢠1936â37
Incumbents
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal â Sir Godfrey Collins until 29 October; then Walter Elliot
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Albert Russell until June; then James Reid
Judiciary
Events
- 27â31 January â The Combined Scottish Universities by-election sees former UK Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald returned to the House of Commons.
- March â Scottish Ornithologists' Club founded.
- 8 March â Comic strip characters The Broons and Oor Wullie first appear in The Sunday Post.
- 7 June â First outdoors radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC.[1]
- 10 June â First timetabled service to Barra Airport, on Traigh Mhòr beach, offered by Northern & Scottish Airways.[2]
- 23 September â Prince Albert and his wife, the Duchess of York, open a new wing of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while his brother Edward VIII meets Wallis Simpson at Aberdeen railway station en route to Balmoral Castle[3]
- 29 October â Kincardine Bridge opened across the Firth of Forth.
- November â Punjabi-born Dr. Jainti Dass Saggar becomes the first non-White local authority councillor in Scotland, being elected for the Scottish Labour Party in Dundee.
- 20 November â The Maybury roadhouse opens on the outskirts of Edinburgh, a notable example of Art Deco by Paterson & Broom.
Births
- 7 January â Hunter Davies, writer
- 10 February
- James Alexander Gordon, radio announcer (died 2014 in England)
- Euan MacKie, archaeologist and anthropologist (died 2020)
- 11 February â Sylvia Wishart, landscape artist (died 2008)
- 4 March â Jim Clark, motor racing driver (killed 1968 in motor racing accident at Hockenheimring, Germany)
- 26 March â John Malcolm, film and television actor (died 2008)
- 17 April â Rona Lightfoot, bagpiper and singer
- 24 April â Davie Sneddon, footballer (died 2020)
- 26 April â Pat Quinn, footballer (died 2020)
- 28 April â Kenneth White, poet, academic and writer (died 2023)
- 5 May â John Maxton, politician
- 8 May â George Mulhall, footballer (died 2018 in England)
- 17 May â James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane, businessman and politician (died 2020)
- 27 May â Eric Anderson, born William Kinloch Anderson, educator, Provost of Eton College (died 2020)
- 10 June â Marion Chesney, novelist (died 2019)
- 25 June â Roy Williamson, folk musician (died 1990)
- 26 June â Robert Maclennan, Liberal Democrat politician (died 2020)
- 27 June â Robin Hall, folk singer (died 1998)
- 5 July â James Mirrlees, economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (died 2018 in England)
- 9 July â Richard Wilson, actor[4]
- 18 September â Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1987)
- 6 October â Sandra Voe, actress
- 21 November â James A. Mackay, writer and philatelist (died 2007)
- 25 November â William McIlvanney, novelist, short story writer and poet (died 2015)
- 1 December â Crawford Fairbrother, high jumper (died 1986)
- 2 December â Eileen McCallum actress
- 26 December â Tormod MacGill-Eain, Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster (died 2017)
- Stewart Conn, poet and playwright
- Brian Quinn, economist and Chairman of Celtic F.C.
Deaths
- 6 February â Charles Bellany Thomson, international footballer (born 1878)
- 23 February â William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1917â1921) and Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and 1929-1931 (born 1863)
- 2 March â Donald Alexander Mackenzie, journalist and folklorist (born 1873)
- 20 March â Cunninghame Graham, politician (first president of the Scottish National Party), adventurer and writer (born 1852; died in Argentina)
- 9 April â William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, industrialist (born 1856)
- 25 May â Sir Robert Sangster Rait, historian, Historiographer Royal (born 1874)
- 4 November â John Henry Lorimer portrait and genre painter (born 1856)
- 22 November â Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, soldier and clan chief (born 1835)
- 2 December â Dugald Christie, missionary in China, founder of the Shengjing Clinic and Mukden Medical College (born 1885)
- Joseph Morris Henderson, Glaswegian landscape, portrait, genre and coastal scenery oil and watercolour painter (born 1863)
The arts
- Edwin Muir publishes Scott and Scotland.