1938 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1938 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1938 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1937â38 ⢠1938â39
Timeline of Scottish history
1938 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1937â38 ⢠1938â39
Incumbents
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal â Walter Elliot until 16 May; then John Colville
Law officers
Judiciary
Events

- 27 April â Second Division team East Fife F.C. uniquely win the Scottish Cup in Association football.[1]
- 3 May â Empire Exhibition opens in Glasgow.[2]
- 30 July â The Beano comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. of Dundee, goes on sale across the U.K.[3]
- 27 September â RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Clydebank; she is the largest ship in the world at this time.
- Iona Community established by Rev. George MacLeod in Glasgow.
- English landowner David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, buys the island of Inch Kenneth.
- The Hermitage of Braid estate, adjacent to Blackford Hill, is gifted to the city of Edinburgh for recreational purposes by John McDougal.
- The Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is excavated by V. Gordon Childe.
- Broughton Place at Broughton in the Borders is built in the style of a traditional tower house by Basil Spence incorporating decorative reliefs by Hew Lorimer.[4]
- Turner & Newall establish an asbestos cement plant at Dalmuir.
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes The Foundations of Scotland, the first of a 6-volume history.
Births
- 2 January â Ian Brady, born Ian Duncan Stewart, serial killer (died 2017 in Ashworth Hospital)
- 16 February â Willie Hamilton, footballer (died 1976 in Canada)
- 7 March â Alan Cousin, footballer (died 2016)
- 31 March
- Ian Gray, comics scriptwriter (died 2007)
- David Steel, UK Liberal Member of Parliament and Liberal Democrat leader and 1st Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
- 16 April â Gordon Wilson, Scottish National Party leader (died 2017)
- 5 June â Moira Anderson, singer
- 18 June â Michael Sheard, character actor (died 2005)
- 27 June â David Hope, judge
- 7 June â Ian St John, footballer and manager (died 2021 in England)
- 28 July â Ian McCaskill, weatherman (died 2016)
- 13 September â John Smith, UK Labour Party leader (died 1994 in London)
- 14 September â Nicol Williamson, actor (died 2011)
- 20 October â Iain Macmillan, photographer (died 2006)[5]
- 22 October â Alan Gilzean, footballer (died 2018)
- 25 November â Maria Fyfe, née O'Neill, politician (died 2020)
- 28 November â Frank Haffey, goalkeeper
- 16 December â Neil Connery, actor, younger brother of Sean Connery (died 2021)
- John Paisley, actor, working in China
- Roland Poska, graphic artist (died 2017 in the United States)
Deaths
- 31 January â Sir James Crichton-Browne, psychiatrist (born 1840)
- 9 April â Moses McNeil, footballer, a founder of Rangers F.C. (born 1855)
- 11 April â David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1854)
- 25 April â Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1934â38 (born 1875)
- 29 April â James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, sculptor and poet (born 1856)
- 2 July â John James Burnet, architect (born 1857)
- 29 August â John Macdonald, sportsman and physician (died 1861)
The arts
- Hugh S. Roberton writes the "Mingulay Boat Song".
