1942 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1942 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cooper
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson
Events
[edit]- 19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers.[1]
- April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig.[2]
- 28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire.[3]
- 15 May – RMS Queen Mary arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard.[4]
- July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island.[5]
- 25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness.
- South Ford Bridge completed, connecting Benbecula to South Uist.[6]
- Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.[7]
Births
[edit]- 5 January – Henry John Burnett, murderer, last man hanged in Scotland (died 1963)
- 24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter
- 2 February – Roger Hynd, footballer (died 2017)
- 21 February – Magnus Linklater, journalist
- 22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat
- 24 February – Stuart Henry, disc jockey (died 1995 in Luxembourg)
- 27 February – Aimi MacDonald, actress and dancer
- 12 April – Bill Bryden, theatre director
- 28 April – Geoffrey Hosking, historian
- 8 May – Norman Lamont, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- 14 May – Prentis Hancock, actor
- 24 May – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 7 June – Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet (died 2022)
- 18 June – John Bellany, painter (died 2013)[8]
- 12 July – Tam White, actor and musician (died 2010)
- 8 August – Dennis Canavan, politician
- 12 August – Iain Blair, actor and author (using the pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England)
- 23 October – Douglas Dunn, poet and academic
- 16 November – Willie Carson, jockey
- 24 November – Billy Connolly, comedian
- 9 December – Billy Bremner, international footballer (died 1997)
- 10 December – Ann Gloag, born Ann Souter, entrepreneur
- 12 December – Morag Hood, actress (died 2002 London)
- 13 December – Hamish Wilson, actor
- 22 December – Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw, businessman
- 27 December – Mike Heron, psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band)
- Albert Watson, photographer
Deaths
[edit]- 2 March - Charles Usher, ophthalmologist from whom Usher Syndrome is named (born 1865)
- 3 March - George Adam Smith, theologian (born 1856 in Calcutta)
- 10 August – Bob Kelso, footballer (born 1865)
- 4 December – Hugh Malcolm, Royal Air Force officer, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1917; killed in action over Tunisia)
- Andrew Allan, lithographic artist (born 1863)
The arts
[edit]- Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Penrith, James; Penrith, Deborah (2007). Orkney & Shetland. The Scottish Islands (3rd ed.). Richmond, London: Crimson Publishing. ISBN 9781854583710.
- ^ "Bid to buy and restore war-time damaged Loch Arkaig forest". BBC News. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ "Spa Hospital Fire: £20,000 Strathpeffer outbreak". The Glasgow Herald. 29 April 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- ^ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Britain's 'Anthrax Island'". BBC. 25 July 2001. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "South Ford Causeway". Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 September 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- ^ "Monach". Lighthouse Library. Edinburgh: Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "John Bellany obituary". the Guardian. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2022.