1948 in Scotland

none January 2015 July 2026 1948 Events from the year 1948 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Arthur Woodburn Law officers Lord Advocate – John Thomas Wheatley Solicitor General for Scotland – Douglas Johnston Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Cooper Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson Events 1 January – A Scottish Region of British Railways begins to operate as a result of nationalisation of rail transport in Great Britain under the Transport Act 1947.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/lostdecade/timeline_html.shtml The Lost Decade Timeline BBC 2007-09-25 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060821133044/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/lostdecade/timeline_html.shtml 21 August 2006 dmy 6 February – Last judicial hanging at HM Prison Perth, Stanislaw Miszka for the murder of Catherine McIntyre. June – During this year's Highland Show, held at Inverness, the Royal title is bestowed on the event by King George VI. 30 June – Glenrothes is designated as a new town under the New Towns Act 1946.e 16556 299–300 2 July 1948 5 July – The National Health Service begins operating as a result of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1947. 20 October – 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster: A KLM Lockheed Constellation airliner crashes into power cables on approach to Prestwick Airport, killing all 40 on board.At about 23:32 UTC. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19481020-0 Accident description Aviation Safety Network 2014-11-18 Contemporary British reports, e.g. The Times newspaper (October 1948) and the Court of Investigation report (November 1949), cite the accident as occurring early on 21 October. 20 December – Scottish advocate Margaret Kidd becomes the first British woman King's Counsel in Britain.Dame Margaret Henderson Kidd http://iainthepict.blogspot.com/2012/03/dame-margaret-henderson-kidd.html On this day in Scotland ianthepict 2012-03-14 2019-04-07 7 April 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190407164936/http://iainthepict.blogspot.com/2012/03/dame-margaret-henderson-kidd.html dead Timex watch and clock factory in Dundee begins operation. State Institution for Mental Defectives opens at Carstairs for those with mental disorder following temporary use of the premises as an Army hospital.History of the State Hospital http://www.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/About_Us/docs/History%20of%20TSH%20-%20Jan%2012.pdf PDF NHS Scotland January 2012 2014-09-09 The terminology used in this section, describing patients and the bodies looking after them, is no longer used today. https://web.archive.org/web/20140911001855/http://www.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/About_Us/docs/History%20of%20TSH%20-%20Jan%2012.pdf 11 September 2014 dead dmy-all Births 8 January – Gillies MacKinnon, film director 11 January – Joe Harper, international footballer 3 February – Maev Alexander, television and stage actress 9 February – David Hayman, actor and director 24 February – Walter Smith, football manager (died 2021) 26 February – Malcolm MacDonald, classical music critic (died 2014 in England) 3 March – Rosemary Byrne, Scottish Socialist Party then Solidarity MSP (2003–2007) 7 March - Adam McLean, writer on alchemical texts 25 March – Lynn Faulds Wood, television consumer affairs presenter and health campaigner (died 2020 in England) 29 March – Marjorie Ritchie, animal researcher and animal surgeon, part of team who cloned Dolly the sheep (died 2015) 8 April – Barbara Young, public servant and Labour peer 20 April – Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll, colonel and politician, Lord High Constable of Scotland 28 April – Scott Fitzgerald, born William McPhail, singer and musical actor 11 May – Fiona Woolf, born Catherine Fiona Swain, lawyer and Lord Mayor of London 21 May – Denis MacShane, born Denis Matyjaszek, journalist and Labour Party MP 8 June – Lorna Heilbron, actress 10 June – Brian Adam, politician and biochemist (died 2013)Obituary: Brian Adam MSP, politician and biochemist https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-brian-adam-msp-politician-and-biochemist-2469339 www.scotsman.com 25 April 2022 en 15 June – Henry McLeish, footballer, Labour Party MP (1987–2001), MSP (1999–2001) and First Minister of Scotland (2000–2001) 19 June – David MacLennan, theatre actor and producer (died 2014) 20 June – Alan Longmuir, pop guitarist with the Bay City Rollers (died 2018) 18 July – Jim Watt, lightweight boxer 5 August – Gordon Jackson, Labour Party MSP (1999–2007) and lawyer 11 August – Don Boyd, film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist 24 October – Frank McPhee, gangland boss (died 2000) 3 November – Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, singerLulu's Musical Map Of Glasgow https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2018/45/lulus-musical-map-of-glasgow www.bbc.co.uk 8 March 2021 24 November – Barry Simmons, quiz player 29 November – David Rintoul, actor 8 December – Peter Blake, actor (died 2018) 13 December – Brian Wilson, Labour Party MP (1987–2005) 31 December – Sandy Jardine, international footballer and manager (died 2014) David Annand, sculptor James Cosmo, actor James Hunter, historian John Kay, economist Edward McGuire, composer Robert Mone, murderer John Lowrie Morrison, artist Janet Paisley, writer (died 2018) Tom Russell, rock disc jockey Deaths 31 January – Oscar Slater, acquitted of murder (born 1872 in Silesia) 21 February – Frederic Lamond, classical pianist and composer, pupil of Franz Liszt (born 1868) 9 March - William J. Watson, toponymist (born 1865) 27 March - Douglas Ainslie, poet, translator, critic and diplomat (born 1865) 28 May – Unity Mitford, socialite and fascist (born 1914 in England) 1 June – David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans, Scottish advocate and judge, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1918–34 (born 1862) 21 June – D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (born 1860) 17 July – Joseph Westwood, Labour MP (1922–31, 1935–1948) (born 1884) 19 November – Charles Jarvis, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1881) 24 November - O. Douglas, novelist (born 1877) The arts Sydney Goodsir Smith's Under the Eildon Tree: a poem in XXIV elegies is published in Edinburgh. See also 1948 in Northern Ireland References Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1940s in Scotland Scotland