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1938 in Scotland
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1938
Events from the year 1938 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland
Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Walter Elliot until 16 May; then John Colville
Law officers
Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper
Solicitor General for Scotland – James Reid
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord MacGregor Mitchell, then Lord Murray
Events
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27 April – Second Division team East Fife F.C. uniquely win the Scottish Cup in Association football.Notable Dates in History http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2014-07-21 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm 23 May 2014
3 May – Empire Exhibition opens in Glasgow.Appendix B: Fair Statistics Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions 416 Pelle Findling McFarland & Company, Inc 2008 978-0-7864-3416-9
30 July – The Beano comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. of Dundee, goes on sale across the U.K.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006
27 September – 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.http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-2031-broughton-place-broughton-glenholm-and-kil Broughton Place, Broughton British Listed Buildings 2014-09-02
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
1 January – Dolina MacLennan, Leòdhasach traditional singer, actress and Gaelic broadcaster
2 January – Ian Brady, born Ian Duncan Stewart, serial killer (died 2017 in Ashworth Hospital)
16 February – Willie Hamilton, footballer (died 1976 in Canada)
7 March – 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 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish National Party leader (died 2017)
5 June – Moira Anderson, singer
18 June – Michael Sheard, character actor (died 2005)
27 June – David Hope, judge
7 June – Ian St John, footballer and manager (died 2021 in England)
28 July – Ian McCaskill, weatherman (died 2016)
13 September – John Smith, UK Labour Party leader (died 1994 in London)
14 September – Nicol Williamson, actor (died 2011)
20 October – Iain Macmillan, photographer (died 2006)Iain MacMillan https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/iain-macmillan-1-1118391 Scotsman 23 February 2018 en
22 October – Alan Gilzean, footballer (died 2018)
25 November – Maria Fyfe, née O'Neill, politician (died 2020)
28 November – Frank Haffey, goalkeeper
16 December – 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 – Sir James Crichton-Browne, psychiatrist (born 1840)
9 April – Moses McNeil, footballer, a founder of Rangers F.C. (born 1855)
11 April – David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1854)
25 April – Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1934–38 (born 1875)
29 April – James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, sculptor and poet (born 1856)
2 July – John James Burnet, architect (born 1857)
29 August – John Macdonald, sportsman and physician (died 1861)
The arts
Hugh S. Roberton writes the "Mingulay Boat Song".
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
1938 in Northern Ireland
References
Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland
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