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1907
Events from the year 1907 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland
Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair
Law officers
Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw
Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
5 February – epidemic of meningitis in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast
24 April – Titan Clydebank crane first operates at John Brown & Company's shipyard
24 August – last horse trams in Edinburgh operate
18 September – Andrew Carnegie receives the freedom of Burntislandhttp://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/andrew.htm Andrew Carnegie - Scottish connections Scotcities.com 2015-03-24 4 April 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100404152124/http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/andrew.htm dead
New Ayr Racecourse opens
Edinburgh College of Art gains its present name and site
The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discoveredPeach, B. N. The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Scotland Glasgow H.M.S.O 1907 etal
Scottish wildcat first scientifically classifiedMiller G. S. 1907 L.—Some new European Insectivora and Carnivora Journal of Natural History 20 119 389–398 10.1080/00222930709487354 https://zenodo.org/record/2225984
Limited Partnership Act regulates Scottish limited partnerships
Births
2 January – Robert Wilson, tenor (died 1964)
4 January – Walter Donaldson, snooker player (died 1973 in England)
28 January – Robert McLellan, playwright (died 1985)
4 February – James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter (died 1998)
16 April – Martin Boddey, film and television actor (died 1975 in London)
22 May – Huw Lorimer, sculptor (died 1993)
13 August – Sir Basil Spence, architect (died 1976 in Yaxley, Suffolk)
28 August – Tom Hanlin, novelist (died 1953)
2 October – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997 in England)Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd British biochemist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Robertus-Todd-Baron-Todd Encyclopedia Britannica 10 September 2021 en
7 October – Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist (died 1985 in the United States)
4 November – Ferguson Rodger, physician (died 1978)
5 December – William Barclay, Professor of Divinity (died 1978)
25 December – Andrew Cruickshank, actor (died 1988 in England)
Jameson Clark, character actor (died 1984)
Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent and historical novelist (died 2000)
Betty Henderson, actress (died 1979)
Deaths
21 January – John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian (born 1829)
4 April – Alexander Macbain, philologist (born 1855)
13 May – Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist (born 1827)
19 July – William Gunion Rutherford, classicist (born 1853)
30 August – James Adam, classicist (born 1860)
6 October – David Masson, literary critic and historian (born 1822)
4 November – Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar (born 1837)
6 November – James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (born 1834)Dell R.K. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1990 Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james 13 October 2021 Hector, James
17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist (born 1824 in Ireland)
Jane Arthur, feminist and activist (born 1827)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
1907 in Ireland
References
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Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland
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