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1935 in Scotland
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1935
Events from the year 1935 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland
Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins
Law officers
Lord Advocate – Wilfrid Normand until April; then Douglas Jamieson until December; then Thomas Mackay Cooper
Solicitor General for Scotland – Douglas Jamieson until April; vacant until May; then Thomas Mackay Cooper until December; then Albert Russell
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde until 1 April; then Lord Normand
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord MacGregor Mitchell
Events
31 March & 5 December – Glasgow Subway electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectivelyJohn Wright Ian Maclean Circles Under the Clyde: a history of the Glasgow Underground Harrow Weald Capital Transport 1997 1-85414-190-2 58–87
16 May – Thomas Mackay Cooper becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,15174 17 May 1935 424 e replacing Douglas Jamieson
22 June – Kerr's Miniature Railway at Arbroath opens for businessLawson Little Kerr's Miniature Railway: Scotland's Oldest Small-Scale Line Narrow Gauge Railway Society 2000 The Narrow Gauge, no. 169 0-9507169-9-5
9 September – Glaswegian flyweight Benny Lynch becomes the first Scottish boxing world champion in a bout in Manchesterhttp://www.secondsout.com/legends/fighter-bios/benny-lynch--former-world-flyweight-champion Boxing News – Fighter Bios – Benny Lynch – Former world flyweight champion SecondsOut 2014-05-24
mid–late September – Lancaster general practitioner Buck Ruxton disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near Moffat
23 October – a footbridge across the River Forth at Cambuskenneth replaces a ferryThe Flag in the Wind: Notable Dates in History http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm The Scots Independent 2014-07-21 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm 23 May 2014
2 November – Scottish-born thriller-writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada
14 November – UK General Election: The Communist Party of Great Britain candidate, Willie Gallacher, wins the constituency of West Fifehttp://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/webcontent/home/services/leisure+and+culture/heritage+and+local+history/els-jh-famouspeoplewilliamgallacher William Gallacher Renfrewshire Council 2014-06-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20130414070712/http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/webcontent/home/services/leisure+and+culture/heritage+and+local+history/els-jh-famouspeoplewilliamgallacher 14 April 2013 dead
2 December – Albert Russell becomes Solicitor General for Scotland, 15231 3 December 1935 1021 e replacing Thomas Mackay Cooper
Edwin Muir publishes Scottish Journey
Births
5 February – Alex Harvey, glam rock musician (died 1982 in Belgium)
21 February – Mark McManus, film and television actor (died 1994)Obituary: Mark McManus https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mark-mcmanus-1420944.html The Independent 27 November 2022 en 6 June 1994
2 March – Jackie Brown, boxer (died 2020)
4 March – Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
12 April – Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
5 May – Eddie Linden, poet and political activist (died 2023)
8 May – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, politician
9 May – Zander Wedderburn, psychologist (died 2017)
7 June – William Stewart, biologist and academic
16 July – Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament 1974–79 (died 2006)Wilson Brian Obituary: Douglas Henderson https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/26/guardianobituaries.obituaries1 The Guardian 24 February 2018 en 25 September 2006
10 August – John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
27 August – Eddie Connachan, goalkeeper (died 2021 in South Africa)
15 October – Richard McTaggart, boxer
23 October – Ewan Hooper, actor
22 November – Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014)
3 December – Robin Neillands writer specialising in travel and military history (died 2006)
26 December – Stevie Chalmers, footballer (died 2019)
31 December – Jeff Torrington, novelist (died 2008)
Jack Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer (died 2013)
Donald Forbes, criminal, "Scotland's most dangerous man" (died 2008)
Hamish MacDonald, impressionist and colourist painter (died 2008)
Deaths
12 March – Malcolm Smith, Liberal Party politician and MP (born 1856)
16 March – John James Rickard Macleod, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1876)
22 April – Frederick Farrell, watercolourist, war artist (born 1882)
28 April – Sir Alexander Mackenzie, composer (born 1847)
5 June – James Manson, mechanical engineer (born 1845)
22 June – George Brisbane Scott Douglas, poet and writer (born 1856 in Gibraltar)
27 September – William W. Naismith, mountaineer (born 1856)
11 October – Samuel Peploe, painter (born 1871)
16 October – Margaret Moyes Black, novelist and biographer (born 1853)
22 November – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (born 1880)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
1935 in Northern Ireland
References
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