1928 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1928 Events from the year 1928 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt Law officers Lord Advocate – William Watson Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Munro MacRobert Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans Events 11 February – formation of the National Party of Scotland, a predecessor the Scottish National Party. On 23 June it holds a demonstration at Stirling marking the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.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 31 March – the Scotland national football team defeat England 5–1 at Wembley Stadium. 28 April – June: Motorcycle speedway racing staged at Celtic Park.Simon Inglis Football Grounds of Britain 1996 London CollinsWillow 0-00-218426-5 432 May The Scottish county of Forfarshire resolves to revert to its historic name of Angus.Forfarshire's New Name The Times London 1928-10-24 8 45032 It was last May that the Forfarshire County Council passed a resolution... Carntyne Stadium in Glasgow opened for greyhound racing. Dirt track motorcycle speedway is also staged here, as is the first Scottish Greyhound Derby. 1 May – the London and North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman steam-hauled express train begins to run non-stop over the 393 mi km of the East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 369–370 0-7126-5616-2 18 June – transatlantic liner SS Duchess of Richmond is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank for Canadian Pacific Steamships. 3 July – inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 20 July – Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal overturns Oscar Slater's 1909 murder conviction. 26 August – in Paisley, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v. Stevenson.Chapman Matthew The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson London Wildy, Simmons & Hill 2010 0-85490-049-7 25 October – a passenger express runs into the rear of a derailed freight train near Dinwoodie railway station with 4 deaths.Accident at Dinwoodie - Wamphray on 25th October 1928 http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=566 Railways Archive 2014-08-06 Grampian hydroelectricity scheme initiated.W. R. Kermack 19 Centuries of Scotland Edinburgh Johnston 1944 92 First high-voltage electricity pylon for the UK National Grid is erected near Edinburgh.http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/enquiries/energy/evidence/ShawA1.pdf PDF Kelvin to Weir, and on to GB SYS 2005 2005-09-29 Alan Shaw Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011-01-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20090304090015/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/enquiries/energy/evidence/ShawA1.pdf 4 March 2009 dead Reconstruction of Paisley Abbey completed. Politics of Edinburgh: Progressives form a group on the local council. Births 1 January – Iain Crichton Smith, poet (died 1998) 17 January – Matt McGinn, folk singer (died 1977) 29 February – Irene Sunters, actress (died 2005) 10 March – Alex McAvoy, actor (died 2005) 11 March – Sandy Mactaggart, Scottish-Canadian educator and philanthropist (died 2017) 4 April – Jimmy Logan, born James Allan Short, entertainer (died 2001) 24 April – Tommy Docherty, footballer and manager (died 2020 in England) 7 April – Gael Turnbull, poet (died 2004) 11 April – Duncan Williamson, storyteller and singer (died 2007) 22 May – John Mackenzie, film director (died 2011) 27 May – Thea Musgrave, classical composer 2 June – Calum Kennedy, singer (died 2006)Wilson Brian Obituary: Calum Kennedy https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/22/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries The Guardian London 23 February 2018 en 21 April 2006 5 June – James Kennaway, novelist and screenwriter (died 1968 in England) 29 June – Ian Bannen, actor (died 1999)Ian Bannen https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/nov/05/guardianobituaries1 the Guardian 17 September 2022 en 5 November 1999 16 July – Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor (died 1991 in Ireland) 8 August – Peter Keenan, boxer (died 2000) 21 September – Con Devitt, Scottish-born New Zealand trade unionist (died 2014) 6 October – Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic (died 2015)Flora MacNeil obituary https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/20/flora-macneil The Guardian 24 December 2020 en 20 May 2015 9 October – Joseph Brady, actor (died 2001 in London) 28 October – Lawrie Reilly, international footballer (died 2013) 7 December - Kay Matheson, Gaelic scholar and one of four students involved in the 1950 removal of the Stone of Scone (died 2021)Obituary: Kay Matheson, teacher https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-kay-matheson-teacher-1568530 2021-09-22 www.scotsman.com en 11 December – Andy MacMillan, architect (died 2014) 27 November – Sir Arnold Clark billionaire car dealer (died 2017) 28 December – Ian Steel, road racing cyclist (died 2015) John Maxwell Anderson, consultant surgeon (died 1982) Deaths 2 January – Thomas McMillan, footballer (born 1866) 14 January – Andrew MacLeish, businessman (born 1838) January – Alexander Reid, art dealer (born 1854) 13 April – Charles Sims, painter (born 1873 in England; suicide) 26 May – John Burnet, classicist (born 1863) 28 May – Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon, Scottish surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, (born 1858) 26 August – Colin Campbell, film director (born 1859)Donald W. McCaffrey Christopher P. Jacobs Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca registration 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30345-6 65– 29 October – John Macintyre, laryngologist and pioneer radiographer (born 1857) 13 November – Alexander William Mair, academic (born 1875; house fire)John Venn Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=OuU54j4aT6QC&pg=PA293 15 September 2011 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-03614-6 293 10 December – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and watercolourist (born 1868; died in London) 24 December – Thomas Corsan Morton, painter (born 1859) The arts The Fife Miner Players begin to tour Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, concerning the effect of the 1926 United Kingdom general strike in the Fife Coalfield. Nan Shepherd's first novel The Quarry Wood is published. See also Timeline of Scottish history 1928 in Northern Ireland References Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1920s in Scotland Scotland