1909 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1909 Events from the year 1909 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland Law officers Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw; then Alexander Ure Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure; then Arthur Dewar Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh Events March – Construction of Rosyth Dockyard for the Royal Navy on the east coast begins. 17 April – 58 police officers and sixty other people are injured as 6,000 fans invade the pitch and brawl with rival fans and the police at the end of the drawn Scottish Cup Final replay between Rangers and Celtic at Hampden Park, Glasgow. The 1909 Scottish Cup and all medals are withheld.https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/mar/21/theknowledge.sport James Dart Tom Lutz Why no one won the Scottish Cup in 1909 The Guardian London 2007-03-21 2013-05-23 24 May – Dundee United F.C. is formed as Dundee Hibernian, playing its first match on 18 August. 25 May – Oscar Slater found guilty of murder in Glasgow.William Roughead William Roughead Trial of Oscar Slater https://archive.org/details/trialofoscarslat00slatuoft 1910 28 July – Harold Barnwell makes the first powered flight in Scotland, an 80-yard (75 m) hop at 4m altitude in a canard biplane built with his brother Frank at Stirling, before crashing.From Pilcher to the planets: aspects of Glasgow and the West of Scotland's early contribution to aviation as seen against the history of flight and a view of the art of engineering Cameron, Dugald Galbraith, Roderick Thomson, Douglas University of Glasgow 2003 9780852167786 18 September – Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match at their new Firhill Stadium.http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/12830150.100_years_of_Firhill_thrills/ 100 years of Firhill thrills Evening Times 2009-09-18 25 December – International footballer James Main suffers a fatal internal injury while playing for Hibernian F.C. against Partick Thistle at Firhill.http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/Tragic-tale-of-Hibs39-James.5936838.jp Tragic tale of Hibs' James Main, who died of Christmas Day injury The Scotsman Edinburgh 2009-12-23 2014-02-28 A new Highland Land League is formed in Glasgow as a broadly left-wing political party. The Congested Districts Board buys the island of Vatersay from its absentee landowner and breaks it up into 58 crofts.Burnett Ray Land Raids and the Scottish Left Cencrastus 18 Autumn 1984 2–6Quinnell Teàrlach The story of the Vatersay raiders http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6653709.stm 2007-06-07 2024-09-25 BBC The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland is founded by Thomas Haining Gillespie, an Edinburgh lawyer. First British bird ringing programme initiated by Arthur Landsborough Thomson at Aberdeen.Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/103782__912644022.pdf Bird Study 24 1977 202–3 10.1080/00063657709476557 free The Harris Tweed trademark is registered. The Scotch whisky brand name Johnnie Walker is introduced. New pump room built at the spa town of Strathpeffer. Births 16 January – Ellen King, Olympic swimmer (died 1994 in England) 20 January – Olive Fraser, poet (died 1977) 21 January – James Hoy, Labour Member of Parliament for Leith 1945-1970 (died 1976) 6 February – Seán Rafferty, poet (died 1993 in England) 9 February – Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, historian and paleographer (died 2002)Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes 2007, p. 13 23 February – Lavinia Derwent (real name Elizabeth Dodd), author and broadcaster (died 1989)Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes 2007, p. 97 24 February – Ethel MacDonald, anarchist and publisher (died 1958) 6 March – Vagaland (real name Thomas Alexander Robertson), Shetland dialect poet (died 1973) 14 March – William Montgomery Watt, historian and Emeritus Professor in Arabic and Islamic studies (died 2006) 19 March – Marjorie Linklater, campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (died 1997)Marjorie Linklater https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/marjorie-linklater-5560252.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/marjorie-linklater-5560252.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent 2 September 2020 en 4 July 1997 27 April – Muriel C. Bradbrook, literary scholar and authority on Shakespeare (died 1993 in Cambridge) 9 May – Robert Garioch, Scots language poet (died 1981) 26 May – Matt Busby, football manager (died 1994) 5 June – Marion Crawford, Scottish educator and governess to Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth II (died 1988)Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes 2007, pp. 99-100 19 June – William Grant, Lord Grant, Unionist MP, Solicitor General, Lord Advocate, and Lord Justice Clerk (died 1972)https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ruw9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=l0gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2193%2C3639933 Lord Grant killed in car accident Glasgow Herald 20 November 1972 George Watt 1 Google News 12 January 2016 5 September – Archie Jackson, Australian international cricketer (died 1933 in Australia) 23 November – Nigel Tranter, historical writer (died 2000) 2 December – Helen Douglas Adam, poet, writer and dramatist (died 1993 in the United States)Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes 2007, p. 4 Helena Gloag, actress (died 1973) Deaths 1 January – Archibald Sturrock, steam locomotive engineer (born 1816) 2 March – Simon Somerville Laurie, educator (born 1829) 27 March (probable) – John Davidson, poet (born 1857) 26 April – Marcus Dods, theologian (born 1834) 9 August – Jemima Blackburn, painter and illustrator (born 1823) 9 October – Hugh Blackburn, mathematician (born 1823) 29 December – James Main, footballer (born 1886) The Arts 2 November – The first English-language performance of a play by Anton Chekhov opens, The Seagull, translated and directed by George Calderon, by the Glasgow Repertory Theatre company at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow.A Čexov Anniversary The Slavic and East European Journal Spring 1960 Robert Tracy 4 1 25–34 10.2307/304054 304054 See also Timeline of Scottish history 1909 in Ireland Notes Ewan Elizabeth L. Innes Sue Reynolds Sian Pipes Rose Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen 27 June 2007 Edinburgh University Press 978-0-7486-2660-1 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 en References Scotland Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Category:1900s in Scotland Scotland