1936 in Scotland

none January 2015 July 2026 1936 Events from the year 1936 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 until 29 October; then Walter Elliot Law officers Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper Solicitor General for Scotland – Albert Russell until June; then 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 Events 27–31 January – The Combined Scottish Universities by-election sees former UK Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald returned to the House of Commons. March – Scottish Ornithologists' Club founded. 8 March – Comic strip characters The Broons and Oor Wullie first appear in The Sunday Post. 7 June – First outdoors radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC.The BBC in Scotland: the first 50 years David Pat Walker Edinburgh Luath 2011 1-908373-00-8 106 https://archive.org/details/bbcinscotlandfir0000walk/page/106 10 June – First timetabled service to Barra Airport, on Traigh Mhòr beach, offered by Northern & Scottish Airways.Roy Calderwood Times subject to Tides: The Story of Barra Airport Erskine Kea Publishing 1999 0-9518958-3-4 23 September – Prince Albert and his wife, the Duchess of York, open a new wing of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while his brother Edward VIII meets Wallis Simpson at Aberdeen railway station en route to Balmoral CastleThe Salt Lake Tribune 24 September 1936 p.14. 29 October – Kincardine Bridge opened across the Firth of Forth. November – Punjabi-born Dr. Jainti Dass Saggar becomes the first non-White local authority councillor in Scotland, being elected for the Scottish Labour Party in Dundee. 20 November – The Maybury roadhouse opens on the outskirts of Edinburgh, a notable example of Art Deco by Paterson & Broom. Births 7 January – Hunter Davies, writer 10 February James Alexander Gordon, radio announcer (died 2014 in England) Euan MacKie, archaeologist and anthropologist (died 2020) 11 February – Sylvia Wishart, landscape artist (died 2008) 4 March – Jim Clark, motor racing driver (killed 1968 in motor racing accident at Hockenheimring, Germany) 26 March – John Malcolm, film and television actor (died 2008) 17 April – Rona Lightfoot, bagpiper and singer 24 April – Davie Sneddon, footballer (died 2020) 26 April – Pat Quinn, footballer (died 2020) 28 April – Kenneth White, poet, academic and writer (died 2023) 5 May – John Maxton, politician 8 May – George Mulhall, footballer (died 2018 in England) 17 May – James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane, businessman and politician (died 2020) 27 May – Eric Anderson, born William Kinloch Anderson, educator, Provost of Eton College (died 2020) 10 June – Marion Chesney, novelist (died 2019) 25 June – Roy Williamson, folk musician (died 1990) 26 June – Robert Maclennan, Liberal Democrat politician (died 2020) 27 June – Robin Hall, folk singer (died 1998) 5 July – James Mirrlees, economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (died 2018 in England) 9 July – Richard Wilson, actorRichard Wilson https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ff7f76e https://web.archive.org/web/20160629033258/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9ff7f76e dead 29 June 2016 BFI 26 December 2020 en 18 September – Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1987) 6 October – Sandra Voe, actress 21 November – James A. Mackay, writer and philatelist (died 2007) 25 November – William McIlvanney, novelist, short story writer and poet (died 2015) 1 December – Crawford Fairbrother, high jumper (died 1986) 2 December – Eileen McCallum actress 26 December – Tormod MacGill-Eain, Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster (died 2017) Stewart Conn, poet and playwright Brian Quinn, economist and Chairman of Celtic F.C. Deaths 6 February – Charles Bellany Thomson, international footballer (born 1878) 23 February – William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1917–1921) and Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and 1929–1931 (born 1863) 2 March – Donald Alexander Mackenzie, journalist and folklorist (born 1873) 20 March – Cunninghame Graham, politician (first president of the Scottish National Party), adventurer and writer (born 1852; died in Argentina) 9 April – William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, industrialist (born 1856) 25 May – Sir Robert Sangster Rait, historian, Historiographer Royal (born 1874) 4 November – John Henry Lorimer portrait and genre painter (born 1856) 22 November – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, soldier and clan chief (born 1835) 2 December – Dugald Christie, missionary in China, founder of the Shengjing Clinic and Mukden Medical College (born 1885) Joseph Morris Henderson, Glaswegian landscape, portrait, genre and coastal scenery oil and watercolour painter (born 1863) The arts Edwin Muir publishes Scott and Scotland. See also Timeline of Scottish history 1936 in Northern Ireland References Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1930s in Scotland Scotland