1910 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1910 Events from the year 1910 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 – Alexander Ure Solicitor General for Scotland – Arthur Dewar; then William Hunter Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh Events June – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement. 6–13 August – First Scottish International Aviation Meeting held at Lanark.PB244 – Programme for The Scottish International Aviation Meeting, Lanark, 1910 http://www.dumfriesaviationmuseum.com/pb244-programme-lanark-1910/ Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum 2017-09-07 2020-03-01 17 September – Andrew Blain Baird makes the first powered monoplane flight in Scotland, at Ettrick Bay on the Isle of Bute in a self-built machine.First all-Scottish heavier-than-air powered flight http://www.bairdofbute.com/ 2010 2014-04-08 25 February 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140225103159/http://www.bairdofbute.com/ usurped 19 December – Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow opened The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith. Births 6 May – Jerry Morris, epidemiologist (died 2009)Ashton J. R. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health Professor J N "Jerry" Morris 2000 54 881a 10.1136/jech.54.12.881a 1731598 11076980 10 March – Jane Duncan, born Elizabeth Jane Cameron, novelist (died 1976) 17 March – Molly Weir, actress (died 2004 in London) 19 April – Andrew Gilchrist, Special Operations Executive operative, and later ambassador (died 1993) 23 April – Sheila Scott Macintyre, mathematician (died 1960) 15 July – George Friel, novelist (died 1975) 1 September – Charles Maxwell, radio producer (died 1998) 14 November – Norman MacCaig, poet (died 1996)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarynorman-maccaig-1325669.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarynorman-maccaig-1325669.html 1 May 2022 subscription live Angus Calder Angus Calder Obituary: Norman MacCaig The Independent London 1996-01-25 2014-02-21 27 December – Ian Donald, physician, pioneer in the use of medical ultrasound (died 1987) Deaths 18 January – James Cuthbertson, Scottish-Australian poet and schoolteacher (born 1851) 2 April – William McTaggart, landscape and marine painter (born 1835) 6 April – John McLaren, Lord McLaren, Liberal politician (born 1831) 13 April – William Quiller Orchardson, portraitist and painter (born 1832) 15 April – John Smith, dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator (born 1825) 10 May – William Gordon Stables, naval physician, novelist and pioneer caravanner (born 1840) 23 June – Robert Boog Watson, malacologist and Free Church minister (born 1823) See also Timeline of Scottish history 1910 in Ireland References Scotland Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Category:1910s in Scotland Scotland