1967 in Scotland

none January 2015 July 2026 1967 Events from the year 1967 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross Law officers Lord Advocate – Gordon Stott; then Henry Wilson Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Wilson; then Ewan Stewart Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay Events 7 February – Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh, designed by Spence, Glover & Ferguson (project architect: John 'Archie' Dewar), is dedicated. 9 March – Glasgow Pollok by-election: Conservatives take the seat from Labour despite a fall in support as the Scottish National Party gains 28% of the vote. This will be the last time the Conservatives capture a seat at a Scottish by-election until 2026. 26 March – closure of Machrihanish Coalfield.D. M. Seaman Coal Mining in Kintyre http://www.jannimmo.com/COAL%20MINING%20IN%20KINTYRE.pdf 2020-10-09 April–June – the Scottish Region of British Railways withdraws its last steam locomotives. 28 April – Third Lanark A.C. plays its last football match. 25 May – Celtic F.C. become the first British and Northern European team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time with the winning goal being scored by Steve Chalmers in Lisbon, Portugal. 27 May – closure of the last route served by trolleybuses in Glasgow. 1 August – Queen's College, Dundee, become the University of Dundee, wholly independent of the University of St Andrews.https://www.dundee.ac.uk/media/dundeewebsite/pgla/documents/calendar/Charter.pdf University of Dundee Charter University of Dundee 2026-04-14 2022-07-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20220707194246/http://www.dundee.ac.uk/media/dundeewebsite/pgla/documents/calendar/Charter.pdf dead Wayback Machine 9 September – an underground fire at Michael Colliery in East Wemyss in the Fife Coalfield kills 9; more than 300 escape but the mine is closed.Fire At Michael Colliery, Fife, 9th September, 1967 HealeyHero http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/pits/MichaelColliery/MichaelColliery.htm Eric Savage 2020-10-09 20 September – the Queen Elizabeth 2, the largest ship ever built in Scotland and the last passenger ship built on the Clyde, is launched at John Brown & Company's yard at Clydebank. 2 November – Hamilton by-election: Winnie Ewing wins for the Scottish National Party, taking the seat from Labour. 13 November – University of Stirling chartered. 20 December – Scott Lithgow formed to merge the Clyde shipbuilding interests of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows. Deepwater pier on Coll opened. Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist–Leninist) formed. Scottish Civic Trust formed to promote protection and enhancement of the built environment. Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre established in Eskdalemuir. Births January – King Creosote (Kenny Anderson), singer-songwriter 21 February – Neil Oliver, archaeologist and television presenter 11 March – John Barrowman, actor 8 June – Kathryn Imrie, golfer 15 August – Tony Hand, ice hockey player 23 August – Jim Murphy, Labour politician 26 August – Michael Gove, Conservative politician 26 October – Douglas Alexander, Labour politician 29 December – Carl Honoré, writer on current affairs Martin Boyce, sculptor Graeme Macrae Burnet, novelist Nathan Coley, installation artist Deaths 3 January – Mary Garden, operatic soprano (born 1874)Mary Garden Opera Scotland http://www.operascotland.org/person/4366/Mary++Garden www.operascotland.org 30 April 2020 23 March – Duncan Macrae, actor (born 1905) 3 August – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (born 1876) 13 August – Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, poet (born 1887) 6 September – Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (born 1904) Annie Maxton, Independent Labour politician The Arts George Mackay Brown's first book of stories, A Calendar of Love, published See also 1967 in Northern Ireland References Scotland Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Category:1960s in Scotland Scotland