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{{Year in Scotland| 1915 }}
Events from the year '''1915 in [[Scotland]]'''.

== Incumbents ==
{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}
* [[Secretary for Scotland]] and [[Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland|Keeper of the Great Seal]] – [[Thomas McKinnon Wood]]

=== Law officers ===
* [[Lord Advocate]] – [[Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness|Robert Munro]]
* [[Solicitor General for Scotland]] – [[Thomas Brash Morison]]

=== Judiciary ===
* [[Lord President of the Court of Session]] and [[Lord Justice General]] – [[Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde|Lord Strathclyde]]
* [[Lord Justice Clerk]] – [[John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh|Lord Kingsburgh]], then [[Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson|Lord Dickson]]
* [[Chairman of the Scottish Land Court]] – [[Neil Kennedy, Lord Kennedy|Lord Kennedy]]

== Events ==
* [[26 January]] – [[Royal Navy]] [[King Edward VII-class battleship|''King Edward VII''-class battleship]] [[HMS Britannia (1904)|HMS ''Britannia'']] runs aground on [[Inchkeith]] in the [[Firth of Forth]] and suffers considerable damage.<ref>Burt, R. A. (1988). ''British Battleships 1889-1904''. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, {{ISBN|0-87021-061-0}}. p. 251; Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M. (ed.) (1979). ''Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905'', New York: Mayflower Books. {{ISBN|0-8317-0302-4}}. p. 9.</ref>
* [[19 February]] – Royal Navy [[Acorn-class destroyer|''Acorn''-class destroyer]] {{HMS|Goldfinch|1910}} is wrecked on Start Point, [[Sanday, Orkney]].
* [[10 March]] – [[World War I]]: [[SM U-12 (Germany)|German submarine ''U-12'']] is hunted down by Royal Navy destroyers {{HMS|Ariel|1911|6}}, {{HMS|Acheron|1911|6}} and {{HMS|Attack|1911|6}} off the Firth of Forth and sunk with the loss of 19 of her crew, 10 being saved.<ref name="Notable Dates">{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History |url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |work=The Flag in the Wind |publisher=[[The Scots Independent]] |access-date=2014-07-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |archive-date=23 May 2014 }}</ref>
* [[11 March]] – World War I: [[Armed merchantman]] {{HMS|Bayano|1913}} is sunk off [[Galloway]] by German U-boat ''[[SM U-27 (Germany)|SM U-27]]'' with the loss of around 200 of her crew, 26 being saved.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Johnston|first=Willie|date=2015-03-12|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-31821949|title=Centenary of HMS Bayano disaster off the Galloway coast|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=2015-03-24}}</ref>
* [[18 March]] – World War I: Royal Navy battleship {{HMS|Dreadnought|1906}} sinks [[SM U-29 (Germany)|German submarine ''U-29'']] with all hands in the [[Pentland Firth]] by ramming her, the only time this tactic is known to have been successfully used by a battleship.
* April – Glasgow becomes the first U.K. city to employ women [[Conductor (transportation)|conductor]]s on public transport for the duration of the War.
* [[25 April]] – World War I: [[Gallipoli Campaign]] – [[Carnoustie]]-born seaman [[George Samson]] wins the [[Victoria Cross]] for his actions under fire during the [[landing at Cape Helles]].<ref name="Notable Dates"/>
* [[22 May]] – [[Quintinshill rail disaster]] near [[Gretna Green]]: collision and fire kill 226, mostly [[Royal Scots]] soldiers, the UK's largest number of fatalities in a [[List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom|railway accident]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Guinness Book of Records}}</ref>
* [[12 June]] – World War I: Oil tanker {{SS|Desabla}} is torpedoed and sunk by [[SM U-17 (Germany)|German submarine ''U-17'']] off [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]].
* [[23 June]] – World War I: Two German submarines sink 17 vessels from the [[Lerwick]] fishing fleet.<ref name="Notable Dates"/>
* [[3 July]] – World War I: [[15th (Scottish) Infantry Division]] receives embarkation orders for France.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 15th (Scottish) Division in 1914-1918|url=http://www.1914-1918.net/15div.htm|work=The Long, Long Trail|access-date=2014-05-30}}</ref>
* [[25 September]] – World War I: [[Battle of Loos]] opens: Piper [[Daniel Laidlaw]] leads 7th Battalion, The [[King's Own Scottish Borderers]] in the advance on the enemy trenches, an action for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29371/supplements/11449|title=Piper Daniel Laidlaw|journal=Supplement to the London Gazette|date=1915-11-18|issue=29371|pages=11449–50|access-date=2014-05-30}}</ref>
* [[27 September]] & [[13 October]] – World War I: [[Tillicoultry]]-born second cousins [[James Dalgleish Pollock]] and [[James Lennox Dawson]] each win the Victoria Cross for their actions at the [[Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt]] (part of the Battle of Loos).
* [[27 October]] – World War I: Glasgow revolutionary socialist anti-war protester [[John Maclean (Scottish socialist)|John Maclean]] is arrested for the first time under the [[Defence of the Realm Act]] and dismissed from his job as a teacher.<ref>{{cite web|title=John Maclean (1879–1923)|first=Michael|last=Byers|year=2002|url=http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/redclyde/redclypeobyemle.htm|work=Red Clydeside|publisher=Glasgow Digital Library ([[University of Strathclyde]])|access-date=2014-07-07}}</ref>
* [[8 November]] – [[Copinsay]] lighthouse in [[Orkney]] (engineer: [[D. Alan Stevenson]]) first illuminated.
* [[27 November]]
** Government introduces legislation to restrict housing rents to their pre-war level following [[Red Clydeside#Rent strikes|Glasgow rent strikes]] led by [[Mary Barbour]].
** Auxiliary cruiser [[RMS Dunottar Castle|HMS ''Caribbean'']] sinks off [[Cape Wrath]] in a storm; 15 are killed.
* [[10 December]] – World War I: [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Douglas Haig]] is appointed to command the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|British Expeditionary Force]].<ref name="Notable Dates"/>
* [[30 December]] – [[Armoured cruiser]] {{HMS|Natal|1905}} capsizes at anchor in the [[Cromarty Firth]] as the result of an internal explosion in her ammunition stores; 390 sailors and some civilians are killed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hampshire|first=A. Cecil|title=They Called It Accident|year=1961|publisher=William Kimber|location=London|oclc=7973925}}</ref>
* World War I – Khaki [[Balmoral bonnet]], known as the [[Tam o' shanter (cap)|tam o' shanter]], introduced for wear by Scottish troops in the trenches of the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].

== Births ==
* [[21 February]] – [[John Brown (footballer born 1915)|John Brown]], international footballer (died [[2005 in Scotland|2005]])
* [[29 March]] – [[George Chisholm (musician)|George Chisholm]], jazz trombonist (died 1997 in London)
* [[8 May]] – [[John George Macleod]], doctor of medicine and a writer of medical textbooks (died [[2006 in Scotland|2006]])
* [[6 September]] – [[Calum Maclean (folklorist)|Calum Maclean]], folklorist (died [[1960 in Scotland|1960]])
* [[27 October]] – [[Robert Alexander Rankin]], mathematician (died [[2001 in Scotland|2001]])
* [[6 November]] – [[David I. Masson]], science-fiction writer and librarian (died 1979 in [[Leeds]])
* [[8 November]] – [[George Sutherland Fraser]], poet and critic (died 1980 in Leicester)
* [[15 November]] – [[David Stirling]], mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the [[Special Air Service]] (died [[1990 in Scotland|1990]])
* [[17 December]] – [[Stuart Hood]] novelist, translator, television producer and Controller of [[BBC Television]] (died [[2011 in Scotland|2011]])
* [[28 December]] – [[Jack Milroy]], comedian (died [[2001 in Scotland|2001]])
* [[31 December]] – [[Neil Paterson (writer)|Neil Paterson]], writer and footballer (died [[1995 in Scotland|1995]])
* [[George Campbell Hay]], poet (died [[1984 in Scotland|1984]])
* [[Ernest Marwick]], writer noted for his writings on [[Orkney]] folklore and history (died [[1977 in Scotland|1977]])

== Deaths ==
* [[13 January]] – [[Mary Slessor]], missionary (born [[1848 in Scotland|1848]]; died in Nigeria)
* [[6 March]] – [[Louisa Jordan]], nurse (born [[1878 in Scotland|1848]]; died of typhus in Serbia)
* [[9 March]] – [[James Donaldson (classical scholar)|Sir James Donaldson]] classical scholar, and educational and theological writer (born [[1831 in Scotland|1831]])<ref>{{cite book|author=University of St. Andrews|title=Library Bulletin of the University of Saint Andrews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJoKAQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=University Press}}</ref>
* [[19 April]] – Sir [[Thomas Clouston]], [[psychiatrist]] (born [[1840 in Scotland|1840]])
* [[23 April]] – Robert W. Sterling, poet (born [[1893 in Scotland|1893]]; killed in action)
* [[8 May]] – [[Walter Lyon (poet)|Walter Lyon]], lawyer and war poet (born [[1886 in Scotland|1886]]; missing in action)
* [[7 July]] – [[Samuel Cockburn (physician)|Samuel Cockburn]], physician, practising [[homeopathy]]  (born [[1823 in Scotland|1823]])
* [[26 September]] – [[Keir Hardie]], socialist, first chairman of the [[Parliamentary Labour Party]] and pacifist (born [[1856 in Scotland|1856]])
* [[2 October]] – [[Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart]], British Army officer and Unionist politician (born [[1883 in Scotland|1883]]; killed in action)
* [[13 October]] – [[Charles Sorley]], poet (born [[1895 in Scotland|1895]]; killed in action)
* [[22 October]] – [[Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet]], physicist (born [[1831 in Scotland|1831]])

==The arts==
* August&ndash;September – [[John Buchan]]'s thriller ''[[The Thirty-Nine Steps]]'', set largely in [[Galloway]] immediately before the outbreak of war and introducing his hero [[Richard Hannay]], is serialised in ''[[Blackwood's Magazine]]'' before being published in book form in October by [[William Blackwood and Sons]] in Edinburgh.
* [[Violet Jacob]]'s poetry collection ''Songs of Angus'' is published.
* Sculptor [[James Pittendrigh Macgillivray]]'s poetry collection ''Pro Patria'' is published.

== See also ==
* [[Timeline of Scottish history]]
* [[1915 in Ireland]]

== References ==
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