1923 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1923 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — William Watson
- Solicitor General for Scotland — David Fleming; then Frederick Thomson
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Clyde
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Alness
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord St Vigeans
Events
- 1 January — Grouping of virtually all British railway companies. The Caledonian (from 1 July), Highland and Glasgow and South Western Railways are merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway; and the North British and Great North of Scotland Railways into the London and North Eastern Railway.
- 6 March — First BBC radio broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).[1]
- 19 March — First BBC radio outside broadcast in Scotland, from the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.[1]
- 23 March — Cutty Sark whisky blended.
- 24 June — Edinburgh Corporation Tramways completes conversion from cable to electric traction.[2]
- 12 August–8 November — Eallabus on Islay records 89 successive rain-days, a British record.[3]
- 10 October — First BBC radio broadcast from Aberdeen (station 2BD).[1]
- 2 December — First BBC radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious address from Aberdeen.[1]
- 6 December — United Kingdom general election. Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, is elected Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Kinross and Western Perthshire.
- The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland calls for curbs on the immigration of Irish Catholics.[4]
- Margaret Kidd becomes the first female member of the Scottish [Bar association|bar]].
- First year of the Bullough Cup, a shinty competition
Births
- 15 January — Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humorist (died 2006)
- May — Pat Smythe, jazz pianist (died 1983 in London)
- 15 May — James Gilbert, television producer (died 2016)
- 18 May — Willie MacRae, Scottish National Party politician and lawyer (died 1985)
- 9 September — Mitchell Downie, footballer (died 2001)
- 21 October — David Brand, Lord Brand, advocate, sheriff and Senator of the College of Justice (died 1996)
- 26 October — Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, politician (died 2005)
- 19 December — Gordon Jackson, actor (died 1990)
Deaths
- 27 March — James Dewar, chemist and physicist (born 1842)
- 4 May — William Robertson Nicoll, Free Church minister, journalist, editor and man of letters (born 1851)
- 4 June — Hume Nisbet, writer and artist (born 1849)
- 25 June — John Annan Bryce, businessman and Liberal politician (born 1841)
- 29 June — Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet, physician (born 1849)
- 26 September — Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, Conservative politician (born 1834)
- 28 September — William York Macgregor, landscape painter (born 1855)
- 30 November — John Maclean, Marxist (born 1879)
- William Robertson, industrialist (born 1856)
The Arts
- The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society is founded by Jean Milligan and Ysobel Stewart.[5]
- John Buchan's novel Midwinter is published.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Walker, David Pat (2011). The BBC in Scotland: the first 50 years. Edinburgh: Luath. ISBN 1-908373-00-8.
- ^ Booth, Gavin (1988). Edinburgh's Trams & Buses. Ratho: Bus Enthusiast Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 0-946265-09-7.
- ^ Meteorological Office (1924). British Rainfall 1923 (PDF). London: HMSO. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ^ The church publishes a booklet entitled The Menace of the Irish Race to Our Scottish Nationality. Goring, Rosemary, ed. (2014). Scotland: the autobiography (New ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 308–11. ISBN 978-0-241-96916-8.
- ^ Knight, Peter, ed. (1996). Scottish Country Dancing. Collins. ISBN 0-00-472500-X.