1941 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1941 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch — George VI
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Ernest Brown until 8 February; then Tom Johnston
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — Thomas Mackay Cooper until June; then James Reid
- Solicitor General for Scotland — James Reid until June; Sir David King Murray
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Normand
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Aitchison, then Lord Cooper
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Murray, then Lord Gibson
Events
- 17 January — A German Heinkel He 111 meteorological aircraft is crash-landed on Fair Isle.
- 5 February — The cargo ship SS Politician runs aground on Eriskay.
- 12 February — Tom Johnston is appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, a post which he holds until the end of the wartime coalition.[1]
- 24 February — SS Jonathan Holt is torpedoed in a convoy off Cape Wrath by German submarine U-97 with the loss of 51 of her 57 crew, including English travel writer Robert Byron.
- 13–14 March — Clydebank Blitz: bombing of Clydebank.
- 6–7 May — Greenock Blitz: Greenock is intensively bombed.
- 10 May — Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission.
- 12 May — The Honours of Scotland are secretly buried within Edinburgh Castle as a precaution against invasion.[2]
- 2 June — 2 adults and 8 children are killed at Buckhaven when a naval mine explodes on the foreshore.[3]
- 30 August — First official 'Shetland bus' clandestine mission using Norwegian fishing boats between Shetland and German-occupied Norway.
- 5 November — The Commercial Bar in Fraserburgh receives a direct hit from a German bomb, killing over 30.[3]
- Loudoun Castle is gutted by fire.
Births
- 9 April — Hannah Gordon, television actress
- 9 May — John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley, lawyer and judge
- 18 May — Malcolm Longair, astrophysicist
- 22 May — Menzies Campbell, leader of the U.K. Liberal Democrats
- 22 November — Tom Conti, actor
- 25 December — Kenneth Calman, medical researcher and academic
- 31 December — Alex Ferguson, footballer and manager
Deaths
- 6 April — Kenneth Campbell, airman, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient (born 1917; killed in action over Brest, France)
- 12 April — Charles Murray, Doric dialect poet and civil engineer (born 1864)
- 19 June — William James Cullen, Lord Cullen, judge (born 1859)
- 29 June — Sir Alexander MacEwen, solicitor, Provost of Inverness and first Scottish National Party leader (born 1875 in British India)
- 17 July — Charles Melvin, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1885)
- 3 December — Neil Harris, footballer and manager (born 1894)
The Arts
- A. J. Cronin's novel The Keys of the Kingdom is published.
- Compton Mackenzie's comic novel The Monarch of the Glen is published.
- Sydney Goodsir Smith's first collection Skail Wind - Poems is published in Edinburgh.
See also
References
- ^ Devine, T. M. (1999). The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000. London: Allen Lane. pp. 551–2. ISBN 0713993510.
Johnson was a giant figure in Scottish politics and is revered to this day as the greatest Scottish Secretary of the century.
- ^ Reekie, Christopher (5 April 1993). "How the Honours of Scotland were hidden in the castle to thwart Hitler's invading troops". The Herald. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
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