1967 in Scotland
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| See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1967 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1966–67 • 1967–68 1967 in Scottish television | ||||
Events from the year 1967 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch — Elizabeth II (since 6 February 1952)
- 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.
- April–June — The Scottish Region of British Railways withdraws its last steam locomotives.
- 28 April — Last ever football match played by Third Lanark A.C.
- 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.
- 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.
- Scott Lithgow shipbuilders on the River Clyde formed by merger of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows.
- Closure of Michael Colliery at East Wemyss in the Fife Coalfield due to a fire.
- Deepwater pier on Coll opened.
- Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) formed.
- Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre established in Eskdalemuir.
Births
- 11 March — John Barrowman, actor
- 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
- Martin Boyce, sculptor
- Nathan Coley, installation artist
Deaths
- 3 January — Mary Garden, operatic soprano (born 1874)
- 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)