1919 in Scotland

Events from the year 1919 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Robert Munro

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

1 January – HMY Iolaire is wrecked on rocks off Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis: 205 die, mostly servicemen returning home.
19 January – The Sunday Post first published under this title in Glasgow.
23 January – "Harbour Riot" in Glasgow: confrontation between White and Black merchant seamen.
27 January – general strike call in Glasgow and Belfast.
31 January – Battle of George Square : The police battle with protesters in Glasgow calling for a 40-hour working week; the civil authorities mobilise the Army.
21 March – Queen of the South F.C. formed in Dumfries by merger.
28 April – Fraserburgh life-boat Lady Rothes, on service to HM Drifter Eminent, suffers two crew swept overboard.
12 May – Traprain Treasure of Roman silver found by archaeologists in Haddingtonshire.
21 June – scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow: Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the interned German fleet in Scapa Flow. Nine German sailors are killed.
2 July – the British airship R34 takes off from RAF East Fortune to make the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, to Mineola, New York.
July – First known female graduate in engineering from a Scottish university, Elizabeth Georgeson at the University of Edinburgh.
25 December – opening of Cliftonhill stadium in Coatbridge, the home of Albion Rovers F.C. The opening match sees them lose 2–0 to St Mirren.
English industrialist William Lever, Baron Leverhulme, buys an estate on the Isle of Harris.
Lt.-Col. John MacRae-Gilstrap plans complete reconstruction of the ruined Eilean Donan castle.

Births

15 January – John Junor, newspaper editor
21 January – Eric "Winkle" Brown, test pilot
21 April – James Quinn, Jesuit priest, theologian and hymnodist
9 April – Iain Moncreiffe, officer of arms
12 May – Peter Cochrane, soldier and publisher
18 May – Hugh Brown, Labour politician
21 May – Robert Henderson Blyth, landscape painter and artist
30 May – Eric Lomax, British Army officer and prisoner of war
10 July – George Mackie, Liberal politician
8 August – Willie Woodburn, international footballer
8 September – Alistair Urquhart, soldier, businessman and author
3 November – Ludovic Kennedy, journalist
6 November – Chic Murray, comedian
11 November – Hamish Henderson, folk song collector

Deaths

6 May – William Grant Stevenson, sculptor and portrait painter
11 August – Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist
16 August – James Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde, shipowner
16 October – Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet, mountaineer known for his list of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet
14 November – John Aitken, meteorologist
10 December – John MacDougall Hay, Church of Scotland minister and novelist, of TB