1927 in Scotland

Events from the year 1927 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

28–30 January – gale-force winds batter the British Isles, with a gust of recorded in Paisley and 23 killed.
23 March – Leith by-election: Liberals hold seat.
16 April – the Scottish Cup Final is broadcast live on radio for the first time. Celtic F.C. beat East Fife 3–1.
12 July – official opening in Glasgow of the new Kelvin Hall exhibition venue and George V Bridge.
14 July – the Scottish National War Memorial is opened at Edinburgh Castle.
26 September – David MacBrayne's paddle steamer Grenadier catches fire and sinks at her overnight mooring in Oban with the loss of three crew.
October – a school of pilot whales runs aground in the bay between Bonar Bridge and Ardgay.
Undated
* The Gillespie, Kidd & Coia architectural practice in Glasgow assumes this name.
* Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association formed.
* The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary, revised edition.

Births

24 January – Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, clan chief
16 February – Pearse Hutchinson, poet, broadcaster and translator
23 February – Willie Ormond, international footballer and manager
27 February – Jimmy Halliday, Scottish National Party leader
5 March – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, politician
5 April – Colin Young, film educator
6 April – Nancy Riach, swimmer
12 April – Patrick Meehan, criminal, victim of a miscarriage of justice
23 June – Kenneth McKellar, tenor
29 June – Tom Fleming, actor, director, poet and broadcast commentator
2 July – James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1 October – Sandy Gall, television journalist
5 October – Bruce Millan, Labour Secretary of State for Scotland
7 October – R. D. Laing, psychiatrist
10 October – Thomas Wilson, composer
31 October – Charles Cameron, bizarre magician
7 November – Melissa Stribling, film and television actress
27 November – Arnold Clark, businessman
24 December – John Glashan, born McGlashan, cartoonist
Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect

Deaths

16 January – Haldane Burgess historian, poet, novelist, violinist, linguist and socialist, a noted figure in Shetland's cultural history
16 March – Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, civil servant, writer and Unionist politician
17 March – James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer
26 June – Thomas P. Marwick, architect
8 July – Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll, soldier and Conservative politician
21 July – William Campbell, Lord Skerrington, judge
September – John George Govan businessman and evangelist, founder of The Faith Mission in 1886
10 November – James Thomson, City Engineer, City Architect and Housing Director of Dundee

The arts

15 September – Green's Playhouse opens in Glasgow, the largest cinema in Europe at this date.
Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, showing the effect of the General Strike on the Fife coal mining community, is first performed; and his The Image o' God and Other Poems is published.
Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland formed.