1934 in Scotland
Events from the year 1934 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans, then Lord MacGregor Mitchell
Events
- 14 & 16 January – Christina MacLennan gives birth to twins, the first on the island of Scarp in the county of Inverness-shire and the second in Stornoway in the county of Ross and Cromarty.
- 3 April – work on construction of "Hull 534", the ocean liner, at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank resumes after more than 2 years' suspension due to the Great Depression following a financial agreement between the Cunard Line and the British government.
- 7 April – the Scottish National Party is formed by merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party. On 20 April it holds its first public meeting, in Edinburgh.
- 21 April – the "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, much later admitted to be a hoax, is published in the Daily Mail.
- 29 May – first regular domestic airmail service, inaugurated by Highland Airways between Inverness and Kirkwall.
- 28 & 31 July – Gerhard Zucker launches rocket mail experimentally between the Outer Hebridean islands of Scarp and Harris; in both attempts the powder rockets explode.
- 26 September – launching of the at Clydebank.
- 25 December – dedication of the permanent St Columba's Cathedral at Oban, Mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.
- Sandray becomes uninhabited.
- Gordonstoun school established in Moray.
- Original Barrowland Ballroom building is opened in Glasgow by "Barra Queen" Maggie McIver.
- Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes the historical biography Robert Bruce, King of Scots.
Births
- 12 January – I. Howard Marshall, theologian
- 2 February – Hugh McIlvanney, sports journalist
- 12 February – Annette Crosbie, actress
- 8 March – John McLeod, composer
- 11 March – John D. Burgess, bagpipe player
- 17 March – Pat Gerber, author mainly known for children's books
- 7 April – Ian Richardson, actor
- 17 April – Bill Douglas, film director,
- 24 April – John Cameron, Lord Coulsfield, judge
- 5 May – Jim Reid, folk musician
- 10 May – Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet, businessman
- 11 May – Mark Boyle, artist
- 28 August – John Stephen, menswear entrepreneur
- 21 September – David J. Thouless, condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- 14 November – Dave Mackay, footballer and manager
- 30 November – Aileen Paterson, writer and illustrator, best known for her series of children's books about Maisie MacKenzie the kitten
- 28 December – Alasdair Gray, novelist, artist, playwright, academic, teacher and poet
- Tom Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer
- Alasdair Grant Taylor, artist and sculptor
Deaths
- 18 April – Catherine Cranston, tearoom proprietor
- 3 November – Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, founder of the construction firm now called Sir Robert McAlpine
- 14 November – John Joy Bell, writer, creator of Wee Macgreegor
- 18 December – Peter Hodge, referee and football manager
- Esther Blaikie MacKinnon, artist, known for her paintings and engravings
The arts
- September – English actor John Le Mesurier makes his professional stage debut, with the Millicent Ward Repertory Players at the Palladium Theatre, Edinburgh, in J. B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner.
- Helen Cruickshank's poems Up the Noran Water published.
- Hugh MacDiarmid's Stony Limits and Other Poems published.
- Nan Shepherd's poems In the Cairngorms published.