1935 in Scotland

Events from the year 1935 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins

Law officers

Lord Advocate – Wilfrid Normand until April; then Douglas Jamieson until December; then Thomas Mackay Cooper
Solicitor General for Scotland – Douglas Jamieson until April; vacant until May; then Thomas Mackay Cooper until December; then Albert Russell

Judiciary

Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde until 1 April; then Lord Normand
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord MacGregor Mitchell

Events

31 March & 5 December – Glasgow Subway electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectively
16 May – Thomas Mackay Cooper becomes Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing Douglas Jamieson
22 June – Kerr's Miniature Railway at Arbroath opens for business
9 September – Glaswegian flyweight Benny Lynch becomes the first Scottish boxing world champion in a bout in Manchester
mid–late September – Lancaster general practitioner Buck Ruxton disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near Moffat
23 October – a footbridge across the River Forth at Cambuskenneth replaces a ferry
2 November – Scottish-born thriller-writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada
14 November – UK General Election: The Communist Party of Great Britain candidate, Willie Gallacher, wins the constituency of West Fife
2 December – Albert Russell becomes Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing Thomas Mackay Cooper
Edwin Muir publishes ''Scottish Journey''

Births

5 February – Alex Harvey, glam rock musician
21 February – Mark McManus, film and television actor
2 March – Jackie Brown, boxer
4 March – Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer
12 April – Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
5 May – Eddie Linden, poet and political activist
8 May – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, politician
9 May – Zander Wedderburn, psychologist
7 June – William Stewart, biologist and academic
16 July – Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament 1974–79
10 August – John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief
27 August – Eddie Connachan, goalkeeper
15 October – Richard McTaggart, boxer
23 October – Ewan Hooper, actor
22 November – Hugh C. Rae, novelist
3 December – Robin Neillands writer specialising in travel and military history
26 December – Stevie Chalmers, footballer
31 December – Jeff Torrington, novelist
Jack Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer
Donald Forbes, criminal, "Scotland's most dangerous man"
Hamish MacDonald, impressionist and colourist painter

Deaths

12 March – Malcolm Smith, Liberal Party politician and MP
16 March – John James Rickard Macleod, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
22 April – Frederick Farrell, watercolourist, war artist
28 April – Sir Alexander Mackenzie, composer
5 June – James Manson, mechanical engineer
22 June – George Brisbane Scott Douglas, poet and writer
27 September – William W. Naismith, mountaineer
11 October – Samuel Peploe, painter
16 October – Margaret Moyes Black, novelist and biographer
22 November – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual