1936 in Scotland

Events from the year 1936 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins until 29 October; then Walter Elliot

Law officers

Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper
Solicitor General for Scotland – Albert Russell until June; then James Reid

Judiciary

Events

27–31 January – The Combined Scottish Universities by-election sees former UK Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald returned to the House of Commons.
March – Scottish Ornithologists' Club founded.
8 March – Comic strip characters The Broons and Oor Wullie first appear in The Sunday Post.
7 June – First outdoors radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC.
10 June – First timetabled service to Barra Airport, on Traigh Mhòr beach, offered by Northern & Scottish Airways.
23 September – Prince Albert and his wife, the Duchess of York, open a new wing of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while his brother Edward VIII meets Wallis Simpson at Aberdeen railway station en route to Balmoral Castle
29 October – Kincardine Bridge opened across the Firth of Forth.
November – Punjabi-born Dr. Jainti Dass Saggar becomes the first non-White local authority councillor in Scotland, being elected for the Scottish Labour Party in Dundee.
20 November – The Maybury roadhouse opens on the outskirts of Edinburgh, a notable example of Art Deco by Paterson & Broom.

Births

7 January – Hunter Davies, writer
10 February
* James Alexander Gordon, radio announcer
* Euan MacKie, archaeologist and anthropologist
11 February – Sylvia Wishart, landscape artist
4 March – Jim Clark, motor racing driver
26 March – John Malcolm, film and television actor
17 April – Rona Lightfoot, bagpiper and singer
24 April – Davie Sneddon, footballer
26 April – Pat Quinn, footballer
28 April – Kenneth White, poet, academic and writer
5 May – John Maxton, politician
8 May – George Mulhall, footballer
17 May – James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane, businessman and politician
27 May – Eric Anderson, born William Kinloch Anderson, educator, Provost of Eton College
10 June – Marion Chesney, novelist
25 June – Roy Williamson, folk musician
26 June – Robert Maclennan, Liberal Democrat politician
27 June – Robin Hall, folk singer
5 July – James Mirrlees, economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
9 July – Richard Wilson, actor
18 September – Hugh Fraser, retailer
6 October – Sandra Voe, actress
21 November – James A. Mackay, writer and philatelist
25 November – William McIlvanney, novelist, short story writer and poet
1 December – Crawford Fairbrother, high jumper
2 December – Eileen McCallum actress
26 December – Tormod MacGill-Eain, Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster
Stewart Conn, poet and playwright
Brian Quinn, economist and Chairman of Celtic F.C.

Deaths

6 February – Charles Bellany Thomson, international footballer
23 February – William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, Leader of the Labour Party and Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and 1929-1931
2 March – Donald Alexander Mackenzie, journalist and folklorist
20 March – Cunninghame Graham, politician, adventurer and writer
9 April – William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, industrialist
25 May – Sir Robert Sangster Rait, historian, Historiographer Royal
4 November – John Henry Lorimer portrait and genre painter
22 November – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, soldier and clan chief
2 December – Dugald Christie, missionary in China, founder of the Shengjing Clinic and Mukden Medical College
Joseph Morris Henderson, Glaswegian landscape, portrait, genre and coastal scenery oil and watercolour painter

The arts

Edwin Muir publishes Scott and Scotland.