1942 in Scotland

January 01, 1970

Events from the year 1942 in Scotland.

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Incumbents edit

Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston

Law officers edit

Judiciary edit

Events edit

19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers.^[1]
April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig.^[2]
28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire.^[3]
15 May – RMS Queen Mary arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard.^[4]
July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island.^[5]
25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness.
South Ford Bridge completed, connecting Benbecula to South Uist.^[6]
Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.^[7]

Births edit

5 January – Henry John Burnett, murderer, last man hanged in Scotland (died 1963)
24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter
2 February – Roger Hynd, footballer (died 2017)
21 February – Magnus Linklater, journalist
22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat
24 February – Stuart Henry, disc jockey (died 1995 in Luxembourg)
27 February – Aimi MacDonald, actress and dancer
12 April – Bill Bryden, theatre director
28 April – Geoffrey Hosking, historian
8 May – Norman Lamont, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
14 May – Prentis Hancock, actor
24 May – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
7 June – Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet (died 2022)
18 June – John Bellany, painter (died 2013)^[8]
12 July – Tam White, actor and musician (died 2010)
8 August – Dennis Canavan, politician
12 August – Iain Blair, actor and author (using the pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England)
23 October – Douglas Dunn, poet and academic
16 November – Willie Carson, jockey
24 November – Billy Connolly, comedian
9 December – Billy Bremner, international footballer (died 1997)
10 December – Ann Gloag, born Ann Souter, entrepreneur
12 December – Morag Hood, actress (died 2002 London)
13 December – Hamish Wilson, actor
22 December – Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw, businessman
27 December – Mike Heron, psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band)
Albert Watson, photographer

Deaths edit

2 March - Charles Usher, ophthalmologist from whom Usher Syndrome is named (born 1865)
3 March - George Adam Smith, theologian (born 1856 in Calcutta)
10 August – Bob Kelso, footballer (born 1865)
4 December – Hugh Malcolm, Royal Air Force officer, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1917; killed in action over Tunisia)
Andrew Allan, lithographic artist (born 1863)

The arts edit

Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.

See also edit

References edit

^ Penrith, James; Penrith, Deborah (2007). Orkney & Shetland. The Scottish Islands (3rd ed.). Richmond, London: Crimson Publishing. ISBN 9781854583710.
^ "Bid to buy and restore war-time damaged Loch Arkaig forest". BBC News. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^ "Spa Hospital Fire: £20,000 Strathpeffer outbreak". The Glasgow Herald. 29 April 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
^ . The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
^ "Britain's 'Anthrax Island'". BBC. 25 July 2001. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
^ . Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 September 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
^ . Lighthouse Library. Edinburgh: Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
^ "John Bellany obituary". the Guardian. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2022.

January 01, 1970

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