1920 in Scotland
1920 in Scotland |
Years |
1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 |
See also |
1919-20 in Scottish football |
1920-21 in Scottish football |
Events from 1920 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 12 February - Paisley by-election: Herbert Henry Asquith holds the seat for Liberals, thus returning to parliament.
- 17 August - Transatlantic liner RMS Empress of Canada is launched at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at Govan on the Clyde for Canadian Pacific Steamships.
- 5 December - Scotland votes against prohibition.
- First council houses in Scotland, and the first housing estate in Europe to have a district heating system, the Logie Estate in Dundee.[1]
- Edith Hughes establishes her own architectural practice, in Glasgow, the first British woman to do so.
- The fishing village of Obbe on the Isle of Harris is renamed Leverburgh after the English landowner William Lever, Baron Leverhulme.
- Scottish Protestant League founded by Alexander Ratcliffe.[2]
Births
- 3 January - Hugh McCartney, Labour MP (died 2006)
- 27 April - Edwin Morgan, poet (died 2010)
- 17 October - Donald Stewart, SNP MP for the Western Isles (1970–1987) (died 1992)
- 28 November - Alexander Scott, poet and literary scholar (died 1989)
Deaths
- 18 January - John McClure, admiral in the Imperial Chinese Navy (born 1837)
- 14 April - John George Bartholomew, cartographer (born 1860)
- 17 April - Alex Higgins, international footballer (born 1863)
- 10 August - Erskine Beveridge, textile manufacturer and antiquarian (born 1851)
The Arts
- Catherine Carswell publishes her first novel, Open the Door!, set in Glasgow
- Will Fyffe writes and records the song "I Belong to Glasgow"
See also
References
- ↑ "Launch of the Property Valuation Rolls for 1920". ScotlandsPeople. 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ↑ Smyth, J. J. (2000). Labour in Glasgow, 1896-1936: Socialism, Suffrage, Sectarianism. East Linton: Tuckwell. p. 194. ISBN 186232137X.
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