1923 in Scotland
1923 in Scotland |
Years |
1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 |
See also |
1922-23 in Scottish football |
1923-24 in Scottish football |
Events from 1923 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January - Grouping of virtually all British railway companies. The Caledonian (from 1 July), Highland and Glasgow and South Western Railways are merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway; and the North British and Great North of Scotland Railways into the London and North Eastern Railway.
- 6 March - First BBC radio broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).[1]
- 19 March - First BBC radio outside broadcast in Scotland, from the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.[1]
- 23 March - Cutty Sark whisky blended.
- 24 June - Edinburgh Corporation Tramways completes conversion from cable to electric traction.[2]
- 10 October - First BBC radio broadcast from Aberdeen (station 2BD).[1]
- 2 December - First BBC radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious address from Aberdeen.[1]
- 6 December - United Kingdom general election. Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, is elected Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Kinross and Western Perthshire.
- The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland calls for curbs on the immigration of Irish Catholics.[3]
Births
- 15 January - Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humorist (died 2006)
- May - Pat Smythe, jazz pianist (died 1983 in London)
- 18 May - Willie MacRae, Scottish National Party politician and lawyer (died 1985)
- 9 September - Mitchell Downie, footballer (died 2001)
- 26 October - Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, politician (died 2005)
- 19 December - Gordon Jackson, actor (died 1990)
Deaths
- 27 March - James Dewar, chemist and physicist (born 1842)
- 4 May - William Robertson Nicoll, Free Church minister, journalist, editor and man of letters (born 1851)
- 4 June - Hume Nisbet, writer and artist (born 1849)
- 25 June - John Annan Bryce, businessman and Liberal politician (born 1841)
- 29 June - Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet, physician (born 1849)
- 26 September - Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, Conservative politician (born 1834)
- 28 September - William York Macgregor, landscape painter (born 1855)
- 30 November - John Maclean, Marxist (born 1879)
- William Robertson, industrialist (born 1856)
The Arts
- The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society is founded by Jean Milligan and Ysobel Stewart.[4]
- John Buchan's novel Midwinter is published.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Walker, David Pat (2011). The BBC in Scotland: the first 50 years. Edinburgh: Luath. ISBN 1-908373-00-8.
- ↑ Booth, Gavin (1988). Edinburgh's Trams & Buses. Ratho: Bus Enthusiast Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 0-946265-09-7.
- ↑ The church publishes a booklet entitled The Menace of the Irish Race to Our Scottish Nationality. Goring, Rosemary, ed. (2014). Scotland: the autobiography (New ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 308–11. ISBN 978-0-241-96916-8.
- ↑ Knight, Peter, ed. (1996). Scottish Country Dancing. Collins. ISBN 0-00-472500-X.
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