1930 in Scotland
1930 in Scotland |
Years |
1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 |
See also |
1929-30 in Scottish football |
1930-31 in Scottish football |
Events from 1930 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 10 April - Shetland ferry SS St. Sunniva runs aground on Mousa and is lost.
- 30 April - First section of the 132kV AC National Grid, the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, is switched on in Edinburgh.[1]
- 16 May - Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 comes into effect. Parish councils and Commissioners of Supply are dissolved and other local government units reconstituted, merged or abolished. In policy matters, the counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire, and of Moray and Nairnshire, are to act jointly.
- 11 June - Transatlantic liner RMS Empress of Britain is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company.
- 8 July - First official demonstration of the Bennie Railplane at Milngavie.
- 29 August - Remaining inhabitants of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago are voluntarily evacuated to Morvern on the mainland.[2]
- Formation of the Scottish Party by members of the Unionist Party favouring establishment of a Dominion Scottish Parliament.
- Rosemary Bank is discovered approximately 120 km west of Scotland by survey vessel HMS Rosemary.
Births
- 16 February - John Cairney, actor
- 5 March - Isla Cameron, actress and folk singer (died 1980)
- 10 March - Jimmie Macgregor, folk singer
- 25 July - Annie Ross, born Annabelle Allan Short, jazz singer (born in London)
- 21 August - Princess Margaret (died 2002)
- 25 August - Sean Connery, film actor
- 4 December - Ronnie Corbett, comic actor
Deaths
- 9 January - Hughie Ferguson, footballer, by suicide (born 1898)
- 12 May - John Wheatley, socialist politician (born 1869 in Ireland)
- 7 July - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author, in England (born 1859)
- 6 September - James Guthrie, painter (born 1859)
- 22 December - Neil Munro, writer (born 1863)
The Arts
- September 11 - English detective fiction writer Agatha Christie marries her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, in Edinburgh.
- Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns is published, attracting criticism for its frank portrayal of the poet's life.
- Nan Shepherd's novel The Weatherhouse is published.
See also
References
- ↑ Shaw, Alan (29 September 2005). "Kelvin to Weir, and on to GB SYS 2005" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
- ↑ "St Kilda". National Trust for Scotland. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
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