1906 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1906 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1905–06 • 1906–07 |
Events from the year 1906 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Dunedin
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- 27 January — Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland is launched at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at Govan.
- 23 May — Boyd's Automatic tide signalling apparatus is inaugurated at Irvine, North Ayrshire.
- 7 June — Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank as the world's largest ship.
- 26 June — New Argyll Motor Works is opened for production of the Argyll car at Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire.
- 19 July — 1906 Dundee fire: a major fire breaks out in a bonded warehouse.
- 18 August — Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway opened to passengers.
- 28 December — Elliot Junction rail accident between Arbroath and Carnoustie railway stations kills 22.[1]
- Yarrow Shipbuilders begin their move from London to Scotstoun.
Births
- 4 March — Fionn MacColla, novelist connected to the Scottish Renaissance (died 1975)
- 13 March — Alex Massie, international footballer (died 1977)
- 22 June — Gilbert Highet, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian (died 1978 in the United States)
- 1 July — Ritchie Calder, socialist author, journalist and academic (died 1982)
- 18 July — Belle Stewart, née McGregor, traditional singer (died 1997)
- 29 July — Ian Gordon Lindsay, architect (died 1966)
- 30 September — J. I. M. Stewart, novelist and academic critic (died 1994)
- 12 December — Robert Matthew, modernist architect (died 1975)
- Molly Urquhart, actress (died 1977)
Deaths
- 15 May — James Blyth, electrical engineer (born 1839)
- 30 November — William Stewart Ross, writer and publisher (born 1844)
The Arts
- May — Stan Laurel makes his stage debut, at the Britannia Panopticon in Glasgow.
- 3 December — His Majesty's Theatre opens in Aberdeen.[2]
- Hugh S. Roberton forms the Glasgow Orpheus Choir.
See also
References
- ↑ Pringle, Maj. J. W. "Board of Trade Railway Department Inquiry into accident at Elliot Junction on 28th December 1906" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-05-24.
- ↑ Swan, Edi (2006). His Majesty's Theatre – One Hundred Years of Glorious Damnation. Black & White Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84502-102-3.
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