1910 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1910 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Alexander Ure
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Arthur Dewar; then William Hunter

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

Events

• June – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
• 6–13 August – First Scottish International Aviation Meeting held at Lanark.^[1]
• 17 September – Andrew Blain Baird makes the first powered monoplane flight in Scotland, at Ettrick Bay on the Isle of Bute in a self-built machine.^[2]
• 19 December – Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow opened
• The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith.

Births

• 6 May – Jerry Morris, epidemiologist (died 2009)^[3]
• 10 March – Jane Duncan, born Elizabeth Jane Cameron, novelist (died 1976)
• 17 March – Molly Weir, actress (died 2004 in London)
• 19 April – Andrew Gilchrist, Special Operations Executive operative, and later ambassador (died 1993)
• 23 April – Sheila Scott Macintyre, mathematician (died 1960)
• 15 July – George Friel, novelist (died 1975)
• 1 September – Charles Maxwell, radio producer (died 1998)
• 14 November – Norman MacCaig, poet (died 1996)^[4]
• December – Ian Donald, physician, pioneer in the use of Medical ultrasonography (died 1987)

Deaths

• 18 January – James Cuthbertson, Scottish-Australian poet and schoolteacher (born 1851)
• 2 April – William McTaggart, landscape and marine painter (born 1835)
• 6 April – John McLaren, Lord McLaren, Liberal politician (born 1831)
• 13 April – William Quiller Orchardson, portraitist and painter (born 1832)
• 15 April – John Smith, dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator (born 1825)
• 10 May – William Gordon Stables, naval physician and novelist (born 1840)
• 23 June – Robert Boog Watson, malacologist and Free Church minister (born 1823)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1910 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Web site: PB244 – Programme for The Scottish International Aviation Meeting, Lanark, 1910. Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum. 2017-09-07. 2020-03-01.
2. Web site: First all-Scottish heavier-than-air powered flight. 2010. 2014-04-08. 25 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140225103159/http://www.bairdofbute.com/. dead.
3. Ashton. J. R.. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Professor J N "Jerry" Morris. 2000. 54. 881a. 10.1136/jech.54.12.881a. 1731598. 11076980.
4. News: Obituary: Norman MacCaig. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarynorman-maccaig-1325669.html . 1 May 2022 . subscription . live. Angus. Calder. Angus Calder. The Independent. London. 1996-01-25. 2014-02-21.