1924 in Scotland explained
Events from the year 1924 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 29 January – Bobby Combe, international footballer (died 1991)
- 7 March – Eduardo Paolozzi, artist (died 2005 in London)
- 11 March – Anne Macaulay, musicologist, author and lecturer (died 1998)
- 20 March – James Barr, biblical scholar (died 2006 in Claremont, California)
- 28 March – Robert James, actor (died 2004 in England)
- 3 April – Murray Dickie, tenor opera singer and director (died 1995 in South Africa)
- 13 April – Sammy Cox, international footballer (died 2015 in Canada)
- 14 April – Robert Stewart, textile designer (died 1995)
- 15 April – Rikki Fulton, comedian (died 2004)
- 18 April – Buxton Orr, composer (died 1997)
- 20 May – Stan Paterson, glaciologist (died 2013 in Canada)
- 25 May – Gordon Smith, football player, the only player to win a Scottish league championship with three clubs, Hibernian, Heart of Midlothian and Dundee (died 2004)
- 1 June – Rev. Professor Alexander Campbell Cheyne, scholar of Church history (died 2006)
- 9 June – Peter Heatly, diver (died 2015)
- 14 June
- 17 June – Archibald Hall, serial killer and thief (died 2002 in HM Prison Kingston)
- 19 July – Sir James Fraser, surgeon (died 1997 in England)
- 15 September – Piers Mackesy, military historian (died 2014)
- 6 October – Margaret Fulton, cookery writer in Australia (died 2019)
Deaths
- 3 February – Major General William Burney Bannerman, military surgeon (born 1858)
- 6 February – Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask, whisky distiller (born 1877; suicide)
- 17 April – James Brown Craven, ecclesiastical historian (born 1850)
- 27 April – James Salmon, architect (born 1873)
- 22 June – William Macewen, pioneer in brain surgery (born 1837)
- 26 July – William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, ornithologist (born 1863)
- 4 September – Constance Gordon-Cumming, travel writer and painter (born 1848)
- 17 October – Hector C. Macpherson, writer and journalist (born 1851)
- 24 November – Peter Milne, missionary to the New Hebrides (born 1834)
- 31 December – James Gardiner, Liberal MP (born 1860)
- John Henderson, painter (born 1860)
The arts
- April – French-born critic Denis Saurat publishes "Le groupe de la Renaissance Écossaise" in Revue Anglo-Américaine bringing writers of the modern Scottish Renaissance to wider European notice.
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
- Book: Jonathan. Riddell. Nicolette. Tomkinson. This Is Your Way Sir. Harrow. Capital Transport. 2011. 978-1-85414-343-3. 20.
- Book: Hall, Stanley. The Railway Detectives. 1990. Ian Allan. London. 0-7110-1929-0. 84.
- Web site: Duncansby Head Lighthouse. The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses. 2014-07-23. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140727013128/http://lighthousemuseum.org.uk/galleries/named-d-f/duncansby-head-lighthouse/. 2014-07-27.