1927 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1927 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Munro MacRobert

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

Events

• 28–30 January – gale-force winds batter the British Isles, with a gust of recorded in Paisley and 23 killed.^[1]
• 23 March – Leith by-election: Liberals hold seat.
• 16 April – the Scottish Cup Final is broadcast live on radio for the first time. Celtic F.C. beat East Fife 3–1.^[2]
• 12 July – official opening in Glasgow of the new Kelvin Hall exhibition venue and George V Bridge.^[3]
• 14 July – the Scottish National War Memorial is opened at Edinburgh Castle (architect: Robert Lorimer).
• 26 September – David MacBrayne's paddle steamer Grenadier (1885) catches fire and sinks at her overnight mooring in Oban with the loss of three crew.^[2]
• October – a school of pilot whales runs aground in the bay between Bonar Bridge and Ardgay.^[4]
• Undated
  • The Gillespie, Kidd & Coia architectural practice in Glasgow assumes this name.
  • Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association formed.
  • The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary, revised edition.

Births

• 24 January – Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, lieutenant (died 2007)
• 16 February – Pearse Hutchinson, poet, broadcaster and translator (died 2012 in Ireland)
• 23 February – Willie Ormond, international footballer and manager (died 1984)
• 27 February – Jimmy Halliday, Scottish National Party leader (died 2013)
• 5 March – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, politician (died 2023)
• 5 April – Colin Young, film educator (died 2021)
• 6 April – Nancy Riach, swimmer (died at 1947 European Aquatics Championships in Monte Carlo)
• 12 April – Patrick Meehan, criminal, victim of a miscarriage of justice (died 1994 in Swansea)
• 23 June – Kenneth McKellar, tenor (died 2010)
• 29 June – Tom Fleming, actor, director, poet and broadcast commentator (died 2010)
• 2 July – James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Chancellor
• 1 October – Sandy Gall, television journalist (born in Penang)
• 5 October – Bruce Millan, Labour Secretary of State for Scotland (died 2013)
• 7 October – R. D. Laing, psychiatrist (died 1989 in Saint-Tropez)
• 10 October – Thomas Wilson, composer (died 2001)
• 31 October – Charles Cameron, bizarre magician (died 2001)
• 7 November – Melissa Stribling, film and television actress (died 1992 in Watford)
• 27 November – Arnold Clark, businessman (died 2017)
• 24 December – John Glashan, born McGlashan, cartoonist (died 1999)
• Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect (died 2023)

Deaths

• 16 January – Haldane Burgess historian, poet, novelist, violinist, linguist and socialist, a noted figure in Shetland's cultural history (born 1862)^[5]
• 16 March – Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, civil servant, writer and Unionist politician (born 1846; died in London)
• 17 March – James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer (born 1843)
• 26 June – Thomas P. Marwick, architect (born 1854)
• 8 July – Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll, soldier and Conservative politician (born 1852)
• 21 July – William Campbell, Lord Skerrington, judge (born 1855)
• September – John George Govan businessman and evangelist, founder of The Faith Mission in 1886 (born 1861)
• 10 November – James Thomson, City Engineer, City Architect and Housing Director of Dundee (born 1852)

The arts

• 15 September – Green's Playhouse opens in Glasgow, the largest cinema in Europe at this date.^[6]
• Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, showing the effect of the General Strike on the Fife coal mining community, is first performed; and his The Image o' God and Other Poems is published.
• Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland formed.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1927 in Northern Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Lamb, Hubert. Historic storms of the North Sea, British Isles and Northwest Europe. 1991. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-37522-1.
2. Web site: The Flag in the Wind . Notable Dates in History . . 2014-07-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm . 23 May 2014 .
3. News: Court Circular. The Times. London. 1927-07-13. 19. 44632.
4. Web site: Whales at Bonar Bridge. Tain Through Time. Tain Museum Image Library. 2004-02-26. 2014-08-11. 12 August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812213532/http://www.tainmuseum.org.uk/imagelibrary/picture/number51.asp. dead.
5. Book: Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period .... 1929. A. & C. Black. 148.
6. Web site: Green's Playhouse / Apollo. Scottish Cinemas and Theatres. 2021-02-11.