1935 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1935 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Wilfrid Normand until April; then Douglas Jamieson until December; then Thomas Mackay Cooper
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Douglas Jamieson until April; vacant until May; then Thomas Mackay Cooper until December; then Albert Russell

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde until 1 April; then Lord Normand
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord MacGregor Mitchell

Events

• 31 March & 5 December – Glasgow Subway electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectively^[1]
• 16 May – Thomas Mackay Cooper becomes Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing Douglas Jamieson
• 22 June – Kerr's Miniature Railway at Arbroath opens for business^[2]
• 9 September – Glaswegian flyweight Benny Lynch becomes the first Scottish boxing world champion in a bout in Manchester^[3]
• mid–late September – Lancaster general practitioner Buck Ruxton disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near Moffat
• 23 October – a footbridge across the River Forth at Cambuskenneth replaces a ferry^[4]
• 2 November – Scottish-born thriller-writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada
• 14 November – UK General Election: The Communist Party of Great Britain candidate, Willie Gallacher, wins the constituency of West Fife^[5]
• 2 December – Albert Russell becomes Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing Thomas Mackay Cooper
• Edwin Muir publishes Scottish Journey

Births

• 5 February – Alex Harvey, glam rock musician (died 1982 in Belgium)
• 21 February – Mark McManus, film and television actor (died 1994)^[6]
• 2 March – Jackie Brown, boxer (died 2020)
• 4 March – Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
• 12 April – Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
• 5 May – Eddie Linden, poet and political activist
• 8 May – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, politician
• 9 May – Zander Wedderburn, psychologist (died 2017)
• 7 June – William Stewart, biologist and academic
• 16 July – Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament 1974–79 (died 2006)^[7]
• 10 August – John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
• 27 August – Eddie Connachan, goalkeeper (died 2021 in South Africa)
• 15 October – Richard McTaggart, boxer
• 23 October – Ewan Hooper, actor
• 22 November – Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014)
• 3 December – Robin Neillands writer specialising in travel and military history (died 2006)
• 26 December – Stevie Chalmers, footballer (died 2019)
• 31 December – Jeff Torrington, novelist (died 2008)
• Jack Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer (died 2013)
• Donald Forbes, criminal, "Scotland's most dangerous man" (died 2008)
• Hamish MacDonald, impressionist and colourist painter (died 2008)

Deaths

• 12 March – Malcolm Smith, Liberal Party politician and MP (born 1856)
• 16 March – John James Rickard Macleod, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1876)
• 22 April – Frederick Farrell, watercolourist, war artist (born 1882)
• 28 April – Sir Alexander Mackenzie, composer (born 1847)
• 5 June – James Manson, mechanical engineer (born 1845)
• 22 June – George Brisbane Scott Douglas, poet and writer (born 1856 in Gibraltar)
• 27 September – William W. Naismith, mountaineer (born 1856)
• 11 October – Samuel Peploe, painter (born 1871)
• 16 October – Margaret Moyes Black, novelist and biographer (born 1853)
• 22 November – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (born 1880)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1935 in Northern Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: John. Wright. Ian. Maclean. Circles Under the Clyde: a history of the Glasgow Underground. Harrow Weald. Capital Transport. 1997. 1-85414-190-2. 58–87.
2. Book: Little, Lawson. Kerr's Miniature Railway: Scotland's Oldest Small-Scale Line. Narrow Gauge Railway Society. 2000. The Narrow Gauge, no. 169. 0-9507169-9-5.
3. Web site: Boxing News – Fighter Bios – Benny Lynch – Former world flyweight champion. SecondsOut. 2014-05-24.
4. Web site: The Flag in the Wind: Notable Dates in History . The Scots Independent. 2014-07-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm . 23 May 2014 .
5. Web site: William Gallacher. Renfrewshire Council. 2014-06-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20130414070712/http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/webcontent/home/services/leisure+and+culture/heritage+and+local+history/els-jh-famouspeoplewilliamgallacher. 14 April 2013. dead.
6. Web site: Obituary: Mark McManus . The Independent . 27 November 2022 . en . 6 June 1994.
7. Web site: Wilson. Brian. Obituary: Douglas Henderson. The Guardian. 24 February 2018. en. 25 September 2006.