1948 in Scotland explained
Events from the year 1948 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 8 January – Gillies MacKinnon, film director
- 11 January – Joe Harper, international footballer
- 3 February – Maev Alexander, television and stage actress
- 9 February – David Hayman, actor and director
- 24 February – Walter Smith, football manager (died 2021)
- 26 February – Malcolm MacDonald, classical music critic (died 2014 in England)
- 3 March – Rosemary Byrne, Scottish Socialist Party then Solidarity MSP (2003–2007)
- 7 March - Adam McLean, writer on alchemical texts
- 25 March – Lynn Faulds Wood, television consumer affairs presenter and health campaigner (died 2020 in England)
- 29 March – Marjorie Ritchie, animal researcher and animal surgeon, part of team who cloned Dolly the sheep (died 2015)
- 8 April – Barbara Young, public servant and Labour peer
- 20 April – Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll, colonel and politician, Lord High Constable of Scotland
- 28 April – Scott Fitzgerald, born William McPhail, singer and musical actor
- 11 May – Fiona Woolf, born Catherine Fiona Swain, lawyer and Lord Mayor of London
- 21 May – Denis MacShane, born Denis Matyjaszek, journalist and Labour Party MP
- 8 June – Lorna Heilbron, actress
- 10 June – Brian Adam, politician and biochemist (died 2013)[5]
- 15 June – Henry McLeish, footballer, Labour Party MP (1987–2001), MSP (1999–2001) and First Minister of Scotland (2000–2001)
- 19 June – David MacLennan, theatre actor and producer (died 2014)
- 20 June – Alan Longmuir, pop guitarist with the Bay City Rollers (died 2018)
- 18 July – Jim Watt, lightweight boxer
- 5 August – Gordon Jackson, Labour Party MSP (1999–2007) and lawyer
- 11 August – Don Boyd, film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist
- 24 October – Frank McPhee, gangland boss (died 2000)
- 3 November – Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, singer[6]
- 24 November – Barry Simmons, quiz player
- 29 November – David Rintoul, actor
- 8 December – Peter Blake, actor (died 2018)
- 13 December – Brian Wilson, Labour Party MP (1987–2005)
- 31 December – Sandy Jardine, international footballer and manager (died 2014)
- David Annand, sculptor
- James Cosmo, actor
- James Hunter, historian
- John Kay, economist
- Edward McGuire, composer
- Robert Mone, murderer
- John Lowrie Morrison, artist
- Janet Paisley, writer (died 2018)
- Tom Russell, rock disc jockey
Deaths
- 31 January – Oscar Slater, acquitted of murder (born 1872 in Silesia)
- 21 February – Frederic Lamond, classical pianist and composer, pupil of Franz Liszt (born 1868)
- 9 March - William J. Watson, toponymist (born 1865)
- 27 March - Douglas Ainslie, poet, translator, critic and diplomat (born 1865)
- 28 May – Unity Mitford, socialite and fascist (born 1914 in England)
- 1 June – David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans, Scottish advocate and judge, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1918–34 (born 1862)
- 21 June – D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (born 1860)
- 17 July – Joseph Westwood, Labour MP (1922–31, 1935-1948) (born 1884)
- 19 November – Charles Jarvis, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1881)
- 24 November - O. Douglas, novelist (born 1877)
The arts
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: The Lost Decade Timeline. BBC. 2007-09-25. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060821133044/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/lostdecade/timeline_html.shtml. 21 August 2006. dmy.
- At about 23:32 UTC. Web site: Accident description. Aviation Safety Network. 2014-11-18. Contemporary British reports, e.g. The Times newspaper (October 1948) and the Court of Investigation report (November 1949), cite the accident as occurring early on 21 October.
- Web site: Dame Margaret Henderson Kidd. On this day in Scotland. ianthepict. 2012-03-14. 2019-04-07.
- Web site: History of the State Hospital. PDF. NHS Scotland. January 2012. 2014-09-09. The terminology used in this section, describing patients and the bodies looking after them, is no longer used today.. https://web.archive.org/web/20140911001855/http://www.tsh.scot.nhs.uk/About_Us/docs/History%20of%20TSH%20-%20Jan%2012.pdf. 11 September 2014. dead. dmy-all.
- Web site: Obituary: Brian Adam MSP, politician and biochemist . www.scotsman.com . 25 April 2022 . en.
- Web site: Lulu's Musical Map Of Glasgow . www.bbc.co.uk . 8 March 2021.