1967 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1967 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Gordon Stott; then Henry Wilson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Wilson; then Ewan Stewart

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay

Events

• 7 February – Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh, designed by Spence, Glover & Ferguson (project architect: John 'Archie' Dewar), is dedicated.
• 9 March – Glasgow Pollok by-election: Conservatives take the seat from Labour despite a fall in support as the Scottish National Party gains 28% of the vote.
• 26 March – closure of Machrihanish Coalfield.^[1]
• April–June – the Scottish Region of British Railways withdraws its last steam locomotives.
• 28 April – Third Lanark A.C. plays its last football match.
• 25 May – Celtic F.C. become the first British and Northern European team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time with the winning goal being scored by Steve Chalmers in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 27 May – closure of the last route served by trolleybuses in Glasgow.
• 9 September – an underground fire at Michael Colliery in East Wemyss in the Fife Coalfield kills 9; more than 300 escape but the mine is closed.^[2]
• 20 September – the Queen Elizabeth 2, the largest ship ever built in Scotland and the last passenger ship built on the Clyde, is launched at John Brown & Company's yard at Clydebank.
• 2 November – Hamilton by-election: Winnie Ewing wins for the Scottish National Party, taking the seat from Labour.
• 13 November – University of Stirling chartered.
• 20 December – Scott Lithgow formed to merge the Clyde shipbuilding interests of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows.
• Deepwater pier on Coll opened.
• Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist–Leninist) formed.
• Scottish Civic Trust formed to promote protection and enhancement of the built environment.
• Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre established in Eskdalemuir.

Births

• January – King Creosote (Kenny Anderson), singer-songwriter
• 21 February – Neil Oliver, archaeologist and television presenter
• 11 March – John Barrowman, actor
• 8 June – Kathryn Imrie, golfer
• 15 August – Tony Hand, ice hockey player
• 23 August – Jim Murphy, Labour politician
• 26 August – Michael Gove, Conservative politician
• 26 October – Douglas Alexander, Labour politician
• 29 December – Carl Honoré, writer on current affairs
• Martin Boyce, sculptor
• Graeme Macrae Burnet, novelist
• Nathan Coley, installation artist

Deaths

• 3 January – Mary Garden, operatic soprano (born 1874)^[3]
• 23 March – Duncan Macrae, actor (born 1905)
• 3 August – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (born 1876)
• 13 August – Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, poet (born 1887)
• 6 September – Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (born 1904)
• Annie Maxton, Independent Labour politician

The Arts

• George Mackay Brown's first book of stories, A Calendar of Love, published

See also

• 1967 in Northern Ireland

Notes and References

1. Web site: D. M.. Seaman. Coal Mining in Kintyre. 2020-10-09.
2. Web site: Fire At Michael Colliery, Fife, 9th September, 1967. HealeyHero. Eric. Savage. 2020-10-09.
3. Web site: Mary Garden Opera Scotland . www.operascotland.org . 30 April 2020.