1942 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1942 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• Monarch – George VI
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Reid
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cooper
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

Events

• 19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers.[1]
• April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig.[2]
• 28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire.[3]
• 15 May – RMS Queen Mary arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard.[4]
• July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island.[5]
• 25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness.
• South Ford Bridge completed, connecting Benbecula to South Uist.[6]
• Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.[7]

Births

• 5 January – Henry John Burnett, murderer, last man hanged in Scotland (died 1963)
• 24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter
• 2 February – Roger Hynd, footballer (died 2017)
• 21 February – Magnus Linklater, journalist
• 22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat
• 24 February – Stuart Henry, disc jockey (died 1995 in Luxembourg)
• 27 February – Aimi MacDonald, actress and dancer
• 12 April – Bill Bryden, theatre director
• 28 April – Geoffrey Hosking, historian
• 8 May – Norman Lamont, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 14 May – Prentis Hancock, actor
• 24 May – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 7 June – Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet
• 18 June – John Bellany, painter (died 2013)
• 12 July – Tam White, actor and musician (died 2010)
• 8 August – Dennis Canavan, politician
• 12 August – Iain Blair, actor and author (using the pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England)
• 23 October – Douglas Dunn, poet and academic
• 16 November – Willie Carson, jockey
• 24 November – Billy Connolly, comedian
• 9 December – Billy Bremner, international footballer (died 1997)
• 10 December – Ann Gloag, born Ann Souter, entrepreneur
• 12 December – Morag Hood, actress (died 2002 London)
• 13 December – Hamish Wilson, actor
• 22 December - Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw, businessman
• 27 December – Mike Heron, psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band)
• Albert Watson, photographer

Deaths

• 2 March - Charles Usher, ophthalmologist from whom Usher Syndrome is named (born 1865)
• 3 March - George Adam Smith, theologian (born 1856 in Calcutta)
• 10 August – Bob Kelso, footballer (born 1865)
• 4 December – Hugh Malcolm, Royal Air Force officer, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1917; killed in action over Tunisia)
• Andrew Allan, lithographic artist (born 1863)

The arts

• Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1942 in Northern Ireland

References

1. Penrith, James; Penrith, Deborah (2007). Orkney & Shetland. The Scottish Islands (3rd ed.). Richmond, London: Crimson Publishing. ISBN 9781854583710.
2. "Bid to buy and restore war-time damaged Loch Arkaig forest". BBC News. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
3. "Spa Hospital Fire: £20,000 Strathpeffer outbreak". The Glasgow Herald. 29 April 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
4. "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
5. "Britain's 'Anthrax Island'". BBC. 25 July 2001. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
6. "South Ford Causeway". Stornoway: Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. 29 September 2013. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
7. "Monach". Lighhouse Library. Edinburgh: Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.