1910 in Scotland

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1910
in
Scotland

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See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1910 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1909–10 • 1910–11

Events from the year 1910 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

Law officers

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  • Lord Advocate – Alexander Ure
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Arthur Dewar; then William Hunter

Judiciary

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  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

Events

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  • June – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
  • 6–13 August – First Scottish International Aviation Meeting held at Lanark.[1]
  • 17 September – Andrew Blain Baird makes the first powered monoplane flight in Scotland, at Ettrick Bay on the Isle of Bute in a self-built machine.[2]
  • 19 December – Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow opened
  • The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith.

Births

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  • 6 May – Jerry Morris, epidemiologist (died 2009)[3]
  • 10 March – Jane Duncan, born Elizabeth Jane Cameron, novelist (died 1976)
  • 17 March – Molly Weir, actress (died 2004 in London)
  • 19 April – Andrew Gilchrist, Special Operations Executive operative, and later ambassador (died 1993)
  • 23 April – Sheila Scott Macintyre, mathematician (died 1960)
  • 15 July – George Friel, novelist (died 1975)
  • 1 September – Charles Maxwell, radio producer (died 1998)
  • 14 November – Norman MacCaig, poet (died 1996)[4]
  • December – Ian Donald, physician, pioneer in the use of Medical ultrasonography (died 1987)

Deaths

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  • 18 January – James Cuthbertson, Scottish-Australian poet and schoolteacher (born 1851)
  • 2 April – William McTaggart, landscape and marine painter (born 1835)
  • 6 April – John McLaren, Lord McLaren, Liberal politician (born 1831)
  • 13 April – William Quiller Orchardson, portraitist and painter (born 1832)
  • 15 April – John Smith, dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator (born 1825)
  • 10 May – William Gordon Stables, naval physician and novelist (born 1840)
  • 23 June – Robert Boog Watson, malacologist and Free Church minister (born 1823)

See also

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  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1910 in Ireland

References

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  1. ^ "PB244 – Programme for The Scottish International Aviation Meeting, Lanark, 1910". Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  2. ^ "First all-Scottish heavier-than-air powered flight". 2010. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  3. ^ Ashton, J. R. (2000). "Professor J N "Jerry" Morris". Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 54: 881a. doi:10.1136/jech.54.12.881a. PMC 1731598. PMID 11076980.
  4. ^ Calder, Angus (25 January 1996). "Obituary: Norman MacCaig". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
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