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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Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
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)
^Calder, Angus (25 January 1996). "Obituary: Norman MacCaig". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2014.