1928 in Scotland

← 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1928 in Scotland → 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
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See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1928 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1927–28 • 1928–29

Events from the year 1928 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Munro MacRobert

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

Events

• 11 February – formation of the National Party of Scotland, a predecessor the Scottish National Party. On 23 June it holds a demonstration at Stirling marking the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.^[1]
• 31 March – the Scotland national football team defeat England 5–1 at Wembley Stadium.^[1]
• 28 April – June: Motorcycle speedway racing staged at Celtic Park.^[2]
• May
  • The Scottish county of Forfarshire resolves to revert to its historic name of Angus.^[3]
  • Carntyne Stadium in Glasgow opened for greyhound racing. Dirt track motorcycle speedway is also staged here, as is the first Scottish Greyhound Derby.
• 1 May – the London and North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman steam-hauled express train begins to run non-stop over the 393 miles (632 km) of the East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley.^[4]
• 18 June – transatlantic liner SS Duchess of Richmond is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank for Canadian Pacific Steamships.
• 3 July – inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow.^[5]
• 20 July – Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal overturns Oscar Slater's 1909 murder conviction.
• 26 August – in Paisley, May Donoghue finds the remains of a snail in her ginger beer, leading to the landmark negligence case Donoghue v. Stevenson.^[6]
• 25 October – a passenger express runs into the rear of a derailed freight train near Dinwoodie railway station with 4 deaths.^[7]
• Grampian hydroelectricity scheme initiated.^[8]
• First high-voltage electricity pylon for the UK National Grid is erected near Edinburgh.^[9]
• Reconstruction of Paisley Abbey completed.
• Politics of Edinburgh: Progressives form a group on the local council.

Births

• 1 January – Iain Crichton Smith, poet (died 1998)
• 17 January – Matt McGinn, folk singer (died 1977)
• 29 February – Irene Sunters, actress (died 2005)
• 10 March – Alex McAvoy, actor (died 2005)
• 11 March – Sandy Mactaggart, Scottish-Canadian educator and philanthropist (died 2017)
• 4 April – Jimmy Logan, born James Allan Short, entertainer (died 2001)
• 24 April – Tommy Docherty, footballer and manager (died 2020 in England)
• 7 April – Gael Turnbull, poet (died 2004)
• 11 April – Duncan Williamson, storyteller and singer (died 2007)
• 22 May – John Mackenzie, film director (died 2011)
• 27 May – Thea Musgrave, classical composer
• 2 June – Calum Kennedy, singer (died 2006)^[10]
• 5 June – James Kennaway, novelist and screenwriter (died 1968 in England)
• 29 June – Ian Bannen, actor (died 1999)^[11]
• 16 July – Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor (died 1991 in Ireland)
• 8 August – Peter Keenan, boxer (died 2000)
• 21 September – Con Devitt, Scottish-born New Zealand trade unionist (died 2014)
• 6 October – Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic (died 2015)^[12]
• 9 October – Joseph Brady, actor (died 2001 in London)
• 28 October – Lawrie Reilly, international footballer (died 2013)
• 7 December - Kay Matheson, Gaelic scholar and one of four students involved in the 1950 removal of the Stone of Scone (died 2021)^[13]
• 11 December – Andy MacMillan, architect (died 2014)
• 27 November – Sir Arnold Clark billionaire car dealer (died 2017)
• 28 December – Ian Steel, road racing cyclist (died 2015)
• John Maxwell Anderson, consultant surgeon (died 1982)

Deaths

• 2 January – Thomas McMillan, footballer (born 1866)
• 14 January – Andrew MacLeish, businessman (born 1838)
• January – Alexander Reid, art dealer (born 1854)
• 13 April – Charles Sims, painter (born 1873 in England; suicide)
• 26 May – John Burnet, classicist (born 1863)
• 28 May – Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon, Scottish surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, (born 1858)
• 26 August – Colin Campbell, film director (born 1859)^[14]
• 29 October – John Macintyre, laryngologist and pioneer radiographer (born 1857)
• 13 November – Alexander William Mair, academic (born 1875; house fire)^[15]
• 10 December – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and watercolourist (born 1868; died in London)
• 24 December – Thomas Corsan Morton, painter (born 1859)

The arts

• The Fife Miner Players begin to tour Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, concerning the effect of the 1926 United Kingdom general strike in the Fife Coalfield.
• Nan Shepherd's first novel The Quarry Wood is published.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1928 in Northern Ireland

References

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2. Inglis, Simon (1996). Football Grounds of Britain. London: CollinsWillow. p. 432. ISBN 0-00-218426-5.
3. "Forfarshire's New Name". The Times. No. 45032. London. 24 October 1928. p. 8. It was last May that the Forfarshire County Council passed a resolution...
4. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 369–370. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
5. The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
6. Chapman, Matthew (2010). The Snail and the Ginger Beer: the story of Donoghue v Stevenson. London: Wildy, Simmons & Hill. ISBN 0-85490-049-7.
7. "Accident at Dinwoodie - Wamphray on 25th October 1928". Railways Archive. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
8. Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 92.
9. Shaw, Alan (29 September 2005). "Kelvin to Weir, and on to GB SYS 2005" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
10. Wilson, Brian (21 April 2006). "Obituary: Calum Kennedy". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
11. "Ian Bannen". the Guardian. 5 November 1999. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
12. "Flora MacNeil obituary". The Guardian. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
13. "Obituary: Kay Matheson, teacher". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
14. Donald W. McCaffrey; Christopher P. Jacobs (1999). Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-0-313-30345-6.
15. John Venn (15 September 2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-108-03614-6.