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
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord Dunedin
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- June – missionsmovement.
- 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, Glasgowopened
- The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith.
Births
- 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)
- December – Medical ultrasonography (died 1987)
Deaths
- 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)
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See also
References
- ^ "PB244 – Programme for The Scottish International Aviation Meeting, Lanark, 1910". Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum. 7 September 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "First all-Scottish heavier-than-air powered flight". 2010. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
- PMID 11076980.
- ^ Calder, Angus (25 January 1996). "Obituary: Norman MacCaig". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2014.