1921 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1921 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Thomas Brash Morison
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles David Murray
Judiciary
- Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Dickson
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans
Events
- East Asiatic Company.[2]
- 1 April – airship R36 (G-FAAF) makes her maiden flight from William Beardmore and Company's works at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.
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- 7 May – the Scottish Union of Dock Labourerscalls a month-long strike in sympathy with coal miners.
- May – "Rona Raiders": a group of ex-servicemen from South Rona land on Raasay in an attempt to reoccupy their ancestral land. Although arrested and jailed they are ultimately successful in their campaign.
- 28 July – Church of Scotland Act 1921 given Royal Assent, recognising the Church's Articles Declaratory and thus its status as the national churchin Scotland but independent from the state in spiritual matters.
- 7 September – Prime Minister David Lloyd George (on holiday in Gairloch) summons a meeting of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom at Inverness Town House to discuss an independent Ireland's relationship with the British Empire.
- 8 October – SS Rowan sinks off the Rhins of Galloway after a double collision with the loss of at least 18 lives.[3]
- The Scottish county of Haddingtonshire is renamed East Lothian.
- Belted Galloway Association formed.
Births
- 4 March – John Ryan, cartoonist (died 2009 in England)
- 31 March – (in London) Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland, noblewoman (died 2019)
- 6 May – Elizabeth Sellars, actress (died 2019 in France)
- 5 August – Derick Thomson, Gaelic scholar and poet (died 2012)
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- 1 September – Bobby Flavell, footballer (died 2005)
- 30 September – Deborah Kerr, actress (died 2007 in England)[4]
- 11 October – Ann Henderson, sculptor (died 1976)
- 12 October – Logie Bruce Lockhart, journalist and rugby player (died 2020)
- 17 October – George Mackay Brown, poet (died 1996)
Deaths
- 15 February - Mary Cameron, painter, (born 1865)
- 10 March – John More Dick Peddie, architect (born 1853)
- 1 June – Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, architect (born 1834)
- 29 September - John Thomson, pioneering photographer, geographer, and traveler (born 1837)
- 23 October – John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (born 1840)
- 28 October – William Speirs Bruce, naturalist and Antarctic explorer (born 1867 in London)
- 12 December – Frances MacDonald, artist and designer (born 1873 in Staffordshire)
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-100236-6.
- ^ She is lost at sea around late December 1928. "KOBENHAVN Yard No 256". Leith Shipyards. The Loftsman. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ^ "SS Rowan [+1921]". Wrecksite. 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ^ Baxter, Brian (18 October 2007). "Obituary: Deborah Kerr". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2018.