1944 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1944 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Tom Johnston
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cooper
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson
Events
- Thomas Hubbard).[1]
- Battle of Normandy.
- September – Churchill Barriers on Orkney completed, together with the Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm.
- 9 November – The House of the Binns (near Linlithgow) becomes the first estate house given to the National Trust for Scotland(by Eleanor Dalyell).
- 12 November – World War II: sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz at Tromsø by Lancaster bombers of No. 9 and 617 Squadrons flying from RAF Lossiemouth.[2]
- 30 November – HMS Vanguard (23) is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank by the Princess Elizabeth. The Royal Navy's largest, fastest and last battleship, she was laid down in October 1941 and will be in commission from 1946 to 1960.[3]
- December – 97 Italians tunnel out of a prisoner-of-war camp at Doonfoot but are quickly recaptured.[4]
Births
- 23 January – John McCluskey, boxer (died 2015)
- 31 January – Robin Murray, psychiatrist
- 19 February – Ron Mathewson, jazz double bassist and bass guitarist (died 2020)
- 25 February – Campbell Armstrong (born Thomas Campbell Black), novelist (died 2013 in Ireland)
- 2 March – Stuart McGugan, actor
- 11 March – Graham Lyle, singer-songwriter
- 23 March – Maoilios Caimbeul(Myles Campbell) writer of poetry, prose and children's literature in Scottish Gaelic
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- 3 May – Carl Forgione, actor (died 1998 in England)
- 13 May – Vivien Heilbron, actress
- 17 May – Jimmy Boyle, sculptor, writer and murderer
- 5 June – Jim Brogan, footballer (died 2018)
- 3 July – Paul Young, actor
- 7 July – George Logan, entertainer (died 2023 in France)
- Green Investment Bank
- 11 August – Ian McDiarmid, actor
- 17 August – Bobby Murdoch, international footballer (died 2001)
- 22 August – Tom Leonard, poet (died 2018)
- 13 September – Leslie Harvey, rock guitarist (died 1972)
- 21 September – Susan Fleetwood, stage, film and television actress (died 1995 in England)
- 21 September – Christopher Harvie, historian and Scottish National Partypolitician
- 23 September – Eric Bogle, folk singer-songwriter in Australia
- 3 October – Harry Hood, footballer (died 2019)
- 17 November – Malcolm Bruce, Liberalpolitician
- 23 November – Christopher Rush, writer
- 28 November – James Smillie, actor and singer
- 12 December – Kenneth Cranham, actor
- 29 December – Gilbert Adair, novelist, poet, film critic and journalist (died 2011 in London)
- Alison Fell, poet and novelist
- Shena Mackay, novelist
Deaths
- John Watson, advocate and sheriff, Solicitor General for Scotland 1929–31 (born 1883; dies on train to Scotland)
- 29 February - Durward Lely, opera singer and actor (born 1852)
- 16 March – David Prain, botanist (born 1857)
- 23 June - J. Storer Clouston, author and historian (born 1870 in Cumberland)
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- 6 July - Alexander Lorne Campbell, architect (born 1871)
- 11 July – Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, shipbroker, Liberal politician and philanthropist (born 1851)
- 11 August – William Fife, yacht designer (born 1857)
- 16 August – Walter Robberds, Bishop of Brechin and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (born 1863 in the British Raj)
- 27 September – David Dougal Williams, painter (born 1888in England)
See also
References
- ^ "House of Commons". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. 28 March 2008. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "History". RAF Lossiemouth. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
- ISBN 0-907771-83-1.
- ^ "PoW Camp Summary WW II". Secret Scotland. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ Glanville, Brian (14 March 2006). "Obituary: Jimmy Johnstone". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2018.