1907 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1907 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
[edit]- 5 February – epidemic of meningitis in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast
- 24 April – Titan Clydebank crane first operates at John Brown & Company's shipyard
- 24 August – last horse trams in Edinburgh operate
- 18 September – Andrew Carnegie receives the freedom of Burntisland[1]
- New Ayr Racecourse opens
- Edinburgh College of Art gains its present name and site
- The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discovered[2]
- Scottish wildcat first scientifically classified[3]
- Limited Partnership Act regulates Scottish limited partnerships
Births
[edit]- 2 January – Robert Wilson, tenor (died 1964)
- 4 January – Walter Donaldson, snooker player (died 1973 in England)
- 28 January – Robert McLellan, playwright (died 1985)
- 4 February – James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter (died 1998)
- 16 April – Martin Boddey, film and television actor (died 1975 in London)
- 22 May – Huw Lorimer, sculptor (died 1993)
- 13 August – Sir Basil Spence, architect (died 1976 in Yaxley, Suffolk)
- 28 August – Tom Hanlin, novelist (died 1953)
- 2 October – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997 in England)[4]
- 7 October – Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist (died 1985 in the United States)
- 4 November – Ferguson Rodger, physician (died 1978)
- 5 December – William Barclay, Professor of Divinity (died 1978)
- 25 December – Andrew Cruickshank, actor (died 1988 in England)
- Jameson Clark, character actor (died 1984)
- Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent and historical novelist (died 2000)
- Betty Henderson, actress (died 1979)
Deaths
[edit]- 21 January – John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian (born 1829)
- 4 April – Alexander Macbain, philologist (born 1855)
- 13 May – Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist (born 1827)
- 19 July – William Gunion Rutherford, classicist (born 1853)
- 30 August – James Adam, classicist (born 1860)
- 6 October – David Masson, literary critic and historian (born 1822)
- 4 November – Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar (born 1837)
- 6 November – James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (born 1834)[5]
- 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist (born 1824 in Ireland)
- Jane Arthur, feminist and activist (born 1827)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Andrew Carnegie - Scottish connections". Scotcities.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ Peach, B. N.; et al. (1907). The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Scotland. Glasgow: H.M.S.O.
- ^ Miller, G. S. (1907). "L.—Some new European Insectivora and Carnivora". Journal of Natural History. 20 (119): 389–398. doi:10.1080/00222930709487354.
- ^ "Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd | British biochemist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ Dell, R.K. (1990). "Hector, James". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 October 2021.