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Events from the year 1936 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins until 29 October; then Walter Elliot
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Albert Russell until June; then James Reid
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison
- Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord MacGregor Mitchell
Events
- 27–31 January – The Combined Scottish Universities by-election sees former UK Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald returned to the House of Commons
- March – Scottish Ornithologists' Club founded
- 8 March – Cartoon characters The Broons and Oor Wullie first appear in The Sunday Post
- 7 June – First outdoors radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC[1]
- 10 June – First timetabled service to Barra Airport, on Traigh Mhòr beach, offered by Northern & Scottish Airways[2]
- 23 September – Prince Albert and his wife, the Duchess of York, open a new wing of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary while his brother Edward VIII meets Wallis Simpson at Aberdeen railway station en route to Balmoral Castle[3]
- 29 October – Kincardine Bridge opened across the Firth of Forth
- November – Punjabi-born Dr. Jainti Dass Saggar becomes the first non-White local authority councillor in Scotland, being elected for the Labour Party in Dundee
- 20 November – The Maybury roadhouse opens on the outskirts of Edinburgh, a notable example of Art Deco by Paterson & Broom
Births
- 7 January – Hunter Davies, writer
- 10 February
- James Alexander Gordon, radio announcer (died 2014 in England)
- Euan MacKie, archaeologist and anthropologist (died 2020)
- 11 February – Sylvia Wishart, landscape artist (died 2008)
- 4 March – Jim Clark, motor racing driver (killed 1968 in motor racing accident at Hockenheimring, Germany)
- 26 March – John Malcolm, film and television actor (died 2008)
- 17 April – Rona Lightfoot, bagpiper and singer
- 24 April – Davie Sneddon, footballer (died 2020)
- 26 April – Pat Quinn, footballer (died 2020)
- 28 April – Kenneth White, poet, academic and writer (died 2023)
- 5 May – John Maxton, politician
- 8 May – George Mulhall, footballer (died 2018 in England)
- 17 May – James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane, businessman and politician (died 2020)
- 27 May – Eric Anderson, born William Kinloch Anderson, educator, Provost of Eton College (died 2020)
- 10 June – Marion Chesney, novelist (died 2019)
- 25 June – Roy Williamson, folk musician (died 1990)
- 26 June – Robert Maclennan, Liberal Democrat politician (died 2020)
- 27 June – Robin Hall, folk singer (died 1998)
- 5 July – James Mirrlees, economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (died 2018 in England)
- 9 July – Richard Wilson, actor[4]
- 18 September – Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1987)
- 6 October – Sandra Voe, actress
- 21 November – James A. Mackay, writer and philatelist (died 2007)
- 25 November – William McIlvanney, novelist, short story writer and poet (died 2015)
- 1 December – Crawford Fairbrother, high jumper (died 1986)
- 2 December – Eileen McCallum actress
- 26 December – Tormod MacGill-Eain, Scottish Gaelic comedian, novelist, poet, musician and broadcaster (died 2017)
- Stewart Conn, poet and playwright
- Brian Quinn, economist and Chairman of Celtic F.C.
Deaths
- 6 February – Charles Bellany Thomson, international footballer (born 1878)
- 23 February – William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1917–1921) and Secretary of State for Scotland in 1924 and 1929-1931 (born 1863)
- 2 March – Donald Alexander Mackenzie, journalist and folklorist (born 1873)
- 20 March – Cunninghame Graham, politician (first president of the Scottish National Party), adventurer and writer (born 1852; died in Argentina)
- 9 April – William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, industrialist (born 1856)
- 25 May – Sir Robert Sangster Rait, historian, Historiographer Royal (born 1874)
- 4 November – John Henry Lorimer portrait and genre painter (born 1856)
- 22 November – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, soldier and clan chief (born 1835)
- 2 December – Dugald Christie, missionary in China, founder of the Shengjing Clinic and Mukden Medical College (born 1885)
- Joseph Morris Henderson, Glaswegian landscape, portrait, genre and coastal scenery oil and watercolour painter (born 1863)
The arts
- Edwin Muir publishes Scott and Scotland.
See also
References
- ^ Walker, David Pat (2011). The BBC in Scotland: the first 50 years. Edinburgh: Luath. p. 106. ISBN 1-908373-00-8.
- ^ Calderwood, Roy (1999). Times subject to Tides: The Story of Barra Airport. Erskine: Kea Publishing. ISBN 0-9518958-3-4.
- ^ The Salt Lake Tribune 24 September 1936 p.14.
- ^ "Richard Wilson". BFI. Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2020.