# 1926 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1926 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt until post abolished 26 July
* Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal, from 15 July – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – William Watson
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Munro MacRobert

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
* Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

## Events

* 29 January – Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire by-elections: Conservatives retain the seats.
* 26 March – Bothwell by-election: Labour retains the seat.
* 3 – 12 May: 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Some violence in Glasgow.
* 26 November – launch, under the auspices of the Scots National League, of a new monthly Nationalist newspaper entitled The Scots Independent.
* Findhorn Bridge near Tomatin completed.
* First stage of Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme constructed.
* Scotland's only sugar beet processing plant is opened at Cupar.
* Sacramento River sternwheel paddle steamers Delta King and Delta Queen are shipped from William Denny and Brothers' yard at Dumbarton to California.
* The post of Secretary for Scotland upgraded to a full Secretary of State appointment

## Births

* 13 January – Craigie Aitchison, painter (died 2009)
* 17 January – Moira Shearer, ballet dancer (died 2006 in England)
* 11 February – Alexander Gibson, conductor and opera intendant (died 1995)
* 19 February – Charlie Cox, footballer (died 2008)
* 8 March – Edith MacArthur, actress (died 2018)
* 12 March – Gudrun Ure, actress (died 2024)
* 22 March – Alastair Reid, poet and scholar of South American literature (died 2014 in the United States)
* 1 April – William Macpherson, High Court judge and clan chief (died 2021)
* 3 April – Andrew Keir, actor (died 1997 in England)
* 22 April – James Stirling, architect (died 1992 in England)
* 24 May – Stanley Baxter, comic actor
* 31 May – Duncan Campbell, trumpet player (died 2013 in England)
* 2 July – Morag Beaton, dramatic soprano (died 2010 in Australia)
* 3 August – Rona Anderson, actress (died 2013 in England)
* 15 August – D. E. R. Watt, historian (died 2004)
* 4 September – George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of liquid crystal technology (died 2013)
* 12 September – Dave Valentine, international rugby player (died 1976)
* 17 October – Archie Duncan, historian (died 2017)
* 9 November – Johnny Beattie, comedian (died 2020)

## Deaths

* 2 January – John Gray McKendrick, physiologist, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow (born 1841)
* 3 February – Archibald White Maconochie, businessman and MP (born 1855)
* 4 April – John McTavish footballer (born 1885)
* 31 July – John McPherson, international footballer (born 1868)
* 4 September – Alexander Morison McAldowie, physician, folklorist and ornithologist (born 1852)

## The arts

* 22 November – Hugh MacDiarmid's Scots language poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is published.