# 1958 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1958 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Maclay

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan
* Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson
* Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

## Events

* 13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Conservatives
* May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality
* 3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways last operate, leaving Glasgow as the only system in Scotland
* 20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured
* 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow
* 4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts
* 11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders
* 18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued
* 1 September – first of the 'Cod Wars' between the U.K. and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out
* 15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line
* 19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal
* October – Thurso High School opened
* 21 November – construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins
* 5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the U.K. telephone network when The Queen dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost
* 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time
* Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison

## Births

* 30 January – Derek White, rugby player
* 9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer
* 22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor
* 27 March – Peter Howson, figurative painter, war artist
* 14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor
* 25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
* 26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver (died 2021)
* 3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter
* 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer
* 2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress
* 17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker
* 30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster
* 20 September – Maureen Baker, physician
* 27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer
* Christina McAnea, trade union leader
* Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist
* James Robertson, novelist
* Adrian Wiszniewski, figurative painter

## Deaths

* 8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888)
* 29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861)
* 2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875)
* 3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872)
* 19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)

## The arts

* 7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968