# 1938 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1938 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Walter Elliot until 16 May; then John Colville

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper
* Solicitor General for Scotland – 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, then Lord Murray

## Events

* 27 April – Second Division team East Fife F.C. uniquely win the Scottish Cup in Association football.
* 3 May – Empire Exhibition opens in Glasgow.
* 30 July – The Beano comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. of Dundee, goes on sale across the U.K.
* 27 September – RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Clydebank; she is the largest ship in the world at this time.
* Iona Community established by Rev. George MacLeod in Glasgow.
* English landowner David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, buys the island of Inch Kenneth.
* The Hermitage of Braid estate, adjacent to Blackford Hill, is gifted to the city of Edinburgh for recreational purposes by John McDougal.
* The Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is excavated by V. Gordon Childe.
* Broughton Place at Broughton in the Borders is built in the style of a traditional tower house by Basil Spence incorporating decorative reliefs by Hew Lorimer.
* Turner & Newall establish an asbestos cement plant at Dalmuir.
* Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes The Foundations of Scotland, the first of a 6-volume history.

## Births

* 2 January – Ian Brady, born Ian Duncan Stewart, serial killer (died 2017 in Ashworth Hospital)
* 16 February – Willie Hamilton, footballer (died 1976 in Canada)
* 7 March – Alan Cousin, footballer (died 2016)
* 31 March
** Ian Gray, comics scriptwriter (died 2007)
** David Steel, UK Liberal Member of Parliament and Liberal Democrat leader and 1st Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
* 16 April – Gordon Wilson, Scottish National Party leader (died 2017)
* 5 June – Moira Anderson, singer
* 18 June – Michael Sheard, character actor (died 2005)
* 27 June – David Hope, judge
* 7 June – Ian St John, footballer and manager (died 2021 in England)
* 28 July – Ian McCaskill, weatherman (died 2016)
* 13 September – John Smith, UK Labour Party leader (died 1994 in London)
* 14 September – Nicol Williamson, actor (died 2011)
* 20 October – Iain Macmillan, photographer (died 2006)
* 22 October – Alan Gilzean, footballer (died 2018)
* 25 November – Maria Fyfe, née O'Neill, politician (died 2020)
* 28 November – Frank Haffey, goalkeeper
* 16 December – Neil Connery, actor, younger brother of Sean Connery (died 2021)
* John Paisley, actor, working in China
* Roland Poska, graphic artist (died 2017 in the United States)

## Deaths

* 31 January – Sir James Crichton-Browne, psychiatrist (born 1840)
* 9 April – Moses McNeil, footballer, a founder of Rangers F.C. (born 1855)
* 11 April – David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1854)
* 25 April – Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1934–38 (born 1875)
* 29 April – James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, sculptor and poet (born 1856)
* 2 July – John James Burnet, architect (born 1857)
* 29 August – John Macdonald, sportsman and physician (died 1861)

## The arts

* Hugh S. Roberton writes the "Mingulay Boat Song".