# 1943 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1943 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – James Reid
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

### Judiciary

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

## Events

* 11 February – At the Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, the radical socialist Common Wealth Party candidate Tom Wintringham comes close to winning the seat (which is held for the Unionist Party by Sir David King Murray).
* 24 February – Royal Navy submarine HMS Vandal is lost with all 37 crew on sea trials in the Sound of Bute; she would not be located until 1994.
* 27 March – Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Dasher (D37) is destroyed by an accidental explosion in the Firth of Clyde, killing 379 of the crew of 528.
* 21 April – "Big Blitz" bombing of Aberdeen.
* 30 May – Royal Navy submarine HMS Untamed (P58) is lost with all hands on a training exercise in the Firth of Clyde.
* 19 June – Jackie Paterson wins the world flyweight boxing title by a knockout in the first minute at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
* 5 August – North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board established by Act of Parliament (with headquarters in Edinburgh).
* 11 November – Total evacuation of an area near Portmahomack in Easter Ross begins, to make way for rehearsal of the Normandy Landings.
* 2 December – Broughty Ferry pigeon Winkie, serving with the Royal Air Force, is among the first recipients of the Dickin Medal, instituted to honour the work of animals in war.
* The last crofting family leaves the island of South Rona.
* Ferranti open a plant at Crewe Toll in Edinburgh, originally to manufacture gyro gunsights for aircraft.

## Births

* 23 January – Ernie Hannigan, footballer (died 2015 in Australia)
* 31 January – Peter McRobbie, screen actor in the United States
* 18 February – Graeme Garden, author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, one of The Goodies
* 1 March – Witold Rybczynski, Canadian American architect, born in Edinburgh
* 3 April – John Hughes, footballer (died 2022))
* 16 April – Morris Stevenson, footballer (died 2014)
* 19 April – Margo MacDonald, politician (died 2014)
* 1 May – Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group (died 1998)
* 5 May – Kay Ullrich, politician (died 2021)
* 10 May – Jack Bruce, rock musician (died 2014)
* 22 June – J. Michael Kosterlitz, Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
* 16 July – Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins, comedy writer
* 18 July – Robin MacDonald, pop guitarist (died 2015)
* 20 August – Sylvester McCoy, born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith, actor
* 16 October – Tommy Gemmell, footballer (died 2017)
* 24 November – Robin Williamson, acoustic musician
* 28 November – George T. Miller, film director (died 2023 in Australia)
* Alan Bold, poet and biographer (died 1998)
* G. C. Peden, historian
* D. R. Thorpe, biographer

## Deaths

* 17 June – Annie S. Swan, novelist (born 1859)
* 8 September - Anderson Gray McKendrick, military physician and epidemiologist, (born 1876)
* 15 October – William Soutar, poet (born 1898)
* 23 December – George Henry, painter (born 1858)
* Ann Scott-Moncrieff, author (born 1914)

## The arts

* November – Sorley MacLean's first collection of Gaelic poems, Dàin do Eimhir agus Dàin Eile, is published.
* Glasgow Citizens Theatre founded.
* Poetry Scotland magazine founded in Glasgow by Maurice Lindsay.