1915 in Scotland

Events frae the year **1915 in [[Scotland]]**.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – George V
* Secretar for Scotland an Keeper o the Great Seal – Thomas McKinnon Wood

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Robert Munro
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Brash Morison

### Judiciary

* Lord President o the Coort o Session an Lord Justice General – Lord Strathclyde
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh, then Lord Dickson
* Chairman o the Scottish Land Court – Lord Kennedy

## Events

* 26 Januar – Ryal Navy ''King Edward VII''-class battleship HMS ''Britannia'' runs agroond on Inchkeith in the Firth o Forth an suffers conseederable damage.
* 19 Februar – Ryal Navy ''Acorn''-class destroyer  is wracked on Start Point, Sanday, Orkney.
* 10 Mairch – Warld War I: German submarine ''U-12'' is huntit doun bi Ryal Navy destroyers ,  an  aff the Firth o Forth an sunk wi the loss o 19 o her crew, 10 bein saved.
* 11 Mairch – Warld War I: Airmed merchantman  is sunk aff Gallowa bi German U-boat *[[SM U-27 (Germany)|SM U-27]]* wi the loss o aroond 200 o her crew, 26 bein saved.
* 18 Mairch – Warld War I: Ryal Navy battleship  sinks German submarine ''U-29'' wi aw hands in the Pentland Firth bi ramming her, the anely time this tactic is kent tae hae been successfully uised bi a battleship.
* Aprile – Glesga becomes the first U.K. ceety tae employ wummen conductors on public transport for the duration o the War.
* 25 Aprile – Warld War I: Gallipoli Campaign – Carnoustie-born seaman George Samson wins the Victoria Cross for his actions unner fire durin the landing at Cape Helles.
* 22 Mey – Quintinshill rail disaster naur Gretna Green: collision an fire kill 226, maistly Ryal Scots soldiers, the UK's lairgest nummer of fatalities in a railwey accident.
* 12 Juin – Warld War I: Oil tanker  is torpedoed an sunk bi German submarine ''U-17'' aff Munross.
* 23 Juin – Warld War I: Twa German submarines sink 17 vessels frae the Lerwick fishing fleet.
* 3 Julie – Warld War I: 15t (Scots) Infantry Diveesion receives embarkation orders for France.
* 25 September – Warld War I: Battle o Loos opens: Piper Daniel Laidlaw leads 7t Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers in the advance on the enemy trenches, an action for whit he is awarded the Victoria Cross.
* 27 September & 13 October – Warld War I: Tillicoultry-born seicond cousins James Dalgleish Pollock an James Lennox Dawson each win the Victoria Cross for their actions at the Battle o the Hohenzollern Redoubt (pairt o the Battle o Loos).
* 27 October – Warld War I: Glesga revolutionary socialist anti-war protestor John Maclean is arrested for the first time unner the Defence o the Realm Act an dismissed frae his job as a teacher.
* 8 November – Copinsay lichthoose in Orkney (engineer: D. Alan Stevenson) first illuminated.
* 27 November
** Government introduces legislation tae restrict hoosin rents tae their pre-war level following Glesga rent strikes led bi Mary Barbour.
** Auxiliary cruiser HMS ''Caribbean'' sinks aff Cape Wrath in a storm; 15 are killed.
* 10 December – Warld War I: Douglas Haig is appointed tae command the British Expeditionary Force.
* 30 December – Airmoured cruiser  capsizes at anchor in the Cromarty Firth as the result o an internal explosion in her ammunition stores; 390 sailors an some civeelians are killed.
* Warld War I – Khaki Balmoral bonnet, kent as the tam o' shanter, introduced for wear bi Scots troops in the trenches o the Western Front.

## Births

* 21 Februar – John Brown, international footballer (deed 2005)
* 29 Mairch – George Chisholm, jazz trombonist (deed 1997 in London)
* 8 Mey – John George Macleod, doctor o medicine an a writer o medical textbooks (deed 2006)
* 6 September – Calum Maclean, folklorist (deed 1960)
* 27 October – Robert Alexander Rankin, mathematician (died 2001)
* 6 November – David I. Masson, science-fiction writer an librarian (deed 1979 in Leeds)
* 8 November – George Sutherland Fraser, poet an creetic (deed 1980 in Leicester)
* 15 November – David Stirling, mountaineer, Warld War II British Airmy officer, an the foonder o the Special Air Service (deed 1990)
* 17 December – Stuart Hood novelist, translator, televeesion producer an Controller o BBC Television (deed 2011)
* 31 December – Neil Paterson, writer an fitbawer (deed 1995)
* George Campbell Hay, poet (deed 1984)
* Ernest Marwick, writer noted for his writings on Orkney fowklore an heestory (deed 1977)

## Deiths

* 13 Januar – Mary Slessor, missionary (born 1848; deed in Nigerie)
* 19 Aprile – Sir Thomas Clouston, psychiatrist (born 1840)
* 23 Aprile – Robert W. Sterling, poet (born 1893; killed in action)
* 8 Mey – Walter Lyon, lawyer an war poet (born 1886; missing in action)
* 7 Julie – Samuel Cockburn, physician, practicing homeopathy  (born 1823)
* 26 September – Keir Hardie, socialist, first chairman o the Parliamentary Labour Party an pacifist (born 1856)
* 2 October – Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, British Airmy officer an Unionist politeecian (born 1883; killed in action)
* 13 October – Charles Sorley, poet (born 1895; killed in action)
* 22 October – Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet, physicist (born 1831)
* Sir James Donaldson classical scholar, an educational an theological writer (born 1831)

## The airts

* August&#x2013;September – John Buchan's thriller *[[The Thirty-Nine Steps]]*, set lairgely in Gallowa immediately afore the ootbreik o war an introducing his hero Richard Hannay, is serialised in *[[Blackwood's Magazine]]* afore bein publeeshed in buik firm in October bi William Blackwood and Sons in Edinburgh.
* Violet Jacob's poetry collection *Songs of Angus* is publeeshed.
* Sculptor James Pittendrigh Macgillivray's poetry collection *Pro Patria* is publeeshed.

## See awso

* Timeline o Scots heestory
* 1915 in the Unitit Kinrick

## References