1942 in Scotland

Contents

• Incumbents
• Law officers
• Judiciary
• Events
• Births
• Deaths
• The arts
• See also
• References

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Events from the year 1942 in Scotland .

Incumbents

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

Events

• 19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers. ^[1]
• April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig. ^[2]
• 28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire. ^[3]
• 15 May – RMS Queen Mary arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard. ^[4]
• July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island. ^[5]
• 25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness.
• South Ford Bridge completed, connecting Benbecula to South Uist. ^[6]
• Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit. ^[7]

Births

• 5 January – Henry John Burnett, murderer, last man hanged in Scotland (died 1963)
• 24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter
• 2 February – Roger Hynd, footballer (died 2017)
• 21 February – Magnus Linklater, journalist
• 22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat
• 24 February – Stuart Henry, disc jockey (died 1995 in Luxembourg)
• 27 February – Aimi MacDonald, actress and dancer
• 12 April – Bill Bryden, theatre director
• 28 April – Geoffrey Hosking, historian
• 8 May – Norman Lamont, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 14 May – Prentis Hancock, actor
• 24 May – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 7 June – Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet (died 2022)
• 18 June – John Bellany, painter (died 2013) ^[8]
• 12 July – Tam White, actor and musician (died 2010)
• 8 August – Dennis Canavan, politician
• 12 August – Iain Blair, actor and author (using the pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England)
• 23 October – Douglas Dunn, poet and academic
• 16 November – Willie Carson, jockey
• 24 November – Billy Connolly, comedian
• 9 December – Billy Bremner, international footballer (died 1997)
• 10 December – Ann Gloag, born Ann Souter, entrepreneur
• 12 December – Morag Hood, actress (died 2002 London)
• 13 December – Hamish Wilson, actor
• 22 December – Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw, businessman
• 27 December – Mike Heron, psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band)
• Albert Watson, photographer

Deaths

• 2 March - Charles Usher, ophthalmologist from whom Usher Syndrome is named (born 1865)
• 3 March - George Adam Smith, theologian (born 1856 in Calcutta)
• 10 August – Bob Kelso, footballer (born 1865)
• 4 December – Hugh Malcolm, Royal Air Force officer, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1917; killed in action over Tunisia)
• Andrew Allan, lithographic artist (born 1863)

The arts

• Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1942 in Northern Ireland

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