1923 in Scotland

← 1922 1921 1920 1919 1918 1923 in Scotland → 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
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See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1923 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1922–23 • 1923–24

Events from the year 1923 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Monarch — George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — The Viscount Novar

Law officers

• Lord Advocate — William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland — David Fleming; then Frederick Thomson

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Alness
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord St Vigeans

Events

• 1 January — Grouping of virtually all British railway companies. The Caledonian (from 1 July), Highland and Glasgow and South Western Railways are merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway; and the North British and Great North of Scotland Railways into the London and North Eastern Railway.
• 6 March — First BBC radio broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).^[1]
• 19 March — First BBC radio outside broadcast in Scotland, from the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.^[1]
• 23 March — Cutty Sark whisky blended.
• 24 June — Edinburgh Corporation Tramways completes conversion from cable to electric traction.^[2]
• 12 August–8 November — Eallabus on Islay records 89 successive rain-days, a British record.^[3]
• 10 October — First BBC radio broadcast from Aberdeen (station 2BD).^[1]
• 2 December — First BBC radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious address from Aberdeen.^[1]
• 6 December — United Kingdom general election. Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, is elected Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Kinross and Western Perthshire.
• The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland calls for curbs on the immigration of Irish Catholics.^[4]
• Margaret Kidd becomes the first female member of the Scottish [Bar association|bar]].
• First year of the Bullough Cup, a shinty competition

Births

• 15 January — Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humorist (died 2006)
• May — Pat Smythe, jazz pianist (died 1983 in London)
• 18 May — Willie MacRae, Scottish National Party politician and lawyer (died 1985)
• 9 September — Mitchell Downie, footballer (died 2001)
• 21 October — David Brand, Lord Brand, advocate, sheriff and Senator of the College of Justice (died 1996)
• 26 October — Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, politician (died 2005)
• 19 December — Gordon Jackson, actor (died 1990)

Deaths

• 27 March — James Dewar, chemist and physicist (born 1842)
• 4 May — William Robertson Nicoll, Free Church minister, journalist, editor and man of letters (born 1851)
• 4 June — Hume Nisbet, writer and artist (born 1849)
• 25 June — John Annan Bryce, businessman and Liberal politician (born 1841)
• 29 June — Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet, physician (born 1849)
• 26 September — Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, Conservative politician (born 1834)
• 28 September — William York Macgregor, landscape painter (born 1855)
• 30 November — John Maclean, Marxist (born 1879)
• William Robertson, industrialist (born 1856)

The Arts

• The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society is founded by Jean Milligan and Ysobel Stewart.^[5]
• John Buchan's novel Midwinter is published.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1923 in the United Kingdom

References

1. Walker, David Pat (2011). The BBC in Scotland: the first 50 years. Edinburgh: Luath. ISBN 1-908373-00-8.
2. Booth, Gavin (1988). Edinburgh's Trams & Buses. Ratho: Bus Enthusiast Publishing. p. 4. ISBN 0-946265-09-7.
3. Meteorological Office (1924). British Rainfall 1923 (PDF). London: HMSO. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
4. The church publishes a booklet entitled The Menace of the Irish Race to Our Scottish Nationality. Goring, Rosemary, ed. (2014). Scotland: the autobiography (New ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 308–11. ISBN 978-0-241-96916-8.
5. Knight, Peter, ed. (1996). Scottish Country Dancing. Collins. ISBN 0-00-472500-X.