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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in Scotland Events from the year 1943 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
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 Шаблон:HMS is lost with all 37 crew on sea trials in the Sound of Bute; she would not be located until 1994.[1][2]
- 27 March – Royal Navy escort carrier Шаблон:HMS 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.[3]
- 30 May – Royal Navy submarine Шаблон:HMS 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.[4]
- 5 August – North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board established by Act of Parliament[5] (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.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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)[8]
- 1 May – Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist, founder of the Scottish Minorities Group (died 1998)[9]
- 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.
See also
References
