1932 in Scotland

Events from the year 1932 in Scotland.

Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt until 28 September; then Sir Godfrey Collins

Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Craigie Mason Aitchison
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Wilfrid Normand

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

* 26 May – the Scots law case of ''Donoghue v Stevenson'' is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.
* 26 September – first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.
* 16 November – a colliery explosion at Cardowan kills 11 miners.
* Wendy Wood leads a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, at this time an Army barracks as well as a heritage attraction, to tear down the Union flag and replace it with a Scottish standard.
* Finnieston Crane begins operation.
* Etive Bridge, Stirling, built.
* A flock of Soay sheep is translocated from Soay to Hirta (also in the depopulated St Kilda archipelago) by conservationist John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute.
* Edinburgh Synagogue was opened

Births

* 4 January – Dick Douglas, Labour, later SNP, Member of Parliament (died 2014)
* 19 January – George MacBeth, poet and novelist (died 1992 in Ireland)
* 20 February – Tom Patey, mountaineer (died in climbing accident 1970)
* 24 February – Ian McNeill, footballer (died 2017)
* 12 March – Rory McEwen, artist and musician (died 1982 in London)
* 21 March – Thomas Welsh Watson, stage, television and film actor (died 2001)
* 11 April – James Morrison, painter (died 2020)
* 4 May – Sandy MacAra, epidemiologist (died 2012 in England)
* 8 May – Phyllida Law, actress
* 15 May – Joseph Beltrami, defence lawyer (died 2015)
* 2 June
** Tom Nairn, political theorist and academic
** Jim Petrie, comic artist (died 2014)
* 5 June – Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, classical scholar (died 1981)
* 8 June – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, lawyer and judge
* 1 July – Donny MacLeod, television presenter (died 1984)
* 9 July – Jimmy Reid, trade unionist (died 2010)
* 20 July – Iain MacKintosh, singer and songwriter (died 2006)
* 9 August – Tam Dalyell, Labour Member of Parliament (died 2017)
* 13 August – John Bannerman, historian of Gaelic Scotland (died 2008)
* 3 October – Tommy Preston, footballer (died 2015)
* 11 October – Billie Anthony, born Philomena Levy, singer (died 1991 in London)
* 28 October – Ewen Fergusson, Scotland international rugby union player and diplomat (died 2017)
* 25 November – Maureen Swanson, actress, Countess of Dudley (died 2011)

Deaths

* 8 January – William Graham, Scottish politician (born 1887)
* 25 January – James Paterson, painter (born 1854)
* 11 February – Robert Gibb, painter (born 1845)
* 31 March – Thomas David Anderson, amateur astronomer (born 1853)
* 14 April – Cynicus (Martin Anderson), satirical cartoonist and postcard publisher (born 1854)
* 8 July – John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, Sheriff 1900–20, Senator of the College of Justice 1930–28 (born 1857)
* 16 September – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (born 1860)
* William Gillies, nationalist (born 1865)

The arts

* Jenny Brown's short documentary film ''Da Makkin' O' A Keshie'' is made.
* Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel '' Sunset Song'', first of his ''A Scots Quair'' trilogy, is published.
* Fionn MacColla's novel ''The Albannach'' is published.

See also

* Timeline of Scottish history
* 1932 in Northern Ireland

References

{{Years in Scotland

Scotland
Years of the 20th century in Scotland
1930s in Scotland