1942 In Scotland

Events from the year 1942 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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

Law officers

* Lord Advocate – James Reid
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

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

* 19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers.
* April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig.
* 28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire.
* 15 May – arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard.
* July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island.
* 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.
* Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.

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)
* 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

References

{{Years in Scotland

Years of the 20th century in Scotland
Scotland
1940s in Scotland