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List of events
Events from the year 1908 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
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20 January –
Ian Peebles, cricketer (died
1980)
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28 January –
Jimmy Shand, accordionist and bandleader (died
2000)
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2 February –
J. K. Annand, poet and founding editor of
Lallans magazine (died
1993)
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15 April –
Denis Devlin, Irish modernist poet and diplomat (died
1959 in Ireland)
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22 April –
Leonard Schapiro, scholar of Russian politics (died 1983 in London)
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27 April –
Mary Docherty, Communist activist (died
2000)
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23 May –
Duncan Black, economist (died 1991 in
Paignton)
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5 June –
Bill Fraser, stage and screen actor (died 1987 in
Hertfordshire)
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7 June –
Thomas Cook, Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for constituencies in Dundee 1945–52; died
1952)
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10 June –
Russell Waters, stage and screen actor (died 1982 in London)
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12 June –
Ronnie Selby Wright, Church of Scotland minister (died
1995)
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23 August –
Hannah Frank, visual artist (died
2008)
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24 August –
Ian Garrow, army officer (died
1976)
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19 October –
Sydney MacEwan, singer and priest (died
1991)
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28 October –
Angus MacVicar, writer (died
2001)
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Jeannie Robertson, folk singer (died
1975)
Deaths
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25 January –
Sir Thomas McCall Anderson, professor of practice of medicine (born
1836)
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30 January –
James Bell Pettigrew, naturalist and museum curator (born
1834)
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22 March –
John William Crombie, Liberal MP for
Kincardineshire (1892–1908)
[7](born
1858)
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24 March –
Sir James David Marwick, lawyer, historian and town clerk (born
1826)
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13 May –
Louisa Stevenson, campaigner for women's rights (born
1835)
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7 June –
William Lithgow, shipbuilder (born
1854)
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25 October –
Lewis Campbell, classicist (born
1830)
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19 December –
Thomas Lomar Gray, engineer, noted for his pioneering work in seismology (born
1850)
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Joseph Henderson, artist (born
1832)
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John James Stevenson, architect (born
1831)
The arts
See also
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