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List of events
Events from the year 1909 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
16 January –
Ellen King , Olympic swimmer (died 1994 in England)
20 January –
Olive Fraser , poet (died
1977 )
21 January –
James Hoy ,
Labour
Member of Parliament for
Leith 1945-1970 (died
1976 )
9 February –
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson , historian and
paleographer (died
2002 )
[6]
23 February –
Lavinia Derwent (real name Elizabeth Dodd), author and broadcaster (died
1989 )
[7]
24 February –
Ethel MacDonald ,
anarchist and publisher (died
1958 )
6 March –
Vagaland (real name Thomas Alexander Robertson),
Shetland dialect poet (died
1973 )
14 March –
William Montgomery Watt , historian and Emeritus Professor in
Arabic and
Islamic studies (died
2006 )
19 March –
Marjorie Linklater , campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (died
1997 )
[8]
27 April –
Muriel C. Bradbrook , literary scholar and authority on Shakespeare (died 1993 in Cambridge)
9 May –
Robert Garioch ,
Scots language poet (died
1981 )
26 May –
Matt Busby , football manager (died
1994 )
5 June –
Marion Crawford , Scottish educator and governess to Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth II (died
1988 )
[9]
19 June –
William Grant, Lord Grant , Unionist MP, Solicitor General, Lord Advocate, and
Lord Justice Clerk (died
1972 )
[10]
5 September –
Archie Jackson , Australian international cricketer (died
1933 in Australia )
23 November –
Nigel Tranter , historical writer (died
2000 )
2 December –
Helen Douglas Adam , poet, writer and dramatist (died 1993 in the United States)
[11]
Helena Gloag , actress (died
1973 )
Deaths
See also
Notes
References
^ Dart, James; Lutz, Tom (21 March 2007).
"Why no one won the Scottish Cup in 1909" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved 23 May 2013 .
^
Roughead, William (1910).
Trial of Oscar Slater .
^ Cameron, Dugald; Galbraith, Roderick; Thomson, Douglas (2003). From Pilcher to the planets: aspects of Glasgow and the West of Scotland's early contribution to aviation as seen against the history of flight and a view of the art of engineering . University of Glasgow.
ISBN
9780852167786 .
^
"Tragic tale of Hibs' James Main, who died of Christmas Day injury" .
The Scotsman . Edinburgh. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 28 February 2014 .
^
"Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson" (PDF) . Bird Study . 24 : 202–3. 1977.
doi :
10.1080/00063657709476557 .
^ Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes 2007, p. 13
^ Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes 2007, p. 97
^
"Marjorie Linklater" . The Independent . 4 July 1997.
Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2020 .
^ Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes 2007, pp. 99-100
^ Watt, George (20 November 1972).
"Lord Grant killed in car accident" .
Glasgow Herald . p. 1. Retrieved 12 January 2016 – via Google News.
^ Ewan, Innes, Reynolds and Pipes 2007, p. 4
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