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List of events
Events from the year 1937 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
3 February –
Alex Young , footballer (died
2017 )
10 February –
Anne Anderson , physiologist (died
1983 )
16 February –
Jimmy Frizzell , footballer and football manager (died
2016 )
6 April –
Angus Grossart , businessman (died
2022 )
8 April –
Claire Nielson , actress
18 April –
Teddy Taylor , Conservative politician (died
2017 )
28 April –
Jean Redpath , folk singer (died
2014 in the United States )
6 May –
Robin Fulton , poet and translator
7 July –
Sheila Stewart , folk singer (died
2014 )
21 August –
Donald Dewar , Labour politician and
First Minister of Scotland (died
2000 )
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24 August –
George Kerr judo expert
3 September –
Willie Bell , footballer (died 2023)
4 October –
Jim Sillars , politician
9 October –
Fiona Cumming ,
television director (died
2015 )
18 November –
Colette O'Neil , actress (died
2021 )
21 December
date unknown
Deaths
6 January –
Robert Urie , steam locomotive engineer (born
1854 )
21 February –
Wallace Lindsay , classical scholar (born
1858 )
23 February –
John Begg , architect, who practised in London, South Africa and India (born
1866 )
10 April –
Ernest Auldjo Jamieson , architect (born
1880 )
21 May –
Sir Alexander Grant, 1st Baronet , biscuit manufacturer and philanthropist (born
1864 )
19 June –
J. M. Barrie , author best remembered as the creator of
Peter Pan (born
1860 ; died in London)
28 July –
Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle , politician (born
1862 )
21 September –
Chrystal Macmillan , mathematician, suffragist, politician, barrister and pacifist (born
1872 )
30 October –
Sir Herbert Maxwell , novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist and Conservative politician (born
1845 )
8 November –
Alasdair Tayler , historical writer (born
1870 )
9 November –
Ramsay MacDonald , Labour politician and
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born
1866 ; died at sea)
6 December –
Francis Cadell ,
Colourist painter (born
1883 )
John Stevenson Rhind , sculptor (born
1859 )
The arts
See also
References
^
"Notable Dates in History" . The Flag in the Wind .
The Scots Independent . Archived from
the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014 .
^ Robertson, Forrest; Ross, David. The First 100 Years of Hampden . Glasgow: First Press Publishing. p. 72.
ISBN
1-901603-18-0 .
^ London & North Eastern Railway (1937).
The Coronation: the first streamline train, King's Cross for Scotland . Retrieved 20 August 2014 .
^
"The streamlined symbol of 1930s luxury" . York:
National Railway Museum . 1 May 2009. Archived from
the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014 .
^
"Ten Perish In Farm Fire Tragedy" . RTÉ Archives .
RTÉ . 1987. Retrieved 21 December 2021 .
^ McManus, John (28 October 2006),
"Jimmy McGrory" ,
The Scotsman , Lives and Times, retrieved 13 May 2013
^
"Accident at Castlecary on 10th December 1937" . Railways Archive . Retrieved 21 July 2014 .
^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland . Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 93.
^ MacAskill, Ewen (11 October 2000).
"Donald Dewar" . The Guardian .
Archived from the original on 9 May 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2023 .
^
"An expectant public: 1948–2008 - 60 years of the NHS" . Birth of NHS in Scotland . Scottish Government. 2008. Retrieved 14 November 2019 .
^ Marsden, Stevie (2016).
"The Saltire Society Literary Awards Test of Time" (PDF) . Edinburgh: Saltire Society. Retrieved 23 November 2020 .
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