1923 in Scotland

1 January – Grouping of virtually all British railway companies. The Caledonian (from 1 July), Highland and Glasgow and South Western Railways are merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway; and the North British and Great North of Scotland Railways into the London and North Eastern Railway.
6 March – First BBC radio broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).^[1]
19 March – First BBC radio outside broadcast in Scotland, from the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.^[1]
23 March – Cutty Sark whisky blended.
29 May — The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland calls for curbs on the immigration of Irish Catholics following a Report laid before it earlier that same month.^[2]
24 June – Edinburgh Corporation Tramways completes conversion from cable to electric traction.^[3]
13 July — Margaret Kidd becomes the first female member of the Scottish bar.
12 August–8 November – Eallabus on Islay records 89 successive rain-days, a British record.^[4]
25 September – 40 coal miners are killed when the pit at Redding, Falkirk floods.^[5]
10 October
- First BBC radio broadcast from Aberdeen (station 2BD).^[1]
- Susan Newell (born 1893) undergoes judicial hanging at Duke Street Prison, Glasgow, for infanticide, the last woman to suffer capital punishment in Scotland (and the first for 70 years in Glasgow).
2 December – First BBC radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious address from Aberdeen.^[1]
6 December – United Kingdom general election. Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, is elected as Unionist Party MP for Kinross and Western Perthshire.

Births

15 January
- John Christopher Bartholomew, cartographer and geographer (died 2008)
- Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humorist (died 2006)^[6]
19 March – Bobby Brown, international football goalkeeper and manager (died 2020)
23 March – Roddy McMillan, actor and playwright (died 1979)
24 April – Cordelia Oliver, journalist, painter and art critic (died 2009)^[7]
15 May – James Gilbert, television producer (died 2016)
18 May – Willie McRae, Scottish National Party politician and lawyer (died 1985)
May – Pat Smythe, jazz pianist (died 1983 in London)
25 August – Dorothy Dunnett, historical novelist (died 2001)
9 September – Mitchell Downie, footballer (died 2001)
18 October – James Gowan, architect known for his post-modernist designs (died 2015 in London)
21 October – David Brand, Lord Brand, advocate, sheriff and Senator of the College of Justice (died 1996)
25 October – Bobby Thomson, professional baseball player (died 2010 in Savannah, Georgia)
26 October – Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, politician (died 2005)
14 December – Janet Brown, actress, comedienne and impressionist, famous for impersonations of Margaret Thatcher (died 2011 in Hove)
19 December – Gordon Jackson, screen actor (died 1990)

Incumbents

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

Births

Deaths

The arts

See also

References

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