1932 in Scotland

Events

26 May – the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.^[1]
26 September – first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.^[2]^[3]
16 November – a colliery explosion at Cardowan kills 11 miners.^[4]
Wendy Wood leads a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, at this time an Army barracks as well as a heritage attraction, to tear down the Union flag and replace it with a Scottish standard.
Finnieston Crane begins operation.^[5]
Etive Bridge, Stirling, built.
A flock of Soay sheep is translocated from Soay to Hirta (also in the depopulated St Kilda archipelago) by conservationist John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute.
Edinburgh Synagogue is opened.

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4 January – Dick Douglas, Labour, later SNP, Member of Parliament (died 2014)
19 January – George MacBeth, poet and novelist (died 1992 in Ireland)
20 February – Tom Patey, mountaineer (died in climbing accident 1970)
24 February – Ian McNeill, footballer (died 2017)
12 March – Rory McEwen, artist and musician (died 1982 in England)
21 March – Thomas Welsh Watson, stage, television and film actor (died 2001)
8 April – Joan Lingard, writer (died 2022)^[6]
11 April – James Morrison, painter (died 2020)
4 May – Sandy MacAra, epidemiologist (died 2012 in England)
8 May – Phyllida Law, actress
15 May – Joseph Beltrami, defence lawyer (died 2015)
2 June
- Tom Nairn, political theorist and academic (died 2023)
- Jim Petrie, comic artist (died 2014)
5 June – Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, classical scholar (died 1981)
8 June – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, lawyer and judge (died 2017)
1 July – Donny MacLeod, television presenter (died 1984)
9 July – Jimmy Reid, trade unionist (died 2010)
9 August – Tam Dalyell, Labour Member of Parliament (died 2017)
13 August – John Bannerman, historian of Gaelic Scotland (died 2008)
3 October – Tommy Preston, footballer (died 2015)
11 October – Billie Anthony, born Philomena Levy, singer (died 1991 in England)
28 October – Ewen Fergusson, Scotland international rugby union player and diplomat (died 2017)
25 November – Maureen Swanson, actress, Countess of Dudley (died 2011)

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