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Events from the year 1935 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George V
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Godfrey Collins
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Wilfrid Normand until April; then Douglas Jamieson until December; then Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Douglas Jamieson until April; vacant until May; then Thomas Mackay Cooper until December; then Albert Russell
Judiciary
Events
- 31 March & 5 December – Glasgow Subway electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectively[1]
- 16 May – Thomas Mackay Cooper becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,[2] replacing Douglas Jamieson
- 22 June – Kerr's Miniature Railway at Arbroath opens for business[3]
- 9 September – Glaswegian flyweight Benny Lynch becomes the first Scottish boxing world champion in a bout in Manchester[4]
- mid–late September – Lancaster general practitioner Buck Ruxton disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near Moffat
- 23 October – a footbridge across the River Forth at Cambuskenneth replaces a ferry[5]
- 2 November – Scottish-born thriller-writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada
- 14 November – UK General Election: The Communist Party of Great Britain candidate, Willie Gallacher, wins the constituency of West Fife[6]
- 2 December – Albert Russell becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,[7] replacing Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Edwin Muir publishes Scottish Journey
Births
- 5 February – Alex Harvey, glam rock musician (died 1982 in Belgium)
- 21 February – Mark McManus, film and television actor (died 1994)
- 2 March – Jackie Brown, boxer (died 2020)
- 4 March – Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
- 12 April – Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
- 5 May – Eddie Linden, poet and political activist
- 8 May – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, politician
- 9 May – Zander Wedderburn, psychologist (died 2017)
- 7 June – William Stewart, biologist and academic
- 16 July – Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament 1974–79 (died 2006)[8]
- 10 August – John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
- 27 August – Eddie Connachan, goalkeeper (died 2021 in South Africa)
- 12 September – David Macmillan, actor
- 15 October – Richard McTaggart, boxer
- 23 October – Ewan Hooper, actor
- 22 November – Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014)
- 3 December – Robin Neillands writer specialising in travel and military history (died 2006)
- 26 December – Stevie Chalmers, footballer (died 2019)
- 31 December – Jeff Torrington, novelist (died 2008)
- Jack Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer (died 2013)
- Donald Forbes, criminal, "Scotland's most dangerous man" (died 2008)
- Hamish MacDonald, impressionist and colourist painter (died 2008)
Deaths
- 12 March – Malcolm Smith, Liberal Party politician and MP (born 1856)
- 16 March – John James Rickard Macleod, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1876)
- 28 April – Sir Alexander Mackenzie, composer (born 1847)
- 5 June – James Manson, mechanical engineer (born 1845)
- 22 June – George Brisbane Scott Douglas, poet and writer (born 1856 in Gibraltar)
- 27 September – William W. Naismith, mountaineer (born 1856)
- 11 October – Samuel Peploe, painter (born 1871)
- 16 October – Margaret Moyes Black, novelist and biographer (born 1853)
- 22 November – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (born 1880)
References
- Wright, John; Maclean, Ian (1997). Circles Under the Clyde: a history of the Glasgow Underground. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. pp. 58–87. ISBN 1-85414-190-2.
- "No. 15174". The Edinburgh Gazette. 17 May 1935. p. 424.
- Little, Lawson (2000). Kerr's Miniature Railway: Scotland's Oldest Small-Scale Line. The Narrow Gauge, no. 169. Narrow Gauge Railway Society. ISBN 0-9507169-9-5.
- "Boxing News – Fighter Bios – Benny Lynch – Former world flyweight champion". SecondsOut. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- "The Flag in the Wind: Notable Dates in History". The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- "William Gallacher". Renfrewshire Council. Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- "No. 15231". The Edinburgh Gazette. 3 December 1935. p. 1021.
- Wilson, Brian (25 September 2006). "Obituary: Douglas Henderson". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
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