1907 in Scotland

Events from the year 1907 in Scotland.

← 1906 1905 1904 1903 1902 1907 in Scotland → 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1907 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1906–07 • 1907–08

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

Events

• 5 February – epidemic of meningitis in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast
• 24 April – Titan Clydebank crane first operates at John Brown & Company's shipyard
• 24 August – last horse trams in Edinburgh operate
• 18 September – Andrew Carnegie receives the freedom of Burntisland^[1]
• New Ayr Racecourse opens
• Edinburgh College of Art gains its present name and site
• The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discovered^[2]
• Scottish wildcat first scientifically classified^[3]
• Limited Partnership Act regulates Scottish limited partnerships

Births

• 2 January – Robert Wilson, tenor (died 1964)
• 4 January – Walter Donaldson, snooker player (died 1973 in England)
• 28 January – Robert McLellan, playwright (died 1985)
• 4 February – James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter (died 1998)
• 16 April – Martin Boddey, film and television actor (died 1975 in London)
• 22 May – Huw Lorimer, sculptor (died 1993)
• 13 August – Sir Basil Spence, architect (died 1976 in Yaxley, Suffolk)
• 28 August – Tom Hanlin, novelist (died 1953)
• 2 October – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997 in England)^[4]
• 7 October – Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist (died 1985 in the United States)
• 4 November – Ferguson Rodger, physician (died 1978)
• 5 December – William Barclay, Professor of Divinity (died 1978)
• 25 December – Andrew Cruickshank, actor (died 1988 in England)
• Jameson Clark, character actor (died 1984)
• Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent and historical novelist (died 2000)
• Betty Henderson, actress (died 1979)

Deaths

• 21 January – John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian (born 1829)
• 4 April – Alexander Macbain, philologist (born 1855)
• 13 May – Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist (born 1827)
• 19 July – William Gunion Rutherford, classicist (born 1853)
• 30 August – James Adam, classicist (born 1860)
• 6 October – David Masson, literary critic and historian (born 1822)
• 4 November – Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar (born 1837)
• 6 November – James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (born 1834)^[5]
• 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist (born 1824 in Ireland)
• Jane Arthur, feminist and activist (born 1827)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1907 in Ireland

References

1. "Andrew Carnegie - Scottish connections". Scotcities.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
2. Peach, B. N.; et al. (1907). The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Scotland. Glasgow: H.M.S.O.
3. Miller, G. S. (1907). "L.—Some new European Insectivora and Carnivora". Journal of Natural History. 20 (119): 389–398. doi:10.1080/00222930709487354.
4. "Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd | British biochemist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
5. Dell, R.K. (1990). "Hector, James". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 October 2021.