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Incumbents

Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt until post abolished 26 July
Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal, from 15 July – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

29 January – Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire by-elections: Conservatives retain the seats.
26 March – Bothwell by-election: Labour retains the seat.
3 – 12 May: 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Some violence in Glasgow.
26 November – launch, under the auspices of the Scots National League, of a new monthly Nationalist newspaper entitled The Scots Independent.^[1]
Findhorn Bridge near Tomatin completed.^[2]
First stage of Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme constructed.
Scotland's only sugar beet processing plant is opened at Cupar.
Sacramento River sternwheel paddle steamers Delta King and Delta Queen are shipped from William Denny and Brothers' yard at Dumbarton to California.
The post of Secretary for Scotland upgraded to a full Secretary of State appointment

Births

13 January – Craigie Aitchison, painter (died 2009)
17 January – Moira Shearer, ballet dancer (died 2006 in England)^[3]
11 February – Alexander Gibson, conductor and opera intendant (died 1995)
19 February – Charlie Cox, footballer (died 2008)
8 March – Edith MacArthur, actress (died 2018)
12 March – Gudrun Ure, actress (died 2024)
22 March – Alastair Reid, poet and scholar of South American literature (died 2014 in the United States)
1 April – William Macpherson, High Court judge and clan chief (died 2021)^[4]
3 April – Andrew Keir, actor (died 1997 in England)
22 April – James Stirling, architect (died 1992 in England)
24 May – Stanley Baxter, comic actor
31 May – Duncan Campbell, trumpet player (died 2013 in England)
2 July – Morag Beaton, dramatic soprano (died 2010 in Australia)
3 August – Rona Anderson, actress (died 2013 in England)^[5]
15 August – D. E. R. Watt, historian (died 2004)
4 September – George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of liquid crystal technology (died 2013)
12 September – Dave Valentine, international rugby player (died 1976)
17 October – Archie Duncan, historian (died 2017)
9 November – Johnny Beattie, comedian (died 2020)

Deaths

2 January – John Gray McKendrick, physiologist, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow (born 1841)
3 February – Archibald White Maconochie, businessman and MP (born 1855)^[6]
4 April – John McTavish footballer (born 1885)
31 July – John McPherson, international footballer (born 1868)
4 September – Alexander Morison McAldowie, physician, folklorist and ornithologist (born 1852)

The arts

22 November – Hugh MacDiarmid's Scots language poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is published.

References

^ About Us^[usurped] www.scotsindependent.org, accessed 18 May 2013.
^ "Findhorn Bridge". Canmore. Edinburgh: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
^ Clarke, Mary (2 February 2006). "Obituary: Moira Shearer". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
^ Flockhart, Gary (15 February 2021). "Sir William Macpherson: Judge in Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry dies aged 94". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
^ Bergan, Ronald (9 August 2013). "Rona Anderson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
^ "Turning Back the Clock: the Maconochie brothers, iconic Lowestoft employers who fed an army". Lowestoft Journal. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2019.

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