1903 in Scotland
Events from the year 1903 in Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Willow Tearooms
Births
15 January – Hugh Fraser , retailer (died 1966 )3 February – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton , peer and pioneering aviator, chief pilot of the first flight over Mount Everest in 1933 (born in London; died 1973 )15 March – Charles Donaldson , Conservative politician (died 1964 )9 April – Marion Ross , physicist (died 1994 )[ 10] 23 April – Ian Collins , tennis player, representing Great Britain in the Davis Cup (died 1975 )24 April – Joseph Macleod , poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader (born in London; died 1984 )15 May – William MacTaggart , painter, known for his landscapes of East Lothian , France , Norway and elsewhere (died 1981 )17 June – William Vallance Douglas Hodge , mathematician, specifically a geometer (died 1975)2 July – Alec Douglas-Home , Baron Home of the Hirsel, British Conservative politician, Prime Minister from October 1963 to October 1964 (born in London; died 1995 )3 July – David Webster , arts administrator (died 1971 in England)28 July – Keith Murray , academic and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford (died 1993 )9 August – Emil Fischbacher , Protestant Christian missionary to Xinjiang , with the China Inland Mission (died 1933)5 September – Harry Harvey Wood , literary and artistic figure, a founder of the Edinburgh International Festival (died 1977 )31 October – Ian Smith , international rugby player (died 1972 )19 December – Andrew Murray , Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1947 to 1951 (died 1977 )29 December – George Elrick , bandleader and disc jockey (died 1999 )Undated
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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