“1941 in Scotland”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Incumbents

Monarch – George VI

Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Ernest Brown until 8 February; then Tom Johnston

Law officers

Lord Advocate – Thomas Mackay Cooper until June; then James Reid

Solicitor General for Scotland – James Reid until June; Sir David King Murray

Judiciary

Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand

Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Aitchison, then Lord Cooper

Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Murray, then Lord Gibson

Events

17 January – a German Heinkel He 111 meteorological aircraft is crash-landed on Fair Isle.

5 February – the cargo ship {{SS|Politician}} runs aground on Eriskay.

12 February – Tom Johnston is appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, a post which he holds until the end of the wartime coalition.^[1]

24 February – SS Jonathan Holt is torpedoed in a convoy off Cape Wrath by German submarine U-97 with the loss of 51 of her 57 crew, including English travel writer Robert Byron.

13–14 March – Clydebank Blitz: bombing of Clydebank.

6–7 May – Greenock Blitz: Greenock is intensively bombed.

10 May – Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission.

12 May – the Honours of Scotland are secretly buried within Edinburgh Castle as a precaution against invasion.^[2]

2 June – 2 adults and 8 children are killed at Buckhaven when a naval mine explodes on the foreshore.^[3]

30 August – first official 'Shetland bus' clandestine mission using Norwegian fishing boats between Shetland and German-occupied Norway.

5 November – the Commercial Bar in Fraserburgh receives a direct hit from a German bomb, killing over 30.^[3]

Loudoun Castle is gutted by fire.

Births

9 April – Hannah Gordon, television actress

9 May – John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley, lawyer and judge

18 May – Malcolm Longair, astrophysicist

22 May – Menzies Campbell, leader of the Liberal Democrats (UK)

22 November – Tom Conti, actor

25 December – Kenneth Calman, medical researcher and academic

31 December – Alex Ferguson, footballer and manager

Deaths

6 April – Kenneth Campbell, airman, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient (born 1917; killed in action over Brest, France)

12 April – Charles Murray, Doric dialect poet and civil engineer (born 1864)

19 June – William James Cullen, Lord Cullen, judge (born 1859)

29 June – Sir Alexander MacEwen, solicitor, Provost of Inverness and first Scottish National Party leader (born 1875 in British India)

17 July – Charles Melvin, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1885)

3 December – Neil Harris, footballer and manager (born 1894)

References

1. ^{{cite book|quote=Johnson was a giant figure in Scottish politics and is revered to this day as the greatest Scottish Secretary of the century.|first=T. M.|last=Devine|authorlink=Tom Devine|title=The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000|location=London|publisher=Allen Lane|year=1999|isbn=0713993510|pages=551–2}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=How the Honours of Scotland were hidden in the castle to thwart Hitler's invading troops|first=Christopher|last=Reekie|date=1993-04-05|newspaper=The Herald|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/how-the-honours-of-scotland-were-hidden-in-the-castle-to-thwart-hitler-s-invading-troops-1.765396|accessdate=2014-05-09}}
3. ^¹{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History |url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |work=The Flag in the Wind |publisher=The Scots Independent |accessdate=2014-07-17 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |archivedate=23 May 2014 |df= }}

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