“1944 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 – Tom Johnston

Law officers

Lord Advocate – James Reid

Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

Judiciary

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

Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cooper

Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

Events

17 February – in the Kirkcaldy Burghs by-election, the Scottish National Party candidate Douglas Young comes close to winning the seat (which is held for Labour by Thomas Hubbard).^[1]

26–30 June – World War II: the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division spearhead Operation Epsom, also known as the First Battle of the Odon, during the Battle of Normandy.

September – Churchill Barriers on Orkney completed, together with Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm.

9 November – the House of the Binns (near Linlithgow) becomes the first estate house given to the National Trust for Scotland (by Eleanor Dalyell).

12 November – World War II: sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz at Tromsø by Lancaster bombers of No. 9 and 617 Squadrons flying from RAF Lossiemouth.^[2]

30 November – {{HMS|Vanguard|23}} is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank by HRH The Princess Elizabeth. The Royal Navy's largest, fastest and last battleship, she was laid down in October 1941 and will be in commission from 1946 to 1960.^[3]

December – 97 Italians tunnel out of a prisoner-of-war camp at Doonfoot but are quickly recaptured.^[4]

Births

23 January – John McCluskey, boxer (died 2015)

11 March – Graham Lyle, singer-songwriter

13 May – Vivien Heilbron, actress

17 May – Jimmy Boyle, sculptor, writer and murderer

5 June – Jim Brogan, footballer (died 2018)

3 July – Paul Young, actor

7 July – George Logan, stage entertainer

17 August – Bobby Murdoch, international footballer (died 2001)

22 August – Tom Leonard, poet (died 2018)

23 September – Eric Bogle, folk singer-songwriter in Australia

30 September – Jimmy Johnstone, international footballer (died 2006)^[5]

17 November – Malcolm Bruce, Liberal politician

12 December – Kenneth Cranham, actor

Shena Mackay, novelist

Deaths

8 February – John Watson, advocate and sheriff, Solicitor General for Scotland 1929–31 (born 1883; dies on train to Scotland)

16 March – David Prain, botanist (born 1857)

5 July – Robert William Hamilton, Liberal politician and MP (born 1867)

11 July – Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, shipbroker, Liberal politician and philanthropist (born 1851)

11 August – William Fife, yacht designer (born 1857)

16 August – Walter Robberds, Bishop of Brechin and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (born 1863 in the British Raj)

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=House of Commons|work=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page|date=2008-03-28|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm|accessdate=2014-07-17}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/raflossiemouth/aboutus/history.cfm|publisher=RAF Lossiemouth|accessdate=2014-05-23}}
3. ^{{cite book|last=McCart|first=Neil|title=HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship|publisher=Maritime Books|location=Liskeard, Cornwall|year=2001|isbn=0-907771-83-1}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=PoW Camp Summary WW II|url=http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/PoWCampSummaryWWII|work=Secret Scotland|date=2013-07-31|accessdate=2014-09-03}}
5. ^{{cite web|last1=Glanville|first1=Brian|title=Obituary: Jimmy Johnstone|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/14/guardianobituaries.football|website=the Guardian|accessdate=23 February 2018|language=en|date=14 March 2006}}

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