Events from the year 1932 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt until 28 September; then Sir Godfrey Collins
Law officers Lord Advocate – Craigie Mason Aitchison Solicitor General for Scotland – Wilfrid Normand
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans
Events 26 May – the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence. 26 September – first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow. 16 November – a colliery explosion at Cardowan kills 11 miners. Wendy Wood leads a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, at this time an Army barracks as well as a heritage attraction, to tear down the Union Flag and replace it with a Scottish standard. Finnieston Crane begins operation. Etive Bridge, Stirling, built. A flock of Soay sheep is translocated from Soay to Hirta (also in the depopulated St Kilda archipelago) by conservationist John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute. Edinburgh Synagogue is opened.
Births 4 January – Dick Douglas, Labour, later SNP, Member of Parliament (died 2014) 19 January – George MacBeth, poet and novelist (died 1992 in Ireland) 20 February – Tom Patey, mountaineer (died in climbing accident 1970) 24 February – Ian McNeill, footballer (died 2017) 12 March – Rory McEwen, artist and musician (died 1982 in England) 21 March – Thomas Welsh Watson, stage, television and film actor (died 2001) 8 April – Joan Lingard, writer (died 2022) 11 April – James Morrison, painter (died 2020) 4 May – Sandy MacAra, epidemiologist (died 2012 in England) 8 May – Phyllida Law, actress 15 May – Joseph Beltrami, defence lawyer (died 2015) 2 June Tom Nairn, political theorist and academic (died 2023) Jim Petrie, comic artist (died 2014) 5 June – Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, classical scholar (died 1981) 8 June – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, lawyer and judge (died 2017) 1 July – Donny MacLeod, television presenter (died 1984) 9 July – Jimmy Reid, trade unionist (died 2010) 9 August – Tam Dalyell, Labour Member of Parliament (died 2017) 13 August – John Bannerman, historian of Gaelic Scotland (died 2008) 3 October – Tommy Preston, footballer (died 2015) 11 October – Billie Anthony, born Philomena Levy, singer (died 1991 in England) 28 October – Ewen Fergusson, Scotland international rugby union player and diplomat (died 2017) 25 November – Maureen Swanson, actress, Countess of Dudley (died 2011)
Deaths 8 January – William Graham, Scottish politician (born 1887) 25 January – James Paterson, painter (born 1854) 11 February – Robert Gibb, painter (born 1845) 31 March – Thomas David Anderson, amateur astronomer (born 1853) 14 April – Cynicus (Martin Anderson), satirical cartoonist and postcard publisher (born 1854) 8 July – John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, Sheriff 1900–20, Senator of the College of Justice 1930–28 (born 1857) 16 September – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (born 1860) William Gillies, nationalist (born 1865)
The arts Jenny Brown's short documentary film Da Makkin' O' A Keshie is made. Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, first of his A Scots Quair trilogy, is published. Fionn MacColla's novel The Albannach is published.
See also Timeline of Scottish history 1932 in Northern Ireland
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