Events from the year 1908 in Scotland .
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Law officers
Judiciary
Events
26 January – the 1st Glasgow Scout Group is granted the oldest Scout Group registration known.25 April – Kincardineshire by-election : Arthur Murray holds the seat for the Liberal Party .1 May –31 October – Scottish National Exhibition held in Saughton Park , Edinburgh.[ 1] 9 May – Dundee by-election : Winston Churchill holds the seat for the Liberal Party.[ 2] May – Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club formed.
14 July – first ship launched from Yarrow Shipbuilders ' new yard at Scotstoun , the first Pará -class destroyerBrazilian Navy .[ 3] 11 –12 August : Sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics : The 12-metre class is contested from Hunters Quay on the Firth of Clyde and won by Thomas C. Glen-Coats ' Hera .[ 4] Landless men from Barra who have crossed to Vatersay on a land raid in an attempt to claim land are prosecuted by the absentee landowner Emily Gordon, Lady Cathcart , and imprisoned for two months in Edinburgh, although the judge is critical of the landowner.[ 5]
St Mary's Episcopal Church in Glasgow is raised to the status of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow , within the Scottish Episcopal Church .
Walter Robberds , Bishop of Brechin , becomes Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church , an office he will hold until 1934 .Eskdalemuir Observatory opened for geophysical and meteorological recording.[ 6] West Highland White Terrier first so named as a breed.[ 7] Perth Racecourse , the most northerly in Britain, opened for National Hunt racing .
Births
20 January – Ian Peebles , cricketer (died 1980 )28 January – Jimmy Shand , accordionist and bandleader (died 2000 )2 February – J. K. Annand , poet and founding editor of Lallans magazine (died 1993 )15 April – Denis Devlin , Irish modernist poet and diplomat (died 1959 in Ireland )22 April – Leonard Schapiro , scholar of Russian politics (died 1983 in London)27 April – Mary Docherty , Communist activist (died 2000 )23 May – Duncan Black , economist (died 1991 in Paignton )5 June – Bill Fraser , stage and screen actor (died 1987 in Hertfordshire )7 June – Thomas Cook , Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for constituencies in Dundee 1945–52; died 1952 )10 June – Russell Waters , stage and screen actor (died 1982 in London)12 June – Ronnie Selby Wright , Church of Scotland minister (died 1995 )23 August – Hannah Frank , visual artist (died 2008 )24 August – Ian Garrow , army officer (died 1976 )19 October – Sydney MacEwan , singer and priest (died 1991 )28 October – Angus MacVicar , writer (died 2001 )Jeannie Robertson , folk singer (died 1975 )
Deaths
25 January – Sir Thomas McCall Anderson , professor of practice of medicine (born 1836 )30 January – James Bell Pettigrew , naturalist and museum curator (born 1834 )22 March – John William Crombie , Liberal MP for Kincardineshire (1892–1908)[ 8] 1858 )24 March – Sir James David Marwick , lawyer, historian and town clerk (born 1826 )13 May – Louisa Stevenson , campaigner for women's rights (born 1835 )7 June – William Lithgow , shipbuilder (born 1854 )25 October – Lewis Campbell , classicist (born 1830 )19 December – Thomas Lomar Gray , engineer, noted for his pioneering work in seismology (born 1850 )Joseph Henderson , artist (born 1832 )John James Stevenson , architect (born 1831 )
The arts
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