Events from the year 1942 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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 19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers. April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig. 28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire. 15 May – arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard. July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island. 25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness. South Ford Bridge completed, connecting Benbecula to South Uist. Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.
Births 5 January – Henry John Burnett, murderer, last man hanged in Scotland (died 1963) 24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter 2 February – Roger Hynd, footballer (died 2017) 21 February – Magnus Linklater, journalist 22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat 24 February – Stuart Henry, disc jockey (died 1995 in Luxembourg) 27 February – Aimi MacDonald, actress and dancer 12 April – Bill Bryden, theatre director 28 April – Geoffrey Hosking, historian 8 May – Norman Lamont, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 14 May – Prentis Hancock, actor 24 May – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 7 June – Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet (died 2022) 18 June – John Bellany, painter (died 2013) 12 July – Tam White, actor and musician (died 2010) 8 August – Dennis Canavan, politician 12 August – Iain Blair, actor and author (using the pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England) 23 October – Douglas Dunn, poet and academic 16 November – Willie Carson, jockey 24 November – Billy Connolly, comedian 9 December – Billy Bremner, international footballer (died 1997) 10 December – Ann Gloag, born Ann Souter, entrepreneur 12 December – Morag Hood, actress (died 2002 London) 13 December – Hamish Wilson, actor 22 December – Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw, businessman 27 December – Mike Heron, psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band) Albert Watson, photographer
Deaths 2 March - Charles Usher, ophthalmologist from whom Usher Syndrome is named (born 1865) 3 March - George Adam Smith, theologian (born 1856 in Calcutta) 10 August – Bob Kelso, footballer (born 1865) 4 December – Hugh Malcolm, Royal Air Force officer, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1917; killed in action over Tunisia) Andrew Allan, lithographic artist (born 1863)
The arts Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.
See also Timeline of Scottish history 1942 in Northern Ireland
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