• Source: 1965 in Scotland

Events from the year 1965 in Scotland.




Incumbents



Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross




= Law officers

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Lord Advocate – Gordon Stott
Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Wilson




= Judiciary

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Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson until 12 April; then Lord Birsay




Events


March – Cables Wynd House ("Banana Flats") completed in Leith.
24 March – Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles by-election: David Steel (Liberal) gains the seat from the Conservatives.
12 April – Harald Leslie becomes Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, with the judicial title Lord Birsay. He replaces Lord Gibson.
15 June – Law Commissions Act 1965, establishing the Scottish Law Commission, receives the Royal assent.
August – Union Canal officially closed to navigation.
5 August – the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 receives royal assent.
11 August – first edition of The Celtic View, the official weekly magazine of Celtic F.C. in Glasgow, is published.
20 August – Cassius Clay fights an exhibition bout at the Ice Rink, Paisley.
6 September – Edinburgh Princes Street railway station is officially closed.
15 October – the Cruachan Dam pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme at Ben Cruachan near Oban opens.
8 November – the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act suspends capital punishment for murder in England, Scotland and Wales, for five years in the first instance, replacing it with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
November – Harthill Bypass opened, first section of the M8 motorway and the first substantive section of motorway in Scotland.
The Unionist Party in Scotland is renamed the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and constitutionally comes under the control of the London-based Conservative Party.
Construction of the town of Dalgety Bay begins.
Highlands and Islands Development Board formed.
Corpach pulp and paper mills open.




Births


18 January – Paul Flexney, footballer
20 January – Colin Calderwood, international footballer and coach
22 January – Brian McCardie, actor
27 January – Alan Cumming, actor
6 February – Simone Lahbib, actress
11 February – Keith Cochrane, businessman
14 February – Ian Spittal, footballer
16 February – Ally Maxwell, footballer and coach
22 February – John Leslie (born John Leslie Stott), television presenter
5 March – Carolyn Leckie, Scottish Socialist Party MSP (2003–2007)
8 March – Paul Martin, footballer and manager
20 March – William Dalrymple, historian
22 March – Rob Wainwright, international rugby union footballer
23 March – Marti Pellow (born Mark McLachlan), singer
26 March – Pat McFadden, Labour MP (Wolverhampton 2005– )
6 April – Andy Walker, footballer and TV pundit
11 April – Lynn Ferguson, writer, actress, comedian and presenter
25 April – Ally Dick, footballer
16 May – Stuart Millar, football player and manager
17 May – Keith Wright, international footballer
24 May – Brian Irvine, international footballer
28 May – Vic Kasule, footballer
5 June – Allan Guthrie, literary agent, author and editor of crime fiction
19 June – A. B. Jackson, poet
22 June – Jimmy Sandison, footballer
3 July – Tommy Flanagan, actor
9 July – David O'Hara, actor
12 July – Eric Cullen, actor (died 1996)
15 July – Alistair Carmichael, Liberal Democrat politician and Secretary of State for Scotland
19 July – Evelyn Glennie, virtuosa percussionist
24 July – Julie Graham, actress
26 July – Hamish Clark, actor
11 August – Robert Fleck, international footballer and manager
30 August – Peter Grant, international footballer and manager
5 September – Murdo Fraser, Conservative MSP (2001– )
11 September:
Robert Docherty, footballer
Graeme Obree, racing cyclist
14 September – Paul McFadden, footballer
27 September – Rhona Cameron, comedian
14 October – Sandy Stewart, footballer and manager
20 October – Norman Blake, singer, instrumentalist and songwriter
22 October – A. L. Kennedy, fiction writer
29 October – Paul Stewart, racing driver
12 November – Eddie Mair, radio and television presenter
19 November – Douglas Henshall, actor
24 November – Shirley Henderson, actress
25 November – Dougray Scott, actor
28 November – Caroline Paterson, actress
11 December – Alison Watt, painter
13 December – Hugh Burns, footballer
20 December – Robert Cavanah, actor, writer, director and producer
21 December – Stuart Mitchell, pianist and composer
31 December – Mike Conroy, footballer
Unknown
Anne Bevan, visual artist, sculptor and lecturer
Christine Borland, sculptor
Patricia Littlechild, sport shooter and neurosurgeon
Susan Philipsz, sound artist




Deaths


7 January – Anne Redpath, domestic painter (born 1895)
1 February – Robert Spence, Labour MP
14 February – David Ferguson Hunter, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1891)
30 April – James William Slessor Marr, marine biologist and polar explorer (born 1902)
17 March – Walter Potter Ritchie, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1892)
31 March – Gerard Crole, international rugby union and cricket player (born 1894)
9 April – Robert Gibson, Lord Gibson, lawyer and Labour MP
9 May – Hugh O'Donnell, footballer (born 1913)
16 July – William Reid, Scottish Labour Party Member of Parliament from 1950 to 1964 (born 1889)
2 August – John Carmont, High Court Judge (born 1890)
12 August – Willie Gallacher, trade unionist, activist and communist MP (born 1881)
5 September – Tom Johnston, Labour MP, government minister and chairman of North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (born 1881)
8 October – James Nelson, international footballer (born 1901)
20 October – William Thomas Shaw, Unionist Party MP (born 1879)




The arts


George Mackay Brown's poetry The Year of the Whale is published.
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts opens the Kelly Gallery.
31 December – "Pirate" radio station Radio Scotland begins broadcasting from LV Comet anchored outside U.K. territorial waters off Dunbar.




See also


1965 in Northern Ireland




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