1914 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1914 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• Monarch — George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Thomas McKinnon Wood

Law officers

• Lord Advocate — Robert Munro
• Solicitor General for Scotland — Thomas Brash Morison

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Strathclyde
• Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Kennedy

Events

• 21 February — Militant suffragette Ethel Moorhead, imprisoned in Calton Jail, Edinburgh, for attempted fire-raising, becomes the first in Scotland to suffer force-feeding while on hunger strike; 4 days later she is released on health grounds.
• 14 April — A collision at Burntisland railway station between an express and a shunting goods train following a signalman's error kills two locomotive crew and injures twelve passengers.
• 2 May — Glasgow newspaper The Saturday Post, a predecessor of The Sunday Post, changes its title to The Sporting Post.
• 18 June — A railway bridge collapse at Carrbridge following a torrential thunderstorm kills five people.
• July — Militant suffragette Fanny Parker is arrested while attempting (probably with Ethel Moorhead) to set fire to Burns Cottage, Alloway.
• 3 July — Govanhill Baths in Glasgow inaugurated.
• 4 July — A memorial is unveiled at Hawick to the Battle of Hornshole (1514).
• 10 July — A royal visit to Scotland is interrupted by suffragettes: one attempts to reach the King and Queen's carriage at Dundee; and Rhoda Fleming leaps onto the footboard of the royal car at Perth; police protect her from an angry crowd.
• 30 July — Norwegian aviator Tryggve Gran makes the first crossing of the North Sea by aeroplane, flying from Cruden Bay to Jæren in Norway in the Blériot XI monoplane Ca Flotte.
• August — The British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet is formed in Scapa Flow.
• 4 August — World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.
• 9 August — World War I: HMS Birmingham (1913) rams and sinks Imperial German Navy submarine U-15 off Fair Isle, the first U-boat claimed by the Royal Navy.
• 28 August–28 September — World War I: German spy Carl Hans Lody is operating from Edinburgh.
• September — World War I
  • Revolutionary socialist teacher John Maclean holds his first anti-war rally, on Glasgow Green.
  • Rumours spread that Russian troops, landed on the east coast of Scotland, have passed on trains through Britain en route to the Western Front.
• 5 September — World War I: Scout cruiser HMS Pathfinder (1904) is sunk by German submarine U-21 in the Firth of Forth with loss of all but nine of her crew, the first ship ever to be sunk by a locomotive torpedo fired from a submarine.
• 8 September — Armed merchant cruiser HMS Oceanic runs aground on the Shaalds o' Foula and is lost.
• 14 September — World War I: Scottish soldiers William Henry Johnston, Ross Tollerton and George Wilson win the Victoria Cross in separate actions on the Western Front.
• 26 September — World War I: The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division, newly formed as part of Kitchener's Army, first parades as a unit.
• 15 October — World War I: Protected cruiser HMS Hawke (1891) is torpedoed by German submarine U-9 off Aberdeen, sinking in under 10 minutes with the loss of 524 crew and only 70 survivors.
• 16/17 October - World War I: Scare of submarine attack in Scapa Flow causes the Grand Fleet to disperse while the anchorage is secured.
• 22 October — World War I: Glaswegian Private Henry May, a regular soldier with 1st Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) at La Boutillerie, wins the Victoria Cross for rescuing wounded comrades.
• 3 November — Trawler Ivanhoe, requisitioned as an armed patrol vessel, strikes the Black Rock near Leith while minelaying and sinks.
• 23 November — World War I: German submarine U-18 is intercepted and forced to scuttle while attempting to enter Scapa Flow.
• 25 November — World War I: Sixteen Heart of Midlothian F.C. players enlist en masse - seven will die in action before the war ends.
• St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, raised to the status of cathedral within the Episcopal Church.

Births

• 1 January — Alexander Reid, playwright (died 1982)
• 13 March — Kay Tremblay film actress, living in Canada (died 2005 in Stratford, Ontario)
• 26 May — Archie Duncan, actor (died 1979)
• 14 June — Alexander Buchanan Campbell, architect (died 2007)
• 14 June — Ruthven Todd, poet, artist and novelist (died October 1978 in Spain)
• 25 June — Matthew McDiarmid, literary scholar, essayist, campaigning academic and poet (died 1996)
• 15 July — Gavin Maxwell, naturalist and writer (died 1969)
• 2 September — Bill Shankly, footballer and manager, including Liverpool F.C. (died 1981 in Liverpool)
• 4 November — Duncan Macrae, international rugby union player (died 2007)
• 20 December — Robert Colquhoun, painter, printmaker and theatre set designer (died 1962 in London)
• 29 December — Tom Weir, climber, naturalist and broadcaster (died 2006)
• Ann Scott-Moncrieff, author (died 1943)

Deaths

• 1 March — Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, soldier and colonial administrator (born 1845 in London)
• 16 March — Sir John Murray, oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist (born 1841 in Canada)
• 31 March — William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, writer, journalist, editor, historian and educator (born in 1856)
• 26 June — Edward Calvert, domestic architect (born 1847 in Brentford)
• 30 September — Sir Henry Littlejohn, forensic surgeon (born 1826)
• 21 October — James William Cleland, Liberal Party MP for Glasgow Bridgeton (1906–10) (born 1874)
• 19 December — William Bruce, soldier, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1890; killed in action near Givenchy)
• 25 December — Donald MacKinnon, Celtic scholar (born in 1839)

The Arts

• John MacDougall Hay's novel Gillespie is published.