1910 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1910 }}
Events from the year 1910 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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Events
- June – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
- 6–13 August – First Scottish International Aviation Meeting held at Lanark.{{cite web|title=PB244 – Programme for The Scottish International Aviation Meeting, Lanark, 1910|url=http://www.dumfriesaviationmuseum.com/pb244-programme-lanark-1910/|publisher=Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum|date=2017-09-07|access-date=2020-03-01}}
- 17 September – Andrew Blain Baird makes the first powered monoplane flight in Scotland, at Ettrick Bay on the Isle of Bute in a self-built machine.{{cite web|title=First all-Scottish heavier-than-air powered flight|url=http://www.bairdofbute.com/|year=2010|access-date=2014-04-08|archive-date=25 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225103159/http://www.bairdofbute.com/|url-status=usurped}}
- 19 December – Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow opened
- The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith.
Births
- 6 May – Jerry Morris, epidemiologist (died 2009){{cite journal|last=Ashton|first=J. R.|journal=Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health|title=Professor J N "Jerry" Morris|year=2000|volume=54|page=881a|doi=10.1136/jech.54.12.881a|pmc=1731598|pmid=11076980}}
- 10 March – Jane Duncan, born Elizabeth Jane Cameron, novelist (died 1976)
- 17 March – Molly Weir, actress (died 2004 in London)
- 19 April – Andrew Gilchrist, Special Operations Executive operative, and later ambassador (died 1993)
- 23 April – Sheila Scott Macintyre, mathematician (died 1960)
- 15 July – George Friel, novelist (died 1975)
- 1 September – Charles Maxwell, radio producer (died 1998)
- 14 November – Norman MacCaig, poet (died 1996){{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarynorman-maccaig-1325669.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarynorman-maccaig-1325669.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|first=Angus|last=Calder|author-link=Angus Calder|title=Obituary: Norman MacCaig|newspaper=The Independent|location=London|date=1996-01-25|access-date=2014-02-21}}{{cbignore}}
- December – Ian Donald, physician, pioneer in the use of Medical ultrasonography (died 1987)
Deaths
- 18 January – James Cuthbertson, Scottish-Australian poet and schoolteacher (born 1851)
- 2 April – William McTaggart, landscape and marine painter (born 1835)
- 6 April – John McLaren, Lord McLaren, Liberal politician (born 1831)
- 13 April – William Quiller Orchardson, portraitist and painter (born 1832)
- 15 April – John Smith, dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator (born 1825)
- 10 May – William Gordon Stables, naval physician and novelist (born 1840)
- 23 June – Robert Boog Watson, malacologist and Free Church minister (born 1823)