1935 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1935 }}
Events from the year 1935 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – Wilfrid Normand until April; then Douglas Jamieson until December; then Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Douglas Jamieson until April; vacant until May; then Thomas Mackay Cooper until December; then Albert Russell
= Judiciary =
Events
- 31 March & 5 December – Glasgow Subway electrified service opened to public on inner and outer circle respectively{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Wright|first2=Ian|last2=Maclean|title=Circles Under the Clyde: a history of the Glasgow Underground|location=Harrow Weald|publisher=Capital Transport|year=1997|isbn=1-85414-190-2|pages=58–87}}
- 16 May – Thomas Mackay Cooper becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,{{London Gazette |issue=15174 |date=17 May 1935 |page=424 | city=e}} replacing Douglas Jamieson
- 22 June – Kerr's Miniature Railway at Arbroath opens for business{{cite book|first=Lawson|last=Little|title=Kerr's Miniature Railway: Scotland's Oldest Small-Scale Line|publisher=Narrow Gauge Railway Society|year=2000|series=The Narrow Gauge, no. 169|isbn=0-9507169-9-5}}
- 9 September – Glaswegian flyweight Benny Lynch becomes the first Scottish boxing world champion in a bout in Manchester{{cite web|url=http://www.secondsout.com/legends/fighter-bios/benny-lynch--former-world-flyweight-champion|title=Boxing News – Fighter Bios – Benny Lynch – Former world flyweight champion|work=SecondsOut|access-date=2014-05-24}}
- mid–late September – Lancaster general practitioner Buck Ruxton disposes of the bodies of his murder victims near Moffat
- 23 October – a footbridge across the River Forth at Cambuskenneth replaces a ferry{{cite web|title=The Flag in the Wind: Notable Dates in History |url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |work=The Scots Independent|access-date=2014-07-21 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |archive-date=23 May 2014 }}
- 2 November – Scottish-born thriller-writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, is sworn in as Governor General of Canada
- 14 November – UK General Election: The Communist Party of Great Britain candidate, Willie Gallacher, wins the constituency of West Fife{{cite web|url=http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/webcontent/home/services/leisure+and+culture/heritage+and+local+history/els-jh-famouspeoplewilliamgallacher|title=William Gallacher|publisher=Renfrewshire Council|access-date=2014-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414070712/http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/webcontent/home/services/leisure+and+culture/heritage+and+local+history/els-jh-famouspeoplewilliamgallacher|archive-date=14 April 2013|url-status=dead}}
- 2 December – Albert Russell becomes Solicitor General for Scotland,{{London Gazette | issue = 15231 | date = 3 December 1935 |page=1021 | city = e }} replacing Thomas Mackay Cooper
- Edwin Muir publishes Scottish Journey
Births
- 5 February – Alex Harvey, glam rock musician (died 1982 in Belgium)
- 21 February – Mark McManus, film and television actor (died 1994){{cite web |title=Obituary: Mark McManus |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-mark-mcmanus-1420944.html |website=The Independent |access-date=27 November 2022 |language=en |date=6 June 1994}}
- 2 March – Jackie Brown, boxer (died 2020)
- 4 March – Nancy Whiskey, born Anne Wilson, folk singer (died 2003 in England)
- 12 April – Keith Moffatt, applied mathematician specialising in magnetohydrodynamics
- 5 May – Eddie Linden, poet and political activist (died 2023)
- 8 May – Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, politician
- 9 May – Zander Wedderburn, psychologist (died 2017)
- 7 June – William Stewart, biologist and academic
- 16 July – Douglas Henderson, SNP politician and Member of Parliament 1974–79 (died 2006){{cite web|last1=Wilson|first1=Brian|title=Obituary: Douglas Henderson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/26/guardianobituaries.obituaries1|website=The Guardian|access-date=24 February 2018|language=en|date=25 September 2006}}
- 10 August – John MacLeod of MacLeod, born John Wolrige-Gordon, clan chief (died 2007 in England)
- 27 August – Eddie Connachan, goalkeeper (died 2021 in South Africa)
- 15 October – Richard McTaggart, boxer
- 23 October – Ewan Hooper, actor
- 22 November – Hugh C. Rae, novelist (died 2014)
- 3 December – Robin Neillands writer specialising in travel and military history (died 2006)
- 26 December – Stevie Chalmers, footballer (died 2019)
- 31 December – Jeff Torrington, novelist (died 2008)
- Jack Alexander of The Alexander Brothers, folk singer (died 2013)
- Donald Forbes, criminal, "Scotland's most dangerous man" (died 2008)
- Hamish MacDonald, impressionist and colourist painter (died 2008)
Deaths
- 12 March – Malcolm Smith, Liberal Party politician and MP (born 1856)
- 16 March – John James Rickard Macleod, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1876)
- 22 April – Frederick Farrell, watercolourist, war artist (born 1882)
- 28 April – Sir Alexander Mackenzie, composer (born 1847)
- 5 June – James Manson, mechanical engineer (born 1845)
- 22 June – George Brisbane Scott Douglas, poet and writer (born 1856 in Gibraltar)
- 27 September – William W. Naismith, mountaineer (born 1856)
- 11 October – Samuel Peploe, painter (born 1871)
- 16 October – Margaret Moyes Black, novelist and biographer (born 1853)
- 22 November – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (born 1880)