1942 in Scotland

{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}

• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston

• Lord Advocate – James Reid
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

• 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

• 19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers.{{cite book|author1=Penrith, James |author2=Penrith, Deborah |year=2007|title=Orkney & Shetland|series=The Scottish Islands|edition=3rd|location=Richmond, London|publisher=Crimson Publishing|isbn=9781854583710}}
• April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig.{{cite web|title=Bid to buy and restore war-time damaged Loch Arkaig forest|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35987886|work=BBC News|date=2016-04-07|access-date=2020-03-27}}
• 28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Hk01AAAAIBAJ&sjid=96ULAAAAIBAJ&pg=4967%2C6825117|title=Spa Hospital Fire: £20,000 Strathpeffer outbreak|work=The Glasgow Herald|date=1942-04-29|page=6|access-date=2019-01-20}}
• 15 May – {{RMS|Queen Mary}} arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm|work=The Flag in the Wind|publisher=The Scots Independent|access-date=2014-07-17|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm|archive-date=2014-05-23}}
• July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1457035.stm|title=Britain's 'Anthrax Island'|publisher=BBC|date=2001-07-25|access-date=2013-05-06}}
• 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.{{cite web|title=South Ford Causeway|url=http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/techservices/bridgescausewaysferries/southford.asp|location=Stornoway|publisher=Comhairle nan Eilean Siar|date=2013-09-29|access-date=2014-05-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227131836/http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/techservices/bridgescausewaysferries/southford.asp|archive-date=27 February 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.{{cite web|title=Monach|url=https://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Monach/|work=Lighthouse Library|publisher=Northern Lighthouse Board|location=Edinburgh|year=2009|access-date=2016-03-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305011630/http://www.nlb.org.uk/LighthouseLibrary/Lighthouse/Monach/|archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

• 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){{cite web |title=John Bellany obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/02/john-bellany |website=the Guardian |access-date=21 June 2022 |language=en |date=2 September 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

• 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)

• Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.

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