Events from the year 1910 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
Law officers Lord Advocate – Alexander Ure Solicitor General for Scotland – Arthur Dewar; then William Hunter
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
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. 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. 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) 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) 27 December – Ian Donald, physician, pioneer in the use of medical ultrasound (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, novelist and pioneer caravanner (born 1840) 23 June – Robert Boog Watson, malacologist and Free Church minister (born 1823)
See also Timeline of Scottish history 1910 in Ireland
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