1957 in Scotland

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See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1957 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1956–57 • 1957–58 1957 in Scottish television

Events from the year 1957 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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

• Monarch — Elizabeth (since 6 February 1952)
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — James Stuart until 13 January; then John Maclay

Law officers

• Lord Advocate — William Rankine Milligan
• Solicitor General for Scotland — William Grant

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Thomson
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court — Lord Gibson

Events

• 6 January — Fishery cruiser Vaila runs aground off the Isle of Lewis with the loss of 5 crew.
• 5 February — Trawler Robert Limbrick runs aground on the Isle of Mull with the loss of all 12 crew.
• 29 March — The Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow in Orkney is reduced to an oil depot.
• 9 May — A major fire in Edinburgh destroys the premises and stock of William Mutrie & Sons, theatrical costumiers, at Bell's Brae.
• 31 August — Central Scotland's independent channel, Scottish Television, goes on air.
• 1 October — Transfer of criminally insane prisoners from the criminal lunatic department at HM Prison Perth to the State Institution for Mental Defectives at Carstairs which becomes the State Mental Hospital.
• 5 October — RAF Saxa Vord radar station on Unst is returned to fully operational status.
• 18 October — A Royal Air Force Gloster Meteor jet trainer aircraft crashes near Kirkcaldy with the loss of her 2 crew.
• 1 November — A replacement "Bawbee Brig" is opened across the River Leven, Fife, to connect Leven and Methil within Levenmouth.
• 19 November — An underground explosion at Kames Colliery near Muirkirk kills 17.
• 14 December — An underground explosion at Lindsay Colliery in Fife kills 9.
• Construction of a missile testing range on South Uist begins.
• First purpose-built Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Scotland completed at Riddrie, Glasgow.
• Folklorist F. Marian McNeill begins publication of The Silver Bough.

Births

• 9 February — Gordon Strachan, international footballer and manager
• 27 March — Billy Mackenzie, singer (commits suicide 1997)
• 7 June —
  • Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, soldier and politician (died 2016)
  • Iain Gray, Scottish Labour Party leader
• 11 July — Johann Lamont, Scottish Labour Party leader
• 23 September — Fergus Ewing, Scottish National Party minister
• Blair Jenkins, broadcaster
• Alan Riach, poet and academic

Deaths

• January — Harry Gordon, entertainer (born 1893)
• 21 April — John Graham Kerr, embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament (born 1869)
• 10 June — Sir Douglas MacInnes Shaw, army officer, businessman and Unionist Member of Parliament (born 1895)

The Arts

• Song of the Clyde (setting by Ian Gourlay of lyrics by R. Y Bell) is published.

See also

• 1957 in the United Kingdom