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List of events
Events from the year 1903 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Willow Tearooms
Births
15 January –
Hugh Fraser , retailer (died
1966 )
3 February –
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton , peer and pioneering aviator, chief pilot of the first flight over
Mount Everest in 1933 (born in London; died
1973 )
15 March –
Charles Donaldson , Conservative politician (died
1964 )
9 April –
Marion Ross , physicist (died
1994 )
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23 April –
Ian Collins , tennis player, representing Great Britain in the
Davis Cup (died
1975 )
24 April –
Joseph Macleod , poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader (born in London; died
1984 )
15 May –
William MacTaggart , painter, known for his landscapes of
East Lothian ,
France ,
Norway and elsewhere (died
1981 )
17 June –
William Vallance Douglas Hodge , mathematician, specifically a geometer (died 1975)
2 July –
Alec Douglas-Home , Baron Home of the Hirsel, British Conservative politician, Prime Minister from October 1963 to October 1964 (born in London; died
1995 )
3 July –
David Webster , arts administrator (died 1971 in England)
28 July –
Keith Murray , academic and
Rector of
Lincoln College, Oxford (died
1993 )
9 August –
Emil Fischbacher , Protestant Christian missionary to
Xinjiang , with the
China Inland Mission (died 1933)
5 September –
Harry Harvey Wood , literary and artistic figure, a founder of the
Edinburgh International Festival (died
1977 )
31 October –
Ian Smith , international rugby player (died
1972 )
19 December –
Andrew Murray ,
Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1947 to 1951 (died
1977 )
29 December –
George Elrick , bandleader and disc jockey (died
1999 )
Undated
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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