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List of events
Events from the year 1920 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
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12 February –
Paisley by-election: Former Prime Minister
H. H. Asquith, who lost his East Fife seat at the
general election two years previously, retains the seat for Liberals, with an increased majority of 2,834 votes over the
Labour Party candidate, John McLaren Biggar.
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31 March –
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8 June –
John Wilson installed as
Senator of the College of Justice with the judicial title Lord Ashmore, replacing the deceased
Lord Guthrie
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17 August –
transatlantic liner
RMS Empress of Canada is launched at the
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at
Govan on the
Clyde for
Canadian Pacific Steamships.
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20 November – Edinburgh absorbs the burgh of
Leith.
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5 December – Scotland votes against
prohibition generally, although about 40 districts vote in favour.
- First
council houses in Scotland, and the first housing estate in Europe to have a
district heating system, the Logie Estate in
Dundee.
[4]
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Edith Hughes establishes her own architectural practice, in Glasgow, the first British woman to do so.
- The fishing village of Obbe on the Isle of
Harris is renamed
Leverburgh after the English landowner
William Lever, Baron Leverhulme.
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Scottish Protestant League founded by Alexander Ratcliffe.
[5]
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Border Terrier first recognised as a
dog breed by
The Kennel Club.
Births
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3 January –
Hugh McCartney, Labour MP (died
2006)
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4 March –
Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (died
2002)
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27 April –
Edwin Morgan, poet (died
2010)
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22 September –
Lyall Stuart Scott, consultant surgeon (died
1977)
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17 October –
Donald Stewart, SNP MP for the Western Isles 1970–87 (died
1992)
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22 November –
Anne Crawford, film actress, born in Mandatory Palestine (died 1956 in England)
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28 November –
Alexander Scott, poet and literary scholar (died
1989)
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13 December –
John Rennie (GC), acting
sergeant with
the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's), awarded the
George Cross (died 1943 in England)
Deaths
The arts
See also
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