1932 in Scotland

Events from the year 1932 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt until 28 September; then Sir Godfrey Collins

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Craigie Mason Aitchison
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Wilfrid Normand

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
 * Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

Events

 * 26 May – the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.
 * 26 September – first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.
 * 16 November – a colliery explosion at Cardowan kills 11 miners.
 * Wendy Wood leads a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, at this time an Army barracks as well as a heritage attraction, to tear down the Union flag and replace it with a Scottish standard.
 * Finnieston Crane begins operation.
 * Etive Bridge, Stirling, built.
 * A flock of Soay sheep is translocated from Soay to Hirta (also in the depopulated St Kilda archipelago) by conservationist John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute.
 * Edinburgh Synagogue is opened.

Births

 * 4 January – Dick Douglas, Labour, later SNP, Member of Parliament (died 2014)
 * 19 January – George MacBeth, poet and novelist (died 1992 in Ireland)
 * 20 February – Tom Patey, mountaineer (died in climbing accident 1970)
 * 24 February – Ian McNeill, footballer (died 2017)
 * 12 March – Rory McEwen, artist and musician (died 1982 in England)
 * 21 March – Thomas Welsh Watson, stage, television and film actor (died 2001)
 * 8 April – Joan Lingard, writer (died 2022)
 * 11 April – James Morrison, painter (died 2020)
 * 4 May – Sandy MacAra, epidemiologist (died 2012 in England)
 * 8 May – Phyllida Law, actress
 * 15 May – Joseph Beltrami, defence lawyer (died 2015)
 * 2 June
 * Tom Nairn, political theorist and academic (died 2023)
 * Jim Petrie, comic artist (died 2014)
 * 5 June – Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, classical scholar (died 1981)
 * 8 June – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, lawyer and judge (died 2017)
 * 1 July – Donny MacLeod, television presenter (died 1984)
 * 9 July – Jimmy Reid, trade unionist (died 2010)
 * 9 August – Tam Dalyell, Labour Member of Parliament (died 2017)
 * 13 August – John Bannerman, historian of Gaelic Scotland (died 2008)
 * 3 October – Tommy Preston, footballer (died 2015)
 * 11 October – Billie Anthony, born Philomena Levy, singer (died 1991 in England)
 * 28 October – Ewen Fergusson, Scotland international rugby union player and diplomat (died 2017)
 * 25 November – Maureen Swanson, actress, Countess of Dudley (died 2011)

Deaths

 * 8 January – William Graham, Scottish politician (born 1887)
 * 25 January – James Paterson, painter (born 1854)
 * 11 February – Robert Gibb, painter (born 1845)
 * 31 March – Thomas David Anderson, amateur astronomer (born 1853)
 * 14 April – Cynicus (Martin Anderson), satirical cartoonist and postcard publisher (born 1854)
 * 8 July – John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, Sheriff 1900–20, Senator of the College of Justice 1930–28 (born 1857)
 * 16 September – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (born 1860)
 * William Gillies, nationalist (born 1865)

The arts

 * Jenny Brown's short documentary film Da Makkin' O' A Keshie is made.
 * Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, first of his A Scots Quair trilogy, is published.
 * Fionn MacColla's novel The Albannach is published.