1942 in Scotland

Events from the year 1942 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Tom Johnston

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – James Reid
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir David King Murray

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Normand
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cooper
 * Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

Events

 * 19 January – a Catalina flying boat crashes on the hill above Burravoe on Yell, Shetland, killing seven of her ten passengers.
 * April – Allied commandos training with live ammunition accidentally cause a major pine forest fire at Loch Arkaig.
 * 28 April – Strathpeffer spa hospital (a hotel until 1940) is destroyed by fire.
 * 15 May – RMS Queen Mary arrives at Greenock with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops aboard.
 * July – military scientists begin testing of anthrax as a biological warfare agent on Gruinard Island.
 * 25 August – Dunbeath air crash: Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of George VI, is among 14 killed in a military air crash near Caithness.
 * South Ford Bridge completed, connecting Benbecula to South Uist.
 * Monach Islands deserted. Lighthouse on Shillay unlit.

Births

 * 5 January – Henry John Burnett, murderer, last man hanged in Scotland (died 1963)
 * 24 January – Sheila Mullen, painter
 * 2 February – Roger Hynd, footballer (died 2017)
 * 21 February – Magnus Linklater, journalist
 * 22 February – John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat
 * 24 February – Stuart Henry, disc jockey (died 1995 in Luxembourg)
 * 27 February – Aimi MacDonald, actress and dancer
 * 12 April – Bill Bryden, theatre director
 * 28 April – Geoffrey Hosking, historian
 * 8 May – Norman Lamont, Conservative politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
 * 14 May – Prentis Hancock, actor
 * 24 May – Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * 7 June – Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet (died 2022)
 * 18 June – John Bellany, painter (died 2013)
 * 12 July – Tam White, actor and musician (died 2010)
 * 8 August – Dennis Canavan, politician
 * 12 August – Iain Blair, actor and author (using the pen name Emma Blair) (died 2011 England)
 * 23 October – Douglas Dunn, poet and academic
 * 16 November – Willie Carson, jockey
 * 24 November – Billy Connolly, comedian
 * 9 December – Billy Bremner, international footballer (died 1997)
 * 10 December – Ann Gloag, born Ann Souter, entrepreneur
 * 12 December – Morag Hood, actress (died 2002 London)
 * 13 December – Hamish Wilson, actor
 * 22 December – Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw, businessman
 * 27 December – Mike Heron, psychedelic rock musician (The Incredible String Band)
 * Albert Watson, photographer

Deaths

 * 2 March - Charles Usher, ophthalmologist from whom Usher Syndrome is named (born 1865)
 * 3 March - George Adam Smith, theologian (born 1856 in Calcutta)
 * 10 August – Bob Kelso, footballer (born 1865)
 * 4 December – Hugh Malcolm, Royal Air Force officer, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1917; killed in action over Tunisia)
 * Andrew Allan, lithographic artist (born 1863)

The arts

 * Ena Lamont Stewart's first play, the one-act Distinguished Company, is presented by the MSU Repertory Theatre in Rutherglen.