1946 in Scotland

Events from the year 1946 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Joseph Westwood

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – George Reid Thomson
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Daniel Blades

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

 * 16 March – American Liberty ship Byron Darnton runs aground off Sanda Island; all 54 aboard are rescued.
 * 13 April – a crowd of 139,468 at Hampden Park, Glasgow, watch the Scotland national football team defeat England 1-0 in a Victory International series Association football match.
 * 3 May — The Hoover Company opens a factory at Cambuslang.
 * 10 July – a crowd of 45,000 at Hampden Park watch Jackie Paterson defend his world flyweight boxing title.
 * 25 July – a train collides with a bus which has crashed through level crossing gates at Balmuckety near Kirriemuir, killing 10.
 * 27 August – MV Princess Victoria, the first roll-on/roll-off ferry built for service in British waters (the Stranraer–Larne crossing), is launched at William Denny and Brothers' shipyard in Dumbarton.
 * 22–27 November – the last election for a university constituency in the United Kingdom is held when the Combined Scottish Universities by-election is held. Walter Elliot (Unionist) wins decisively.
 * 5 December
 * A Kilmarnock by-election results in Willie Ross holding the seat for Labour.
 * Scottish edition of the Daily Mail begins publication in Edinburgh.
 * Drift mine opened in Machrihanish Coalfield.
 * Naturalist Gavin Maxwell purchases the island of Soay, Skye, and attempts to start a commercial shark fishing enterprise there.

Births

 * 6 January – John Duignan, economist and writer (died 2019)
 * 16 January – Graham Masterton, horror author
 * 30 January – Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, Lord Advocate
 * 28 February – Robin Cook, Labour MP and Foreign Secretary (died 2005)
 * 12 April – George Robertson, politician, Secretary General of NATO
 * May – Jock Brown, solicitor and football commentator
 * 10 May – Donovan, singer, songwriter and guitarist
 * 13 May – Bill Torrance, broadcaster
 * 1 June – Brian Cox, actor
 * 15 June – Michael Lynch), historian
 * 9 June – James Kelman, novelist
 * 9 July – Bon Scott, hard rock musician (AC/DC) in Australia (died 1980 in London)
 * 10 July – Stuart Christie, anarchist (died 2020)
 * 16 July – Charles McKean, Professor of Scottish Architectural History (died 2013)
 * 29 July – Bill Forsyth, film director
 * 19 August – Christopher Malcolm, television and film actor (died 2014 in London)
 * 25 August – Gavin Clydesdale Reid, economist
 * 27 August – Peter Tobin, serial killer and sex offender
 * 14 September – Pete Agnew, rock bassist and backing vocalist
 * 14 October – Dan McCafferty, rock singer-songwriter (died 2022)
 * 27 October – Margaret Bennett, ethnologist
 * 6 November – George Young, rock musician in Australia (died 2017)
 * 18 November
 * Andrea Allan, actress
 * Chris Rainbow (born Christopher James Harley), pop rock singer and musician (died 2015)
 * 14 December – Peter Lorimer, international footballer (died 2021)
 * Louise Martin, sports administrator
 * Gordeanna McCulloch, folk singer with The Clutha
 * Ronald Rae, sculptor

Deaths

 * 17 February – Sir George Pirie, painter (born 1863)
 * 18 February – Catherine Carswell, biographer and journalist (born 1879)
 * 20 May – Jane Findlater, novelist (born 1866)
 * 5 June – James Craig Annan, photographer (born 1864)
 * 14 June – John Logie Baird, television pioneer (born 1888; died in England)
 * 15 July – Binnie Dunlop, editor and advocate of eugenics (born 1874)
 * 23 July – James Maxton, MP and leader of the Independent Labour Party (born 1885)
 * 6 August – Benny Lynch, flyweight boxer (born 1913)
 * 18 August – Marion Angus, Scots language poet (born 1865 in England)
 * 9 September – Violet Jacob, historical novelist (born 1863)

Arts and literature

 * 22 May – English writer George Orwell leaves London to spend much of the next 18 months at Barnhill, Jura, working on his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
 * Summer – Robert McLeish's The Gorbals Story is premiered by Glasgow Unity Theatre at the Queens Theatre.
 * Oriel Malet's fictionalised biography of Marjory Fleming is published.
 * Janet Adam Smith's Life Among the Scots is published.
 * The Central Office of Information short film The Glen is Ours is released.