1967 in Scotland
# 1967 in Scotland

Events from the year 1967 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Gordon Stott; then Henry Wilson
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Wilson; then Ewan Stewart

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
* Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay

## Events

* 7 February – Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh, designed by Spence, Glover & Ferguson (project architect: John 'Archie' Dewar), is dedicated.
* 9 March – Glasgow Pollok by-election: Conservatives take the seat from Labour despite a fall in support as the Scottish National Party gains 28% of the vote.
* 26 March – closure of Machrihanish Coalfield.
* April–June – the Scottish Region of British Railways withdraws its last steam locomotives.
* 28 April – Third Lanark A.C. plays its last football match.
* 25 May – Celtic F.C. become the first British and Northern European team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time with the winning goal being scored by Steve Chalmers in Lisbon, Portugal.
* 27 May – closure of the last route served by trolleybuses in Glasgow.
* 9 September – an underground fire at Michael Colliery in East Wemyss in the Fife Coalfield kills 9; more than 300 escape but the mine is closed.
* 20 September – the Queen Elizabeth 2, the largest ship ever built in Scotland and the last passenger ship built on the Clyde, is launched at John Brown & Company's yard at Clydebank.
* 2 November – Hamilton by-election: Winnie Ewing wins for the Scottish National Party, taking the seat from Labour.
* 13 November – University of Stirling chartered.
* 20 December – Scott Lithgow formed to merge the Clyde shipbuilding interests of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows.
* Deepwater pier on Coll opened.
* Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist–Leninist) formed.
* Scottish Civic Trust formed to promote protection and enhancement of the built environment.
* Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre established in Eskdalemuir.

## Births

* January – King Creosote (Kenny Anderson), singer-songwriter
* 21 February – Neil Oliver, archaeologist and television presenter
* 11 March – John Barrowman, actor
* 8 June – Kathryn Imrie, golfer
* 15 August – Tony Hand, ice hockey player
* 23 August – Jim Murphy, Labour politician
* 26 August – Michael Gove, Conservative politician
* 26 October – Douglas Alexander, Labour politician
* 29 December – Carl Honoré, writer on current affairs
* Martin Boyce, sculptor
* Graeme Macrae Burnet, novelist
* Nathan Coley, installation artist

## Deaths

* 3 January – Mary Garden, operatic soprano (born 1874)
* 23 March – Duncan Macrae, actor (born 1905)
* 3 August – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (born 1876)
* 13 August – Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, poet (born 1887)
* 6 September – Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (born 1904)
* Annie Maxton, Independent Labour politician

## The Arts

* George Mackay Brown's first book of stories, A Calendar of Love, published
