1984 in Scotland
# 1984 in Scotland

Events from the year 1984 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – George Younger

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Lord Mackay of Clashfern; then Lord Cameron of Lochbroom
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Peter Fraser

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Emslie
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Wheatley
* Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Elliott

## Events

* 12 March – 1984/5 Miner's Strike: Polmaise Colliery is the first mine in Scotland to witness a walkout of its workers.
* 16 April – Culmination of the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars with the murder by arson of six members of the Doyle family.
* 3 May – 1984/5 miner's strike: Nearly 300 miners are arrested outside Ravenscraig in clashes with police as they try to stop lorries laden with coal entering.
* 14 June – Elections to the European Parliament result in Labour gaining three seats from the Conservatives to win 5 of the 8 seats in Scotland, with the Conservatives reduced to two and the SNP retaining the one they previously held.
* 30 July – Polmont rail accident at Polmont, near Falkirk, when an express train from Edinburgh to Glasgow, travelling at high speed, strikes a cow on the track near Polmont station, derailing several carriages and resulting in thirteen deaths and 61 injuries.
* 8 August – Official opening of Kylesku Bridge, replacing a ferry.
* August – Hutton oilfield production begins in the East Shetland Basin.
* Kellas cat identified as a hybrid.
* Undated
   * Puppet Animation Scotland organization is founded.

## Births

* 17 January – Calvin Harris, born Adam Richard Wiles, pop singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ
* 27 February – Catriona Forrest, field hockey player
* 12 March – Neil Fachie, para-cyclist
* 8 May – Martin Compston, screen actor and footballer
* 5 September – Alison Bell, field hockey player
* 8 September – Finlay Wild, fell runner
* 25 October – Adam MacKenzie, field hockey defender
* 30 November – Alan Hutton, footballer

## Deaths

* 28 March – Jimmy McGowan, footballer (born 1924)
* 15 April – Alexander Trocchi, writer (born 1925)
* 6 September – Donny MacLeod, TV presenter (born 1932; heart attack)
* 11 October – Benno Schotz, sculptor (born 1891 in Germany)
* date unknown
   * Jean Bain of Crathie, Aberdeenshire, last speaker of Deeside Gaelic (born Jean McDonald, 1890)
   * George Campbell Hay, poet (born 1915)

## The arts

* 16 February – Iain Banks' first novel The Wasp Factory is published.
* Robert Alan Jamieson's novel Soor Hearts is published.
* James Kelman's first (published) novel The Busconductor Hines is published in Edinburgh.
* Scottish Poetry Library established.
