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Events from the year 1938 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Walter Elliot until 16 May; then John Colville
 
Law officers
Judiciary
Events

Queen Elizabeth on the stocks
- 27 April – Second Division team East Fife F.C. uniquely win the Scottish Cup in Association football.[1]
 - 3 May – Empire Exhibition opens in Glasgow.[2]
 - 30 July – The Beano comic, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. of Dundee, goes on sale across the U.K.[3]
 - 27 September – RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at Clydebank; she is the largest ship in the world at this time.
 - Iona Community established by Rev. George MacLeod in Glasgow.
 - English landowner David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, buys the island of Inch Kenneth.
 - The Hermitage of Braid estate, adjacent to Blackford Hill, is gifted to the city of Edinburgh for recreational purposes by John McDougal.
 - The Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is excavated by V. Gordon Childe.
 - Broughton Place at Broughton in the Borders is built in the style of a traditional tower house by Basil Spence incorporating decorative reliefs by Hew Lorimer.[4]
 - Turner & Newall establish an asbestos cement plant at Dalmuir.
 - Agnes Mure Mackenzie publishes The Foundations of Scotland, the first of a 6-volume history.
 
Births
- 2 January – Ian Brady, born Ian Duncan Stewart, serial killer (died 2017 in Ashworth Hospital)
 - 16 February – Willie Hamilton, footballer (died 1976 in Canada)
 - 7 March – Alan Cousin, footballer (died 2016)
 - 31 March
- Ian Gray, comics scriptwriter (died 2007)
 - David Steel, UK Liberal Member of Parliament and Liberal Democrat leader and 1st Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
 
 - 16 April – Gordon Wilson, Scottish National Party leader (died 2017)
 - 5 June – Moira Anderson, singer
 - 18 June – Michael Sheard, character actor (died 2005)
 - 27 June – David Hope, judge
 - 7 June – Ian St John, footballer and manager (died 2021 in England)
 - 28 July – Ian McCaskill, weatherman (died 2016)
 - 13 September – John Smith, UK Labour Party leader (died 1994 in London)
 - 14 September – Nicol Williamson, actor (died 2011)
 - 20 October – Iain Macmillan, photographer (died 2006)[5]
 - 22 October – Alan Gilzean, footballer (died 2018)
 - 25 November – Maria Fyfe, née O'Neill, politician (died 2020)
 - 28 November – Frank Haffey, goalkeeper
 - 16 December – Neil Connery, actor, younger brother of Sean Connery (died 2021)
 - John Paisley, actor, working in China
 - Roland Poska, graphic artist (died 2017 in the United States)
 
Deaths
- 31 January – Sir James Crichton-Browne, psychiatrist (born 1840)
 - 9 April – Moses McNeil, footballer, a founder of Rangers F.C. (born 1855)
 - 11 April – David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1854)
 - 25 April – Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1934–38 (born 1875)
 - 29 April – James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, sculptor and poet (born 1856)
 - 2 July – John James Burnet, architect (born 1857)
 - 29 August – John Macdonald, sportsman and physician (died 1861)
 
The arts
- Hugh S. Roberton writes the "Mingulay Boat Song".
 
See also
References
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
 - ↑ Pelle, Findling, ed. (2008). "Appendix B: Fair Statistics". Encyclopedia of World's Fairs and Expositions. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-7864-3416-9.
 - ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
 - ↑ "Broughton Place, Broughton". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
 - ↑ "Iain MacMillan". Scotsman. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
 
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