Events from the year 1958 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Maclay
Law officers
Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan
Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson
Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson
Events
13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Conservatives May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality 3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways last operate, leaving Glasgow as the only system in Scotland 20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow 4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts 11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders 18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued 1 September – first of the 'Cod Wars' between the U.K. and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out 15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line 19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal October – Thurso High School opened 21 November – construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins 5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the U.K. telephone network when The Queen dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison
Births
30 January – Derek White, rugby player
9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer
22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor
27 March – Peter Howson, figurative painter, war artist
14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor
25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver (died 2021) 3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer 2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress 17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker 30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster 20 September – Maureen Baker, physician 27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer Christina McAnea, trade union leader Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist James Robertson, novelist Adrian Wiszniewski, figurative painter
Deaths
8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888) 29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861) 2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875) 3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872) 19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)
The arts
7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968