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