1873 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1873 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1873 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1872â73 ⢠1873â74
Timeline of Scottish history
1873 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1872â73 ⢠1873â74
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- March â Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company (co-founded with William Menzies)
- 3 March â the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union
- 13 March â the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association[1]
- 15 November â statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh[2]
- Edinburgh Evening News first published
- Lexicographer James Murray publishes Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland
- George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecessor of the Weir Group, to Glasgow[3]
Births
- 8 April â James Drever, psychologist (died 1950)
- 13 April â James Salmon, architect (died 1924)
- 6 July â George Aitken Clark Hutchison, Scottish Unionist MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern (1922â23, 1924â28) (died 1928)
Deaths
- 24 February â Thomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist (born 1803)
- 8 March â Robert William Thomson, engineer, inventor of the bicycle tyre (born 1822)
- 1 May â David Livingstone, pioneer medical missionary (born 1813)
- 2 October â John Cunningham, architect (born 1799)
- 27 October â Janet Hamilton, poet (born 1795)
- Hugh Fraser, retailer (born 1815)