1880 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1880 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1880 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1879â80 ⢠1880â81
Timeline of Scottish history
1880 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1879â80 ⢠1880â81
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â William Watson until May; then John McLaren
- Solicitor General for Scotland â John Macdonald; then John Blair Balfour
Judiciary
Events
- February â telephones introduced in Edinburgh.[1]
- 27 April â 1880 United Kingdom general election: The Liberal Party defeat the Conservatives by a substantial majority following the 'Midlothian campaign' by William Ewart Gladstone who is returned as Member of Parliament for Midlothian and becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1 July â the Callander and Oban Railway is opened throughout to Oban.
- October â the SS Ferret is fraudulently chartered at Greenock and taken to Australia.[2]
- A. & R. Scott of Glasgow begin producing the predecessor of Scott's Porage Oats.[3]
Births
- 29 March â Bobby Templeton, footballer (died 1919)
- 4 April â William Russell Flint, watercolourist (died 1969)
- 30 April â Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, cartoonist (died 1967)
- 6 May â Edmund Ironside, British Army officer (died 1959)
- 14 May â B. C. Forbes, financial journalist (died 1954 in the United States)
- 1 July â Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (died 1935)
- 13 August â Mary Macarthur, trade unionist (died 1921)
- September â Peter Kyle, footballer (died 1961)
- 23 September â John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)
- 15 October â Marie Stopes, author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control (died 1958)
- 18 October â Alexander Livingstone, Liberal politician (died 1950)
- Margaret McCoubrey, suffragette and pacifist in Belfast (died 1955 in Northern Ireland)
- Dorothy Carleton Smyth, artist and designer (died 1933)
- Preston Watson, aviator (killed in military aviation accident 1915)
Deaths
- 3 April â John Laing, bibliographer and Free Church minister (born 1809)
- 31 December â John Stenhouse, chemist (born 1809)
Sport
- Scottish Grand National first run under this name.
- 1870s Rangers F.C. seasons
- 1879â80 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season
- 1879â80 Hibernian F.C. season
- 1879â80 Scottish Cup
- 1880 Open Championship
- 1880â81 Scottish Cup
- 1880â81 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season
- 1880â81 Hibernian F.C. season
Establishments
The arts
- William McGonagall produces his doggerel poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster" to commemorate the previous December's Tay Bridge disaster.