1891 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1891 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1891 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1890â91 ⢠1891â92
Timeline of Scottish history
1891 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1890â91 ⢠1891â92
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â James Robertson until August; vacant until October; then Sir Charles Pearson
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Sir Charles Pearson; then Andrew Murray
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General â Lord Glencorse until 20 August; then from 21 September Lord Robertson
- Lord Justice Clerk â Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- January â attempts by Scottish railway companies to evict their striking workers from company housing are resisted by force.
- 30 April â An Comunn GÃ idhealach is formally instituted.[1]
- 21 May â Dumbarton and Rangers are declared joint champions after drawing a play-off game 2â2 at Cathkin Park, Glasgow at the end of the inaugural season of the Scottish Football League.
- 21 July â City of Glasgow Act extends city boundaries and transfers ownership of Glasgow Botanic Gardens to the corporation.[2]
- September â Hugh Munro publishes the first table of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal; these become known as the Munros.
- 16 Novemberâ27 February 1892 â Buffalo Bill's Wild West show is resident at the former East End Exhibition Buildings in Glasgow.[3]
- 18 December â the largest conventional civilian sailing ship ever built on the River Clyde, the 5-masted barque-rigged steel-hulled vessel Maria Rickmers (3,822 GRT), is launched by Russell & Co. at Port Glasgow for Rickmers Reederei of Bremerhaven.[4]
- Hydroelectricity installation at Fort Augustus Abbey.
- The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers moves from Musselburgh to a new private course at Muirfield.
Births
- 7 February â D. Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and philatelist (died 1971)
- 2 April â Jack Buchanan, actor and producer (died 1957)
- 9 April â Agnes Mure Mackenzie, historian and writer (died 1955)
- 7 May â Harry McShane, socialist (died 1988)
- 8 November â Neil M. Gunn, novelist (died 1973)
Deaths
- 12 March â John Dick Peddie, architect, businessman and Liberal Party MP for Kilmarnock Burghs (1880â1885) (born 1824)
- 19 April â Hugh Smellie, steam locomotive engineer (born 1840)
- 11 May â Alexander Beith, Free Church minister (born 1799)
- 15 September â Sir John Steell, sculptor (born 1804)
- 22 November â John Gregorson Campbell, folklorist and Free Church minister (born 1836)
- 22 December â William Smith, architect (born 1817)
The arts
- J. M. Barrie's novel The Little Minister is published.[5]
- Mà iri Mhòr nan Ãran (Mary MacPherson)'s Gaelic Songs and Poems is published.
- The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.