1894 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1894 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1894 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1893â94 ⢠1894â95
Timeline of Scottish history
1894 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1893â94 ⢠1894â95
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 5 July â racing cutter Valkyrie II (1893) collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality.[1]
- 11 July â rebuilt St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, dedicated.
- July â Marion Gilchrist becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university.
- 7 August â the West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William.[2]
- 25 August â Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 receives the Royal Assent. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.
- December â Longmorn distillery begins production.
- Lady Victoria Colliery comes into production at Newtongrange, Midlothian.
- McVitie's biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt.
- Elsie Inglis sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh.
- Craigholme School founded by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as Pollokshields Ladies' School.
- Alyth golf course laid out by Old Tom Morris.
- Marion Adams-Acton publishes Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history.
Births
- 26 March â Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer (died 1985)
- 13 May â Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (died 1968)
- 28 June â Allardyce Nicoll, literary scholar (died 1976 in England)
- 29 June â David Steele, international footballer and manager (died 1964)
- 14 October â Victoria Drummond, marine engineer (died 1978 in England)
- Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer (died 1972)
- R. M. Smyllie, journalist (died 1954 in Ireland)
Deaths
- 3 September â John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian (born 1829)
- 3 December â Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1850; dies on Samoa)[3]
- Alexander Henry, gun maker and rifle volunteer (born 1818)
The arts
- Ian Maclaren's stories Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush are published.[4]
- Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863 in the United States) dies; Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir is published posthumously edited by Andrew Lang.