1895 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1895 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1895 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1894â95 ⢠1895â96
Timeline of Scottish history
1895 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1894â95 ⢠1895â96
Incumbents
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal â Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, to 29 June; then Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â John Blair Balfour until July; then Sir Charles Pearson
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Thomas Shaw; then Andrew Murray
Judiciary
Events
- 11 February â the lowest ever UK temperature of â27.2 °C (measured as â17 °F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.[1] (This UK Weather Record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.)
- 11 April â electric light is introduced in Edinburgh.[2]
- 13 April â first cremation in Scotland's first crematorium, at Glasgow's Western Necropolis.[3]
- JulyâAugust â second "Race to the North": Operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Aberdeen.
- 28 October
- The Daily Record newspaper is first published.
- Probable date of the first car shipped into Scotland, a Panhard for Glasgow engineer George Johnston.[4]
- Percy Pilcher flies in several versions of his hang glider Bat at Cardross, Argyll, the first person to make repeated heavier-than-air flights in the UK.[5][6]
- Sule Skerry lighthouse completed.
- New Dunoon Pier built.
- New offices for The Glasgow Herald (later The Lighthouse), designed by John Keppie[7] and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
- New premises for Jenners department store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, completed.
- The North British Aluminium Company builds Britain's first aluminium smelting plant on the shore of Loch Ness at Foyers.
- Babcock & Wilcox Ltd establish a manufacturing facility at Renfrew based on the existing Porterfield Foundry.
- Paterson's begin baking oatcakes in Rutherglen.[8]
Births
- 2 March â Hughie Ferguson, footballer (suicide 1930)
- 9 March â Isobel Baillie, soprano (died 1983)
- 29 March â Anne Redpath, still life painter (died 1965)
- 19 May â Charles Sorley, poet (killed in action 1915)
- 17 June â George MacLeod, soldier and minister of religion (died 1991)
- 16 July â Hay Petrie, character actor (died 1948)
- 25 August â R. D. Low, comics writer and editor (died 1980)
- 3 October â George Henry Tatham Paton, recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1917)
Deaths
- 18 June â Lord Colin Campbell, Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885 and probable adulterer (born 1853)
- 22 August â Peter Denny, shipbuilder and owner (born 1821)
- George Thompson, shipowner and politician (born 1804)