1898 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1898 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1898 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1897â98 ⢠1898â99
Timeline of Scottish history
1898 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1897â98 ⢠1898â99
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 22 January â the People's Palace on Glasgow Green opens.[1]
- 18 October â Trinity Chain Pier at Trinity, Edinburgh, collapses in a storm.
- 1 November â completion throughout of the Highland Railway's Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway.
- The Madelvic Motor Carriage Company opens its factory for the manufacture of electric vehicles in Granton, Edinburgh, one of the first purpose-built car factories in the U.K. The company goes into liquidation in December 1899.[2]
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh carries out the interior design for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Argyle Street, Glasgow, including the first appearance of his characteristic high-backed chair.
- Scottish-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie purchases Skibo Castle in Sutherland (which he has been leasing for a year).
- Construction of Glenborrodale Castle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula as a guest residence for mining magnate Charles Rudd by architect Sydney Mitchell begins.[3]
- United Collieries Ltd formed in Glasgow to acquire coal mining companies.
- The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary.
Births
- 13 February â Duncan Campbell, evangelical revivalist (died 1972)
- 7 April â Dorothy Renton, gardener (died 1966)
- 26 April â John Grierson, documentary film maker (died 1972 in England)
- 28 April â William Soutar, poet (died 1943)
- 18 July â John Stuart, actor (died 1979)
- 31 July â Doris Zinkeisen, theatrical designer and commercial artist (died 1991 in England)
- 11 September â John Meikle, winner of the Victoria Cross (killed 1918 on the Western Front (World War I))
- 27 December â W. C. Sellar, humourist (died 1951 in England)
- William Gillies, painter (died 1973)
Deaths
- 21 July â William Alexander Hunter, academic lawyer and Liberal politician (born 1844)
- 16 October â John Ritchie Findlay, newspaper owner and philanthropist (born 1824)
- 7 November â Mà iri Mhòr nan Ãran, Gaelic poet (born 1821)
- 10 December â William Black, novelist (born 1841)