1905 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1905 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1905 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1904â05 ⢠1905â06
Timeline of Scottish history
1905 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1904â05 ⢠1905â06
Incumbents
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal â Andrew Murray until 2 February; then The Marquess of Linlithgow until 4 December; then John Sinclair
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Charles Dickson until December; then Thomas Shaw
- Solicitor General for Scotland â David Dundas; then Edward Theodore Salvesen; then James Avon Clyde; then Alexander Ure
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General â Lord Blair Balfour until 22 January; then from 4 February Lord Dunedin
- Lord Justice Clerk â Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- January â Strathaven Academy opens.
- 28 September â Talla Reservoir officially opened to serve the Edinburgh district after 10 years of construction (supply begins May).
- 31 October â Perth Corporation Tramways commence electric operation.
- 18 November â First rugby match between New Zealand and Scotland, played at Murrayfield.
- 19 November â 39 men are killed in a fire at a model lodging house in Watson Street, Glasgow.[1][2]
- St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee, raised to cathedral status in the Episcopal Church.
- David Couper Thomson sets up the Dundee publisher D. C. Thomson & Co.
- Scottish Motor Traction is set up in Edinburgh as a motor bus operator.
- Victoria Bridge, Mar Lodge Estate, erected.
- Approximate date â the earliest Rolls-Royce 10 hp car to survive into the 21st century is acquired by Kenneth Gillies of Tain; it remains in Scotland until the time of World War I.[3]
Births
- 6 April â Johnny Ramensky, career criminal, employed as a commando for his safe-cracking abilities (died 1972)
- 19 April â Jim Mollison, aviator (died 1959)
- 12 May â Alex Jackson, international footballer (died 1946)
- 12 July â John Maxwell, landscape painter (died 1962)
- 19 July â Robert Hurd, influential conservation architect (died 1963)
- 20 August â Duncan Macrae, actor (died 1967)
- 6 September â William McEwan Younger, brewer and Unionist politician (died 1992 in England)
- 4 October â Leslie Mitchell, announcer (died 1985 in London)
- 9 December â Janet Adam Smith, writer and mountaineer (died 1999)
- Norman Cameron, poet (born in Bombay; died 1953 in London)
- Fred Hartley, light music composer and conductor (died 1980)
Deaths
- 21 January â Robert Brough, painter, died in a railway disaster (born 1872)
- 5 August â Alexander Asher, Liberal politician and Solicitor General for Scotland (born 1834)
- 16 August â Jamie Anderson, golfer (born 1842)
- 22 August â David Binning Monro, Homeric scholar (born 1836)
- 18 September â George MacDonald, author, poet and Christian minister (born 1844)
- 8 October â Allan MacDonald, Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (born 1859)
- 27 October â Ralph Copeland, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (born 1837 in England)
- 7 November â Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist (born 1855)
- 12 December â William Sharp, poet and literary biographer (born 1855)
The arts
- 16 January â Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.
- Harry Lauder writes the popular song "I Love a Lassie".