1894 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1894 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1893–94 • 1894–95 |
Events from the year 1894 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — John Blair Balfour
- Solicitor General for Scotland — Alexander Asher; then Thomas Shaw
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Robertson
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- 5 July — Racing cutter Valkyrie II (1893) collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality.[1]
- 11 July — Rebuilt St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, dedicated.
- July — 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 — The West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William.[2]
- 25 August — Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 receives the Royal Assent. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.
- 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.
- 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 — Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer (died 1985)
- 13 May — Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (died 1968)
- 29 June — David Steele, international footballer and manager (died 1964)
- 14 October — 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 — John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian (born 1829)
- 3 December — Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1850; dies on Samoa)[3]
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.
See also
References
- ↑ "The Yacht Valkyrie sunk" (pdf). The New York Times. 1894-07-06. Retrieved 2012-04-22.
- ↑ Thomas, John (1965). The West Highland Railway. Dawlish: David & Charles.
- ↑ "Robert Louis Stevenson". BBC. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ↑ Sutherland, John (2007). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-19-921489-1.
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