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Events from the year 1877 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Glencorse
 - Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Moncreiff
 
Events
- 16 October — The Abertay light vessel is moored on station off Dundee, Scotland's first lightvessel.[1]
 - 22 October — Blantyre mining disaster: Scotland’s worst-ever mining accident kills over 200.[2]
 - 3 December — The original Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute is burned down.
 - The rebuilt Ardverikie House in Badenoch, designed by John Rhind, is completed.[3]
 - Cluny Harbour at Buckie is built.
 - Wick Harbour breakwater is washed away in a storm for a second time.
 - Mitchell Library established in Glasgow.
 - Manufacture of linoleum at Kirkcaldy begins.[4]
 - Six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.[5]
 - Separate U.K. Ayrshire cattle and Galloway cattle societies established and herd books set up.[6]
 - A breed register for the Clydesdale horse is established.
 
Births
- 25 February — John Tait Robertson, international footballer (died 1935)
 - 12 May — William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir, industrialist and politician (died 1959)
 - 9 November — Helen Crawfurd, suffragette and communist activist (died 1954)
 - 26 November — Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask, whisky distiller (suicide 1924)
 
Deaths
- 2 January — Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1810)
 - 3 February — James Merry, ironmaster, race-horse breeder and Liberal MP (1859–74) (born 1805)
 
The Arts
- William McGonagall discovers himself to be a poet (according to his own account).[7]
 
See also
References
- ↑ "Mariners and Seamen" (PDF). The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee. 2011. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
 - ↑ "Blantyre Disaster 22nd October 1877". Scottish Mining Website. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
 - ↑ "History". Ardverikie Estate Limited. Retrieved 2014-07-05.
 - ↑ Smith, Alexander (1952). The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: County of Fife. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. pp. 287–8. OCLC 41800432.
 - ↑ Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1877". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
 - ↑ Dohner, Janet Vorwald (June 2010). "Ayrshire Cattle: Heritage Livestock Breeds". Mother Earth News. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
 - ↑ Hunt, Chris, ed. (2006). William McGonagall: Collected Poems. Edinburgh: Birlinn. p. vi. ISBN 9781841584775.
 
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