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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1891 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1890–91 • 1891–92  | ||||
Events from the year 1891 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch — Queen Victoria
 - Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — The Marquess of Lothian
 
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — James Robertson until August; vacant until October; then Sir Charles Pearson
 - Solicitor General for Scotland — Sir Charles Pearson; then Andrew Murray
 
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Glencorse until 20 August; then from 21 September Lord Robertson
 - Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
 
Events
- January — Attempts by Scottish railway companies to evict their striking workers from company housing are resisted by force.
 - 30 April — An Comunn Gàidhealach is formally instituted.[1]
 - 21 May — Dumbarton and Rangers are declared joint champions after drawing a play-off game 2–2 at Cathkin Park, Glasgow at the end of the inaugural season of the Scottish Football League.
 - September — Hugh Munro publishes the first table of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal; these become known as the Munros.
 - 16 November–27 February 1892 — Buffalo Bill's Wild West show is resident at the former East End Exhibition Buildings in Glasgow.[2]
 - 18 December — The largest conventional civilian sailing ship ever built on the River Clyde, the 5-masted barque-rigged steel-hulled vessel Maria Rickmers (3,822 GRT), is launched by Russell & Co. at Port Glasgow for Rickmers Reederei of Bremerhaven.[3]
 
Births
- 7 February — D. Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and philatelist (died 1971)
 - 2 April — Jack Buchanan, actor and producer (died 1957)
 - 9 April — Agnes Mure Mackenzie, historian and writer (died 1955)
 - 7 May — Harry McShane, socialist (died 1988)
 - 8 November — Neil M. Gunn, novelist (died 1973)
 
Deaths
- 12 March — John Dick Peddie, architect, businessman and Liberal Party MP for Kilmarnock Burghs (1880–1885) (born 1824)
 - 19 April — Hugh Smellie, steam locomotive engineer (born 1840)
 - 11 May — Alexander Beith, Free Church minister (born 1799)
 - 15 September — Sir John Steell, sculptor (born 1804)
 - 22 November — John Gregorson Campbell, folklorist and Free Church minister (born 1836)
 - 22 December — William Smith, architect (born 1817)
 
The Arts
- J. M. Barrie's novel The Little Minister is published.[4]
 - The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
 
See also
References
- ↑ "On this day". The Scotsman. 2013-04-30.
 - ↑ "Buffalo Bill". Dennistoun Conservation Society. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
 - ↑ She is lost at sea around late July 1892. "Maria Rickmers". 1998-04-27. Retrieved 2014-08-29.
 - ↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
 
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