1873 in Scotland

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1873
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1873 in: The UKWalesElsewhere
Scottish football: 1872–731873–74

Events from the year 1873 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateGeorge Young
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandAndrew Rutherfurd-Clark

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice GeneralLord Glencorse
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Moncreiff

Events[]

  • March – Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company (co-founded with William Menzies)
  • 3 March – the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union
  • 13 March – the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association[1]
  • 15 November – statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh[2]
  • Edinburgh Evening News first published
  • Lexicographer James Murray publishes Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland
  • George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecessor of the Weir Group, to Glasgow[3]

Births[]

  • 8 AprilJames Drever, psychologist (died 1950)
  • 13 AprilJames Salmon, architect (died 1924)
  • 6 JulyGeorge Aitken Clark Hutchison, Scottish Unionist MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern (1922–23, 1924–28) (died 1928)

Deaths[]

  • 24 FebruaryThomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist (born 1803)
  • 8 MarchRobert William Thomson, engineer, inventor of the bicycle tyre (born 1822)
  • 1 MayDavid Livingstone, pioneer medical missionary (born 1813)
  • 2 OctoberJohn Cunningham, architect (died 1799)
  • 27 OctoberJanet Hamilton, poet (born 1795)
  • Hugh Fraser, retailer (born 1815)

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1873 in the United Kingdom

References[]

  1. ^ "The Cup". Scottish FA. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Greyfriars Bobby". Edinburgh Museums & Galleries. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  3. ^ Weir, William (2008). The Weir Group: the history of a Scottish engineering legend, 1872-2008. London: Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-86197-886-8.
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