1881 in Scotland

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1881 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere
Scottish football: 1880–81 • 1881–82

Events from the year 1881 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – John McLaren until August; then John Blair Balfour
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – John Blair Balfour; then Alexander Asher

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

Events[]

  • 1 March – the Cunard Line's SS Servia, the first steel transatlantic liner, is launched at J. & G. Thomson's shipyard at Clydebank.[1]
  • 12 March – Andrew Watson of Glasgow's Queen's Park F.C. (from a mixed Scottish/British Guianese background) captains the Scotland national football team in a 6–1 victory against England, becoming the world's first black international Association football player.
  • 1 July – formation, under the Childers Reforms of the British Army, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Gordon Highlanders, Highland Light Infantry and Seaforth Highlanders.
  • 20/21 July – 58 men, the crews of ten fishing boats (mostly sixareens) from Yell, Shetland, are drowned in a sudden storm.
  • 25 August – Edinburgh Royal Review of Volunteers ("The Wet Review"): Large numbers of Volunteer Forces from all over Scotland parade before Queen Victoria in Holyrood Park on a day of prolonged heavy rainfall.
  • 14 October – the Eyemouth disaster ("Black Friday"): a severe storm strikes the Berwickshire coast; 189 fishermen die.[2]
  • 21 December – the Aberdeen Line's SS Aberdeen, the first oceangoing ship successfully powered by a triple expansion steam engine, designed by Alexander Carnegie Kirk, is launched at Robert Napier and Sons' yard at Govan.
  • The remains of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (died 1880), are stolen from the family crypt on the Dunecht estate.[3]
  • Memorial cairn erected at the site of the Battle of Culloden (1746).
  • Bruichladdich distillery established on the Rinns of Islay.
  • Clydebank Co-operative Society formed.
  • Inverness Museum and Art Gallery originally opened.
  • Fettesian-Lorettonian Club established as a joint sporting club of the two named Edinburgh public schools, primarily for the playing of rugby union.

Births[]

  • 29 March – Charles Jarvis, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1948)
  • 6 August – Alexander Fleming, biologist, pharmacologist and botanist (died 1955 in England)[4]
  • 2 November – Tom Johnston, socialist politician (died 1965)
  • 6 November – Alfred David McAlpine, civil engineering contractor (died 1944)
  • 1 December – Alastair Denniston, cryptanalyst (died 1961 in England)
  • 25 December – Willie Gallacher, trade unionist and communist MP (died 1965)

Deaths[]

  • 22 August – John Hill Burton, advocate, historian and economist (born 1809)
  • 30 October – William Brodie, sculptor (born 1815)
  • 31 October – Alexander Macdonald, miner, trade unionist and Lib–Lab MP (born 1821)

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1881 in the United Kingdom

References[]

  1. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 434–435. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. ^ Aitchison, Peter (2001). Children of the Sea: the story of the Eyemouth disaster. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. ISBN 1-86232-240-6.
  3. ^ Roughead, William (1913). "The Dunecht Mystery". Twelve Scots Trials. Edinburgh: W. Green & Sons. pp. 248–272. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Alexander Fleming | Biography, Education, Discovery, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
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