1888 in Scotland

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1888
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1888 in: The UKWalesElsewhere
Scottish football: 1887–881888–89

Events from the year 1888 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great SealThe Marquess of Lothian

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateJohn Macdonald until October; then James Robertson
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandJames Robertson; then Moir Tod Stormonth Darling

Judiciary[]

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

Events[]

  • 9 January – Crofters War: Aignish riot – Dispossessed crofters on Lewis face armed troops.[1]
  • 15 Marchtransatlantic liner SS City of New York is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank.
  • May–November – International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry at Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow.[2]
  • July–August – first "Race to the North": Operators of the West and East Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Edinburgh.
  • 28 MayCeltic Football Club play their first official match, beating Rangers 5–2 in Glasgow.
  • 25 August – first Scottish Labour Party founded.[3]
  • 24 SeptemberStock exchange opened at Greenock.[4]
  • 15 October – Dundee Institute of Technology, predecessor of Abertay University, opens.
  • c. December – completion of first stage of Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art.
  • Lancashire textile machinery manufacturer John Bullough purchases the isle of Rùm.
  • Opening of Carstairs House Tramway, a private railway powered by hydroelectricity and the first permanent electric railway in Scotland.

Births[]

  • 3 JanuaryJames Bridie (O. H. Mavor), playwright (died 1951)
  • 13 FebruaryAndrew Dewar Gibb, lawyer and Scottish National Party politician (died 1974)
  • 8 MarchJohn Nicholson, footballer (died 1970 in England)
  • 19 AprilWalter Elliot, Unionist politician (died 1958)
  • 6 JuneScottie Wilson, né Louis Freeman, artist (died 1972 in England)
  • 7 JuneHilda Matheson, pioneering radio talks producer, born in London (died 1940 in England)
  • 7 JulyEdith Hughes, née Burnet, architect (died 1971)
  • 14 AugustJohn Logie Baird, engineer and inventor (died 1946)[5]
  • 5 SeptemberJack Miles, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia (died 1969 in Australia)
  • 7 OctoberCecil Coles, composer (killed in action 1918)
  • Approximate date – Alexander MacRae, clothing manufacturer (died 1938 in Australia)

Deaths[]

  • 10 JanuaryJames Campbell Walker, Scottish architect (born 1821)
  • May – James Salmon, architect (born 1805)
  • 30 MayWilliam Hay, architect (born 1818)
  • 4 AugustLord Douglas Gordon, Liberal MP (born 1851)

The arts[]

  • J. M. Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls is published.

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1888 in the United Kingdom

References[]

  1. ^ "Land Struggle 2: Aignish". The Croft. 27 June 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  2. ^ Kinghorn, Jonathon (1988). Glasgow's International Exhibition, 1888. Glasgow Museums & Art Galleries. ISBN 978-0-902752-36-8.
  3. ^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 90.
  4. ^ "The Opening of Greenock Stock Exchange". Glasgow Herald. 25 September 1888. p. 3.
  5. ^ "John Logie Baird (1888–1946)". BBC. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
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