1888 in Scotland
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See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1888 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1887–88 • 1888–89 |
Events from the year 1888 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]- Lord Advocate – John Macdonald until October; then James Robertson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – James Robertson; then Moir Tod Stormonth Darling
Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff, then Lord Kingsburgh
Events
[edit]- 9 January – Crofters War: Aignish riot – Dispossessed crofters on Lewis face armed troops.[1]
- 15 March – transatlantic 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 May – Celtic Football Club play their first official match, beating Rangers 5–2 in Glasgow.
- 25 August – first Scottish Labour Party founded.[3]
- 24 September – Stock 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
[edit]- 3 January – James Bridie (O. H. Mavor), playwright (died 1951)
- 13 February – Andrew Dewar Gibb, lawyer and Scottish National Party politician (died 1974)
- 8 March – John Nicholson, footballer (died 1970 in England)
- 19 April – Walter Elliot, Unionist politician (died 1958)
- 6 June – Scottie Wilson, né Louis Freeman, artist (died 1972 in England)
- 7 June – Hilda Matheson, pioneering radio talks producer, born in London (died 1940 in England)
- 7 July – Edith Hughes, née Burnet, architect (died 1971)
- 14 August – John Logie Baird, engineer and inventor (died 1946)[5]
- 5 September – Jack Miles, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia (died 1969 in Australia)
- 7 October – Cecil Coles, composer (killed in action 1918)
- Approximate date – Alexander MacRae, clothing manufacturer (died 1938 in Australia)
Deaths
[edit]- 10 January – James Campbell Walker, Scottish architect (born 1821)
- May – James Salmon, architect (born 1805)
- 30 May – William Hay, architect (born 1818)
- 4 August – Lord Douglas Gordon, Liberal MP (born 1851)
Art
[edit]J. M. Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls is published.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Land Struggle 2: Aignish". The Croft. 27 June 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
- ^ Kinghorn, Jonathon (1988). Glasgow's International Exhibition, 1888. Glasgow Museums & Art Galleries. ISBN 978-0-902752-36-8.
- ^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 90.
- ^ "The Opening of Greenock Stock Exchange". Glasgow Herald. 25 September 1888. p. 3.
- ^ "John Logie Baird (1888–1946)". BBC. Retrieved 2 June 2013.