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1894 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1894 in
Scotland
.
←
1893
1892
1891
1890
1889
1894
in
Scotland
→
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1894 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1893–94
•
1894–95
Incumbents
edit
Secretary for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Sir George Trevelyan, Bt
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
John Blair Balfour
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Alexander Asher
; then
Thomas Shaw
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Robertson
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Kingsburgh
Events
edit
5 July
– racing
cutter
Valkyrie II
(1893) collides with
Satanita
on the
Firth of Clyde
and sinks, with one fatality.
[1]
11 July
– rebuilt
St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh
, dedicated.
July –
Marion Gilchrist
becomes the first woman to graduate from the
University of Glasgow
and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university.
7 August
– the
West Highland Railway
, operated by the
North British Railway
, is publicly opened to
Fort William
.
[2]
25 August
–
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894
receives the
Royal Assent
. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.
December –
Longmorn distillery
begins production.
Lady Victoria Colliery
comes into production at
Newtongrange
,
Midlothian
.
McVitie's
biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt.
Elsie Inglis
sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh.
Craigholme School
founded by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as
Pollokshields
Ladies' School.
Alyth
golf course laid out by
Old Tom Morris
.
Marion Adams-Acton
publishes
Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history
.
Births
edit
26 March
–
Alexander Thom
,
aerodynamicist
and
archaeoastronomer
(died
1985
)
13 May
–
Joe Corrie
, miner, poet and playwright (died
1968
)
28 June
–
Allardyce Nicoll
, literary scholar (died 1976 in England)
29 June
–
David Steele
, international footballer and manager (died
1964
)
14 October
–
Victoria Drummond
, marine engineer (died 1978 in England)
Jimmy MacBeath
, folk singer (died
1972
)
R. M. Smyllie
, journalist (died
1954 in Ireland
)
Deaths
edit
3 September
–
John Veitch
, poet, philosopher and historian (born
1829
)
3 December
–
Robert Louis Stevenson
, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born
1850
; dies on
Samoa
)
[3]
The arts
edit
Ian Maclaren
's stories
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
are published.
[4]
Robert Fuller Murray
(born
1863 in the United States
) dies;
Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir
is published posthumously edited by
Andrew Lang
.
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1894 in Ireland
References
edit
^
"The Yacht Valkyrie sunk"
(pdf)
.
The New York Times
. 6 July 1894
. Retrieved
22 April
2012
.
^
Thomas, John (1965).
The West Highland Railway
. Dawlish: David & Charles.
^
"Robert Louis Stevenson".
BBC
. Retrieved
27 May
2013
.
^
Sutherland, John
(2007).
Bestsellers: a very short introduction
. Oxford University Press. p. 85.
ISBN
978-0-19-921489-1
.