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HOW IT WORKS
1901 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1901 in
Scotland
.
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1900
1899
1898
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1901
in
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1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
Centuries:
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Decades:
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1901 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1900–01
•
1901–02
Incumbents
edit
Secretary for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Glenfinnan Viaduct
on the
Mallaig Extension Railway
, built by
"Concrete Bob" McAlpine
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Andrew Murray
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Charles Dickson
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Blair Balfour
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Kingsburgh
Events
edit
21 March
– SY
Discovery
(later named
RRS
Discovery
) is formally launched in
Dundee
.
31 March
–
National census
. 26% of the Scottish population live in Glasgow or Edinburgh.
1 April
– the
West Highland Railway
's
Mallaig Extension Railway
, operated by the
North British Railway
, is opened throughout to
Mallaig
on the west coast.
[1]
16 May
–
TS
King Edward
is launched at
William Denny and Brothers
' shipyard in
Dumbarton
. The first commercial merchant vessel propelled by
steam turbines
, she enters excursion service on the
Firth of Clyde
on 1 July.
2 May
–
4 November
:
Glasgow International Exhibition
.
[2]
6 June
–
Discovery
leaves
Dundee
for London in preparation for its expedition south.
26 September
–
Ayr Corporation Tramways
begin operation.
The last resident family leaves the
Shiant Isles
for
Harris
.
W. M. Gilbert's
Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century
introduces the term "
Royal Mile
".
The
Scottish Prohibition Party
is founded.
The carbonated soft drink
Irn-Bru
is first produced as
Iron Brew
by
A.G. Barr
in
Falkirk
.
[3]
Births
edit
TS
King Edward
on trials
13 February
–
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
, writer (died
1935
)
15 February
–
Murdo Macfarlane
, Gaelic bard (died
1982
)
3 April
–
Charles Finnigan
, dental surgeon, Honorary Dental Surgeon to
Queen Elizabeth
(died
1967
)
18 May
–
Isabella Gordon
,
carcinologist
(died 1988 in
Carlisle
)
29 June
–
Frieda Inescort
, actress (died 1976 in
Los Angeles
)
17 August
–
Malcolm MacDonald
, politician and diplomat (died in 1981 in
Maidstone
)
29 August
–
Anna Zinkeisen
, artist (died 1976 in London)
1 September
–
John Bannerman, Baron Bannerman of Kildonan
, farmer, rugby union international and Liberal politician (died 1969 in England)
22 September
–
George McKenzie
,
bantamweight
boxer (died
1941
)
24 October
–
Moultrie Kelsall
, actor (died
1980
)
1 December
–
Jane Gray
,
supercentenarian
in Australia
11 December
–
Dave Halliday
, footballer (died
1970
)
13 December
–
Arthur Donaldson
, leader of the
Scottish National Party
from 1960 to 1969 (died
1993
)
Cezaro Rossetti
,
Esperanto
writer (died 1950)
Deaths
edit
15 January
–
John Burnet
, architect (born
1814
)
12 February
–
John Burns, 1st Baron Inverclyde
, ship owner, chairman of the
Cunard Line
(born
1829
)
19 February
–
Duncan Cameron
, owner of
The Oban Times
,
inventor of the
Waverley Pen
, (born
1825
)
8 April
–
James Chalmers
, missionary, murdered on
Goaribari Island
(born
1841
)
12 April
–
Richard Henry Brunton
, "
Father of
Japanese
lighthouses
" (born
1841
)
10 May
–
Christian Maclagan
, antiquary (born
1811
)
4 July
–
Peter Guthrie Tait
,
mathematical physicist
(born
1831
)
26 December
–
Sir Joseph Noel Paton
, artist (born
1821
)
The arts
edit
George Douglas Brown
's
realist novel
The House with the Green Shutters
is published under the name George Douglas.
John Davidson
, poet, publishes
The Testament of a Vivisector
and
The Testament of a Man Forbid
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1901 in Ireland
References
edit
^
Thomas, John (1965).
The West Highland Railway
. Dawlish: David & Charles.
ISBN
978-0-946537-22-8
.
^
"Glasgow International Exhibition - 1901". Exhibition Study Group. 5 May 2002. Archived from the original on 20 August 2010
. Retrieved
25 May
2013
.
^
"History". A.G. Barr Plc. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012
. Retrieved
22 February
2014
.