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HOW IT WORKS
1902 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1902 in
Scotland
.
←
1901
1900
1899
1898
1897
1902
in
Scotland
→
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
Centuries:
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1902 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1901–02
•
1902–03
Incumbents
edit
Secretary for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Lord Balfour of Burleigh
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
5 April
– The original
Ibrox disaster
: a stand at
Ibrox Stadium
in
Glasgow
collapses during an England versus Scotland football match.
[1]
25 people die and 517 are injured.
29 July
–
St Lawrence's Church
opens.
15 October
– The
North British Hotel
in Edinburgh opens its doors for the first time.
[2]
2 November
– The first
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
, organised and led by naturalist
William Speirs Bruce
, sets out from
Troon
in the
Scotia
.
10 November
– Percival Spencer and the Rev. J. M. Bacon make the first-ever
hot air balloon
flight from the
Isle of Man
, landing in
Dumfriesshire
.
[3]
Pulteneytown merged into the
burgh
of
Wick
.
Births
edit
16 January
(in China) –
Eric Liddell
, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary (died 1945 in a Japanese-run internment camp in China)
26 March
–
Marion Cameron Gray
, mathematician (died
1979
)
[4]
27 March
–
Kenneth Macpherson
, cinematographer (died 1971 in
Tuscany
)
24 July
–
Renée Houston
, née Katherina Houston Gribbin, comedy actress (died
1980
)
19 August
–
Fyfe Robertson
, television presenter (died
1987
)
28 October
–
Jenny Gilbertson
, née Brown, documentary filmmaker (died
1990
)
Deaths
edit
20 February
–
David MacGibbon
, architect (born
1831
)
29 June
–
John Stuart McCaig
of Muckairn and Soroba, creator of
McCaig's Tower
,
Oban
(born
1823
)
16 July
–
Henry Dunning Macleod
, economist (born
1821
)
28 August
–
George Douglas Brown
, novelist (born
1869
)
29 September
–
William McGonagall
, weaver,
doggerel
poet and tragedian (born
1825
)
The arts
edit
First modern play in
Scottish Gaelic
staged, in Edinburgh.
[5]
The
Classical Association of Scotland
founded
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1902 in the United Kingdom
References
edit
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
^
"Chronology of Scottish History".
A Timeline of Scottish History
. Rampant Scotland
. Retrieved
1 September
2014
.
^
"Notable Dates in History".
The Flag in the Wind
.
The Scots Independent
. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014
. Retrieved
1 September
2014
.
^
Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009).
Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's
. American Mathematical Soc. p. 186.
ISBN
9780821843765
.
^
Watson, Moray; Macleod, Michelle (eds.).
The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language
. p. 38.