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HOW IT WORKS
1889 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1889 in
Scotland
.
←
1888
1887
1886
1885
1884
1889
in
Scotland
→
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1889 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1888–89
•
1889–90
Incumbents
edit
Secretary for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
The Marquess of Lothian
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
James Robertson
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Moir Tod Stormonth Darling
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Glencorse
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Kingsburgh
Events
edit
26 January
–
Dundee
is granted
city status in the United Kingdom
by
letters patent
.
[1]
[2]
[3]
5 February
– the first issue of
Glasgow University Magazine
is published.
11 March
–
baby farmer
Jessie King is the last woman to be
hanged
in Edinburgh, for
infanticide
.
24 April
–
William Henry Bury
is hanged in
Dundee
for
uxoricide
.
15 July
– the
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
opens in
Edinburgh
in premises designed by
Rowand Anderson
, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a
portrait
gallery.
[4]
26 August
– the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889
, receives
royal assent
. School fees abolished for compulsory education.
5 September
–
Mauricewood Colliery disaster
: a fire at the pit near
Penicuik
kills 63 of the 70 men and boys working underground.
[5]
1 November
– new building under construction at
Templeton's Carpet Factory
on
Glasgow Green
collapses killing 29 women in adjacent weaving sheds.
November -
King's Cross Hospital
opens in Dundee.
[6]
Births
edit
7 January
–
George Samson
, sailor, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
(died at sea 1923)
30 May
–
Isobel Wylie Hutchison
, explorer (died
1982
)
20 July
–
John Reith
, broadcasting executive (died
1971
)
11 August
–
Ronald Fairbairn
, psychoanalyst (died
1964
)
25 September
–
Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff
, writer (died
1930
)
1 December
–
Alexander Keiller
, marmalade manufacturer and archaeologist (died
1955
)
John Munro
(Iain Rothach),
Gaelic
poet (killed in action 1918)
Deaths
edit
31 May
–
Horatius Bonar
, churchman, writer and hymnodist (born
1808
)
24 December
–
Charles Mackay
, poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist and songwriter (born
1812
)
The arts
edit
Arthur Conan Doyle
's novel
The Mystery of Cloomber
is published.
Robert Louis Stevenson
's novel
The Master of Ballantrae
is published.
The Great Scottish National Panorama (Battle of Bannockburn) is opened in
Sauchiehall Street
, Glasgow.
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1889 in Ireland
References
edit
^
"Dundee – Scotland's First City?".
The Dundee City Archives Blog
. 24 January 2019
. Retrieved
21 January
2022
.
^
"Calling all history buffs: Dundee is actually the oldest city in Scotland - here's why".
SeeDundee
. 28 January 2019
. Retrieved
21 January
2022
.
^
Milne, Scott. "Dundee is Scotland's oldest city — and here's why".
The Courier
. Retrieved
21 January
2022
.
^
"The Scottish National Portrait Gallery".
The Times
. No. 32752. London. 16 July 1889. p. 5.
^
"Mauricewood 1889".
Scottish Mining Website
. Retrieved
21 May
2021
.
^
"Collection THB 22 - King's Cross Hospital".
Archive Services Catalogue
. University of Dundee
. Retrieved
13 December
2023
.