1899_in_Scotland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1899 in Scotland.

Incumbents edit

March – supposed last duel in Scotland, fought with swords in the University of Glasgow over the appointment of a Rector, perhaps a student hoax.^[1]
13 March – Japanese battleship Asahi launched by John Brown & Company, Clydebank.
16 June – Penicuik House gutted by fire.
July – Norman Heathcote climbs the St Kilda sea stack Stac Lee with his sister Evelyn.^[2]
November – English occultist Aleister Crowley purchases Boleskine House near Foyers on the shore of Loch Ness from the Fraser family, occupying it until 1913.
7 December – Flannan Isles Lighthouse first lit.
15 December – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.^[3]
30 December – the Albion Motor Car Company is set up in Glasgow; and the first Argyll car is also produced this year.
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, presents Iona Abbey and other sacred sites of the island of Iona to the Iona Cathedral Trust (linked to the Church of Scotland).^[4]
First Skerries Bridge, linking Bruray to Housay in the Out Skerries, is built.

24 June – Bruce Marshall, writer (died 1987 in France)
21 July – David Broadfoot, seaman awarded the George Cross for his role during the sinking of MV Princess Victoria (died 1959)
8 October – Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan, civil engineer (died 1985 in England)

6 June – Robert Wallace, classics teacher, minister, university professor, newspaper editor, barrister and Member of Parliament (born 1831)
14 September – William Watson, Baron Watson, former Lord Advocate (born 1827)

^ "Hit and myth: Was Scotland's last duel a joke?". The Scotsman. 21 February 2004. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
^ Described in his book St Kilda (1900).
^ "Congratulations to the Glasgow School of Art as they celebrate 100th anniversary of the Mackintosh Building". Museums Galleries Scotland. 15 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 February 2010. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
^ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. pp. 80–84. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.