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1905 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1905 in
Scotland
.
←
1904
1903
1902
1901
1900
1905
in
Scotland
→
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
Centuries:
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1880s
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1905 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Scottish football:
1904–05
•
1905–06
Incumbents
edit
Secretary for Scotland
and
Keeper of the Great Seal
–
Andrew Murray
until 2 February; then
The Marquess of Linlithgow
until 4 December; then
John Sinclair
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Charles Dickson
until December; then
Thomas Shaw
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
David Dundas
; then
Edward Theodore Salvesen
; then
James Avon Clyde
; then
Alexander Ure
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Blair Balfour
until 22 January; then from 4 February
Lord Dunedin
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Kingsburgh
Events
edit
January –
Strathaven Academy
opens.
28 September
–
Talla Reservoir
officially opened to serve the
Edinburgh
district after 10 years of construction (supply begins May).
31 October
–
Perth Corporation Tramways
commence electric operation.
18 November
– First
rugby
match between
New Zealand
and
Scotland
, played at
Murrayfield
.
19 November
– 39 men are killed in a fire at a model lodging house in Watson Street,
Glasgow
.
[1]
[2]
St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee
, raised to cathedral status in the Episcopal Church.
David Couper Thomson
sets up the
Dundee
publisher
D. C. Thomson & Co.
Scottish Motor Traction
is set up in Edinburgh as a motor bus operator.
Victoria Bridge, Mar Lodge Estate
, erected.
Approximate date – the earliest
Rolls-Royce 10 hp
car to survive into the 21st century is acquired by Kenneth Gillies of
Tain
; it remains in Scotland until the time of World War I.
[3]
Births
edit
6 April
–
Johnny Ramensky
, career criminal, employed as a
commando
for his
safe-cracking
abilities (died
1972
)
19 April
–
Jim Mollison
, aviator (died
1959
)
12 May
–
Alex Jackson
, international footballer (died
1946
)
12 July
–
John Maxwell
,
landscape painter
(died
1962
)
19 July
–
Robert Hurd
, influential conservation architect (died 1963)
20 August
–
Duncan Macrae
, actor (died
1967
)
6 September
–
William McEwan Younger
, brewer and
Unionist
politician (died 1992 in England)
4 October
–
Leslie Mitchell
, announcer (died 1985 in London)
9 December
–
Janet Adam Smith
, writer and mountaineer (died
1999
)
Norman Cameron
,
poet
(born in Bombay; died 1953 in London)
Fred Hartley
, light music composer and conductor (died
1980
)
Deaths
edit
21 January
–
Robert Brough
, painter, died in a railway disaster (born
1872
)
5 August
–
Alexander Asher
, Liberal politician and
Solicitor General for Scotland
(born
1834
)
16 August
–
Jamie Anderson
, golfer (born
1842
)
22 August
–
David Binning Monro
,
Homeric
scholar (born
1836
)
18 September
–
George MacDonald
, author, poet and Christian minister (born
1844
)
8 October
–
Allan MacDonald
, Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (born
1859
)
27 October
–
Ralph Copeland
,
Astronomer Royal for Scotland
(born 1837 in England)
7 November
–
Lady Florence Caroline Dixie
, traveller,
war correspondent
, writer and
feminist
(born
1855
)
12 December
–
William Sharp
, poet and literary biographer (born
1855
)
The arts
edit
16 January
–
Neil Munro
begins publishing his
Vital Spark
stories in the
Glasgow Evening News
.
Harry Lauder
writes the popular song "I Love a Lassie".
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1905 in Ireland
References
edit
^
Cross, William (2005).
Death in a Lodging House
.
ISBN
0-9528575-8-8
.
^
"BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Grenfell Tower and Watson Street fire tragedies".
BBC
. Retrieved
1 June
2021
.
^
Skilbeck, Stewart (2007). "1904 10hp 20154: U44: The world's oldest surviving Rolls-Royce". Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts' Club
. Retrieved
4 February
2016
.