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1876 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1876 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Victoria

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — Edward Strathearn Gordon until July; then William Watson
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — William Watson; then John Macdonald

    • Judiciary

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Glencorse
  • Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Moncreiff

    • Events

  • 14 February — Alexander Graham Bell files a patent for the telephone in the United States.
  • 19 February — Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match.
  • 5 April — River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster: 32 drown.
  • 18 June — Promenade on the roof of Waverley Market opens in Edinburgh.
  • 17 October — St Enoch railway station officially opens in Glasgow.
  • 3 November — McLean Museum opens in Greenock.
  • William Forbes Skene's Celtic Scotland: a History of Ancient Alban begins publication in Edinburgh.
  • Camp Coffee is first produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow.

    • Births

  • 23 March — Muirhead Bone, etcher (died 1953)
  • 19 June — Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer (died 1941)
  • 6 September — John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
  • 3 October — Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (died 1967)
  • 4 November — Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name (died 1951)
  • 7 November — Alex Smith, international footballer (died 1954)
  • 17 December — Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian (died 1947)
  • Joseph Lee, poet and journalist (died 1949)

    • Deaths

  • 9 January — Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (born 1843)
  • 22 January — Sir George Harvey, genre painter (born 1806)
  • 3 February — Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (born 1813)
  • 24 April — Henry Dübs, steam locomotive manufacturer (born 1816 in Germany)
  • 7 May — David Bryce, architect (born 1803)
  • 23 June — Robert Napier, engineer, "Father of Clyde Shipbuilding" (born 1791)
  • 23 December — Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves, judge and poet (born 1800)

    • References

    1876 in Scotland Wikipedia
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