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1883 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1883 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Victoria

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — John Blair Balfour
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — Alexander Asher

    • Judiciary

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

    • Events

  • 28 April — The first rugby sevens tournament is played at Melrose RFC.
  • 3 June — Sabbatarian riot at Stromeferry: the local fishing community prevent the loading of fish (caught by east coast fishermen) from Stornoway ships to railway on a Sunday.
  • 3 July — The SS Daphne sinks on launch at Alexander Stephen and Sons' Linthouse shipyard, leaving 124 dead.
  • 29 August — Dunfermline Carnegie Library, the first Carnegie library is opened in Andrew Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline.
  • 4 October — The Boys' Brigade is founded in Glasgow.
  • November–December — The Tay Whale (a humpback) appears in the Firth of Tay; on 31 December it is harpooned but escapes, dying later.
  • Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank at Dumbarton completed.
  • Edinburgh Mathematical Society founded.

    • Births

  • 17 January — Compton Mackenzie, author and co-founder in 1928 of the Scottish National Party (born in England; died 1972)
  • 27 January — James Lithgow, industrialist (died 1952)
  • 12 April — Francis Cadell, Colourist painter (died 1937)
  • 9 July — John Watson, advocate and sheriff, Solicitor General for Scotland 1929–31 (died 1944)
  • 21 August — Victor Fortune, British Army officer (died 1949)
  • 17 October — A. S. Neill, educationalist (died 1973 in England)

    • Deaths

  • 27 March — John Brown, royal servant (born 1826)
  • 8 May — John Miller, civil engineer (born 1805)
  • 20 May — William Chambers, publisher and politician (born 1800)
  • 2 July — John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (born 1810)
  • 9 August — Robert Moffat, missionary (born 1795)
  • David Rhind, architect (born 1808)

    • The Arts

  • James Guthrie paints A Hind's Daughter and To Pastures New.

    • References

    1883 in Scotland Wikipedia
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