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1888 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1888 in Scotland.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch — Victoria
  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — The Marquess of Lothian

    • Law officers

  • Lord Advocate — John Macdonald until October; then James Robertson
  • Solicitor General for Scotland — James Robertson; then Moir Tod Stormonth Darling

    • Judiciary

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

    • Events

  • 9 January — Crofters War: Aignish riot - Dispossessed crofters on Lewis face armed troops.
  • 15 March — Transatlantic liner SS City of New York is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank.
  • May–November — International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry at Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow.
  • July–August — First "Race to the North": Operators of the West and East Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Edinburgh.
  • 28 May — Celtic Football Club play their first official match, beating Rangers 5–2 in Glasgow.
  • 25 August — First Scottish Labour Party founded.
  • Lancashire textile machinery manufacturer John Bullough purchases the isle of Rùm.
  • Stock exchange opened at Greenock.
  • Completion of first stage of Royal Museum in Edinburgh.
  • Opening of Carstairs House Tramway, a private railway powered by hydroelectricity and the first electric railway in Scotland.
  • First International Forestry Exhibition opens in Edinburgh.

    • Births

  • 3 January — James Bridie (O. H. Mavor), playwright (died 1951)
  • 13 February — Andrew Dewar Gibb, lawyer and Scottish National Party politician (died 1974)
  • 8 March — John Nicholson, footballer (died 1970 in England)
  • 19 April — Walter Elliot, Unionist politician (died 1958)
  • 6 June — Scottie Wilson, né Louis Freeman, artist (died 1972 in England)
  • 7 July — Edith Hughes, née Burnet, architect (died 1971)
  • 14 August — John Logie Baird, engineer and inventor (died 1946)
  • 5 September — Jack Miles, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia (died 1969 in Australia)
  • 7 October — Cecil Coles, composer (killed in action 1918)
  • Approximate date — Alexander MacRae, clothing manufacturer (died 1938 in Australia)

    • Deaths

  • May — James Salmon, architect (born 1805)
  • 30 May — William Hay, architect (born 1818)
  • 4 August — Lord Douglas Gordon, Liberal MP (born 1851)

    • The Arts

  • J. M. Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls is published.

    • References

    1888 in Scotland Wikipedia
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