1886 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1886 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1885–86 • 1886–87 |
Events from the year 1886 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
- Monarch — Victoria
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — The Duke of Richmond to 28 January; then George Trevelyan to March; then The Earl of Dalhousie 5 April – 20 July; then Arthur Balfour from 5 August
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — John Macdonald until February; then John Blair Balfour until August; then John Macdonald
- Solicitor General for Scotland — James Robertson
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Moncreiff
Events
- 15 March — Glasgow City and District Railway, running chiefly in "cut and cover" tunnel, opens.[1]
- 5 April — The Great North of Scotland Railway opens its line through Garmouth, Moray, including its Speymouth viaduct over the River Spey with a 350 ft (105 m) main span which is the longest wrought iron arch bridge in Britain.
- 6 May — International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art opens in The Meadows, Edinburgh. Exhibits include an "Old Edinburgh Street" and displays related to Scotch whisky; Neilson and Company of Glasgow exhibit the Caledonian Railway Single steam locomotive.
- 17 May — Motherwell F.C. founded.
- 25 June — Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act grants security of tenure to crofters.[2]
- 1–27 July — In the general election, radical socialist R. B. Cunninghame Graham, standing as a Liberal, wins the North West Lanarkshire seat from the Unionists.
- September — Lieutenant William Henn, R.N. of the Royal Northern Yacht Club with Galatea challenges unsuccessfully for the America's Cup in New York Harbor.
- 6 December — The steel-hulled full-rigged ship Balclutha is launched at Charles Connell and Company's yard at Scotstoun for Robert McMillan of Dumbarton. In 1954 she will be laid up as a museum ship in San Francisco.
- The paddle steamers Tewfik and Prince Abbas are built at the newly-renamed Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at Govan, the first purpose-built boats for Thomas Cook & Son's Nile service.
- Burmah Oil founded as the Rangoon Oil Company in Glasgow by David Sime Cargill.
- Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women founded by Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake.
Births
- 21 April — Jimmy Gold, comedian (died 1967)
- 15 May — Helen Cruickshank, poet, suffragette and nationalist (died 1975)
- 23 July — Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator (died 1948 in Wales)
- 1 October — Walter Lyon, lawyer and poet (killed in action 1915)
Deaths
- 17 July — David Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1815)
- 20 August — John Small, librarian and scholar (born 1828)
- 26 August — Robert Eden, first Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (born 1804 in England)
The Arts
- Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and historical fiction Kidnapped are both first published.
- Mathilde Blind composes the poem "The Heather on Fire".
See also
References
- ↑ "Glasgow City and District Railway". Railscot. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ↑ "The Crofters Land Act passed — 1886". Scotland's History. BBC. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
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