1875 in Scotland

← 1874 1873 1872 1871 1870 1875 in Scotland → 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1875 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1874–75 • 1875–76

Events from the year 1875 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Edward Strathearn Gordon
• Solicitor General for Scotland – William Watson

Judiciary

• Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

Events

• 9 March – the Advocates Library
  in Edinburgh suffers a serious fire.
• 6 August – Hibernian F.C. is founded by Irishmen in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh.^[1]
• 16 September – first patients admitted to Barony Parochial Asylum at Lenzie
  (official opening 22 October).
• 17 November – the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club established in a meeting at the Fleece Hotel, Selkirk.^[2]
• 8 December – Inverness Field Club
  is established.
• 25 December – the first Edinburgh derby in Association football is played: Heart of Midlothian F.C. win 1–0 against Hibernian F.C.
• Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland
  is established as the world's oldest professional banking institution.
• The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, predecessor of Queen Margaret University, is founded by Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson of the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association.^[3]
• Longmore House is opened as a hospital by the Edinburgh Association for the Relief of Incurables.
• The Aberdeen, Leith & Clyde Shipping Company is renamed as the North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Company.

Births

• 20 February – Mary Barbour, née Rough, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (died 1958
  )
• 20 March – Jessie M. King, illustrator and designer (died 1949
  )
• 26 July – Daniel Laidlaw, piper and recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1950 in Northumberland
  )
• 11 August – Percy Erskine Nobbs, Arts and Crafts architect in Canada (died 1964
  )
• 26 August – John Buchan, novelist, historian, Unionist politician and Governor General of Canada (died 1940 in Canada
  )
• Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1934–38 (died 1938)

Deaths

• 22 March – Alexander Thomson, classical architect (born 1817
  )
• Open Championship (born 1851; official cause of death is "heart attack")^[4]
• James McLevy, detective (born 1796 in Ireland)

The arts

• Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; he will be the model for Long John Silver. Henley has also met his future wife while in hospital and written the poems collected as In Hospital.^[5]
  In July Stevenson qualifies as an advocate, but never practices.

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1875 in Ireland

References