1884 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1884 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
Events
- 26 January – Scotland beat Ireland 5-0 in the first match of the first British Home Championship in Association football.[1]
- 28 April – Napier Commission delivers the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry Into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.[2]
- Rothesay, Bute.[3]
- Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh,[4]during which an electric railway is demonstrated.
- 17 July – Barque Vicksburg of Leith goes aground on Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Skerries with the loss of nine lives; twelve are saved by the island's lighthouse keepers.[5]
- Autumn – Origin of St Johnstone F.C. in Perth.
- 2 November – Fourteen people are killed when some of the audience at the Star Theatre, Glasgow, panic following a false fire alarm.[6]
- 18 November – Crofters War: Royal Marines and police arrive in naval ships at Uig, Skye, following an unsuccessful attempt to evict tenants engaging in a rent strike against Major William Fraser, owner of the Kilmuir Estate and Uig Tower.[8]
- 1 December – Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railwayopens to passengers.
- blended whiskyregistered.
Births
- 11 February – Joseph Westwood, Labour MP (1922–31 and 1935–48) and Secretary of State for Scotland (1945–1947) (died 1948)
- William Theodore Heard, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church (died 1973 in Rome)
- 22 May – Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, suffragist and feminist (died 1957 in England)[9]
- Peter Fraser, Labour prime minister of New Zealand (1940–1949) (died 1950 in New Zealand)
Deaths
- hypodermic syringe (born 1817)
- 30 November – Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, Principal of the University of Edinburgh (born 1826 in the United States)
- 20 December – William Lindsay Alexander, church leader (born 1808)
- Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder (born 1813)
The arts
- Publication of Songs of the North by Harold Boulton and Anne MacLeod including the first known version of "The Skye Boat Song".
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Scotland International Matches 1872 to 1899". MyFootballFacts. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ "The Napier Commission". University of the Highlands and Islands. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ^ "The Opening of the New Waiting Rooms on the Pier". Rothesay Chronicle. 14 June 1884. p. 3.
- ^ "The Forestry Exhibition". The Morning Post. London. 2 July 1884. p. 3.
- ^ "Pentland Skerries". Lighthouse Library. Edinburgh: Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 November 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ^ "Terrible Panic in a Glasgow Theatre". The Cornishman. No. 329. 6 November 1884. p. 7.
- ^ "The purchase of the Blackford Hill". Edinburgh Evening News. 1 October 1884. p. 2.
- ^ "Local history". Uig - Isle of Skye. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
- ISBN 9781474436281.