1888 in Scotland

← 1887 1886 1885 1884 1883 1888 in Scotland → 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1888 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1887–88 • 1888–89

Events from the year 1888 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian

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

Judiciary

• 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.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 24 September – Stock exchange opened at Greenock.^[4]
• 15 October – Dundee Institute of Technology, predecessor of Abertay University
  , opens.
• c. December – completion of first stage of Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art.
• Lancashire textile machinery manufacturer John Bullough purchases the isle of Rùm.
• Opening of
  electric railway
  in Scotland.

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 June – Hilda Matheson
  , pioneering radio talks producer, born in London (died 1940 in England)
• 7 July – Edith Hughes, née Burnet, architect (died 1971
  )
• 14 August – John Logie Baird, engineer and inventor (died 1946)^[5]
• 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

• 10 January – James Campbell Walker, Scottish architect (born 1821
  )
• May –
  James Salmon, architect (born 1805
  )
• 30 May – William Hay, architect (born 1818
  )
• 4 August – Lord Douglas Gordon, Liberal MP (born 1851
  )

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

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1888 in Ireland

References