1901 in Scotland
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See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1901 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1900–01 • 1901–02 |
Events from the year 1901 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord Justice General – Lord Blair Balfour
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- 21 March – SY Discovery (later named RRS Discovery) is formally launched in Dundee.
- National census. 26% of the Scottish population live in Glasgow or Edinburgh.
- 1 April – the West Highland Railway's Mallaig Extension Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is opened throughout to Mallaig on the west coast.[1]
- 16 May – TS King Edward is launched at William Denny and Brothers' shipyard in Dumbarton. The first commercial merchant vessel propelled by steam turbines, she enters excursion service on the Firth of Clydeon 1 July.
- 4 November: Glasgow International Exhibition.[2]
- 6 June – Discovery leaves Dundeefor London in preparation for its expedition south.
- 26 September – Ayr Corporation Tramwaysbegin operation.
- The last resident family leaves the Harris.
- W. M. Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century introduces the term "Royal Mile".
- The Scottish Prohibition Party is founded.
- The carbonated soft drink Irn-Bru is first produced as Iron Brew by A.G. Barr in Falkirk.[3]
Births
- 13 February – Lewis Grassic Gibbon, writer (died 1935)
- 15 February – Murdo Macfarlane, Gaelic bard (died 1982)
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- 29 June – Frieda Inescort, actress (died 1976 in Los Angeles)
- 17 August – Malcolm MacDonald, politician and diplomat (died in 1981 in Maidstone)
- 29 August – Anna Zinkeisen, artist (died 1976 in London)
- 1 September – John Bannerman, Baron Bannerman of Kildonan, farmer, rugby union international and Liberal politician (died 1969 in England)
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- 24 October – Moultrie Kelsall, actor (died 1980)
- Jane Gray, supercentenarianin Australia
- 11 December – Dave Halliday, footballer (died 1970)
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- Cezaro Rossetti, Esperanto writer (died 1950)
Deaths
- 15 January – John Burnet, architect (born 1814)
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- Waverley Pen, (born 1825)
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- 10 May – Christian Maclagan, antiquary (born 1811)
- Peter Guthrie Tait, mathematical physicist (born 1831)
- 26 December – Sir Joseph Noel Paton, artist (born 1821)
The arts
- George Douglas Brown's realist novel The House with the Green Shutters is published under the name George Douglas.
- John Davidson, poet, publishes The Testament of a Vivisector and The Testament of a Man Forbid
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-946537-22-8.
- ^ "Glasgow International Exhibition - 1901". Exhibition Study Group. 5 May 2002. Archived from the original on 20 August 2010. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ^ "History". A.G. Barr Plc. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2014.