1875 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1875 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
Events
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 22 March – Alexander Thomson, classical architect (born 1817)
- 25 December – Young Tom Morris, youngest winner of golf's Open Championship (born 1851; official cause of death is "heart attack")[4]
- James McLevy, detective (born 1796 in Ireland)
The arts
[edit]- 12 February – Robert Louis Stevenson is introduced to fellow writer W. E. Henley, at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon 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.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "The Origins of Hibernian - Part 1". Hibernian FC: The Official Website. 11 August 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
- ^ "A Potted History of the Club". The Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club. 2000. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ "History: From Edinburgh School of Cookery to Queen Margaret University". Queen Margaret University. Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2007.
- ^ Cook, Kevin (2007). Tommy's Honor. New York: Gotham Books. ISBN 978-1-59240-342-4.
- ^ Mehew, Ernest (2004). "Henley, William Ernest (1849–1903)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33817. Retrieved 29 May 2014. (subscription or UK public library membership required)