1863 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1863 in Scotland.

Incumbents

10 January – steamer Bussorah is lost off Islay with all 33 hands on her maiden voyage.
17 September – royal burgh of Linlithgow enters bankruptcy.^[1]
18 September – Willie Park wins his second Open Championship title at Prestwick Golf Club.^[2]
13 October – the Provostship of Aberdeen is elevated to Lord Provost.^[3]
Overtoun House is completed.

15 February – Charlotte Ainslie, educationalist and headmistress (died 1960)^[4]
2 April – William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, leader of the Labour Party (1917–21) and Secretary of State for Scotland (1924 & 1929–31) (died 1936)
17 May – Stewart Gray, lawyer, campaigner for social justice and patron of the arts (died 1937 in England)
3 June – Neil Munro, writer (died 1930)^[5]
1 September – Violet Jacob, born Violet Kennedy-Erskine, historical novelist and poet (died 1946)
13 September – Arthur Henderson, first Labour Party cabinet minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935 in England)
5 December – George Pirie, painter (died 1946)

3 July – Alexander Henry Rhind, antiquarian and Egyptologist (born 1833; died in Italy)
14 August – Colin Campbell, army commander (born 1792; died in England)

Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston)'s Gaelic poem on the Clearances on his native Islay, Fios Thun A' Bhard, is published as a broadsheet in Glasgow.^[6]
George MacDonald's novel David Elginbrod is published.

News: Bankruptcy of the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow. The Scotsman. Edinburgh. 1863-10-23. 2.
http://www.theopen.com/en/History/PreviousOpens.aspx?eventid=1863000&view= Prestwick - 1863
The Edinburgh Gazette, Issue No. 7384, p. 1521, 1 December 1863.
Book: Ewan . Elizabeth . Pipes . Rose . Rendall . Jane . Reynolds . Siân . The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women . Edinburgh University Press . 9781474436281 . 8.
Osborne, Brian; Armstrong, Ronald. "Introduction", Para Handy: The Complete Edition.
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