1871 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1871 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – George Young
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

Events

• 7 March – the first rugby international, played in Edinburgh, results in a 4–1 win by Scotland over England.^[1]
• 26 May – Parliament passes the Bank Holidays Act which creates five annual bank holidays in Scotland.^[2]
• 1 August – the Arlington Swimming Club, designed by John Burnet, opens in the district of Charing Cross, Glasgow.
• 6 November – the Edinburgh Street Tramways Company begins operating horsecars, the first tram system in Scotland.^[3]
• 10 November – missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone is located by journalist Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika.^[2]
• Patent Asbestos Manufacturing Co. established in Glasgow, perhaps the first such plant in the U.K.^[4]
• Thomas Lipton opens his first grocery shop, in Glasgow.

Births

• 21 January – Ernest Kitto, cricketer in New Zealand (died 1897 at sea)
• 27 January – Samuel Peploe, painter (died 1935)
• 17 February
  • John A. Gilruth, veterinary surgeon and colonial administrator (died 1937 in Australia)
  • Peter Corsar Anderson, golfer (died 1955)
• 10 September – Thomas Adams, urban planner (died 1940)
• 12 September – John Campbell, international footballer (died 1947)
• Lachlan Grant, physician (died 1945)
• Thomas W. Lamb, theatre architect in the United States (died 1942)

Deaths

• 5 February – James Munro, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826)
• 17 March – Robert Chambers, publisher and geologist (born 1802)
• 20 April – Samuel Halkett, librarian (born 1814)
• 6 September – James Burns, shipowner (born 1789)
• 22 October – Roderick Murchison, geologist (born 1792)^[5]

The arts

• William Alexander's realist novel Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk is published in book form (having been serialised in the Aberdeen Free Press 1869-70).^[6]
• William Black's novel A Daughter of Heth is published.^[7]

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1871 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Palmer, Alan. Palmer. Veronica. 1992. The Chronology of British History. Century Ltd. London. 293–294. 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
3. News: David. McLean. Lost Edinburgh: Edinburgh Trams 1871-1956. The Scotsman. Edinburgh. 2013-04-30. 2014-08-20.
4. Book: Lethal Work: a history of the asbestos tragedy in Scotland. Ronald. Johnston. Arthur. McIvor. East Linton. Tuckwell Press. 2000. 1-86232-178-7. 10.
5. Amodeo. Christian. June 2005. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison: Pioneering Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison was instrumental in the identification and naming of several geological time periods. Geographical.
6. Web site: William. Donaldson. Alexander, William (1826–1894). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. Online. 2013-08-19. 10.1093/ref:odnb/39241.
7. Book: Leavis, Q. D.. Q. D. Leavis. Fiction and the Reading Public. 2nd. London. Chatto & Windus. 1965.