1873 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1873 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

• March – Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company (co-founded with William Menzies)
• 3 March – the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union
• 13 March – the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association^[1]
• 15 November – statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh^[2]
• Edinburgh Evening News first published
• Lexicographer James Murray publishes Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland
• George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecessor of the Weir Group, to Glasgow^[3]

Births

• 8 April – James Drever, psychologist (died 1950)
• 13 April – James Salmon, architect (died 1924)
• 6 July – George Aitken Clark Hutchison, Scottish Unionist MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern (1922–23, 1924–28) (died 1928)

Deaths

• 24 February – Thomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist (born 1803)
• 8 March – Robert William Thomson, engineer, inventor of the bicycle tyre (born 1822)
• 1 May – David Livingstone, pioneer medical missionary (born 1813)
• 2 October – John Cunningham, architect (born 1799)
• 27 October – Janet Hamilton, poet (born 1795)
• Hugh Fraser, retailer (born 1815)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1873 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Cup. Scottish FA. 2013-06-08.
2. Web site: Greyfriars Bobby. Edinburgh Museums & Galleries. 2014-02-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20140107015102/http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/Monuments/Greyfriars-Bobby. 7 January 2014. dead. dmy-all.
3. Book: Weir, William. The Weir Group: the history of a Scottish engineering legend, 1872-2008. 2008. London. Profile Books. 978-1-86197-886-8.