1876 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1876 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Edward Strathearn Gordon until July; then William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – William Watson; then John Macdonald

Judiciary

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

Events

• 14 February – Alexander Graham Bell files a patent for the telephone in the United States.^[1]
• 19 February – Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match.^[2]
• 5 April – River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster: 32 drown.
• 18 June – promenade on the roof of Waverley Market opens in Edinburgh;^[3] this year also West Princes Street Gardens pass to the city's council as a public park.
• 17 October – St Enoch railway station officially opens in Glasgow.^[4]
• 3 November – McLean Museum opens in Greenock.^[5]
• William Forbes Skene's Celtic Scotland: a History of Ancient Alban begins publication in Edinburgh.
• Camp Coffee is first produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow.

Births

• 23 March – Muirhead Bone, etcher (died 1953)
• 13 April – Robert Smyth McColl, footballer and retail store founder (died 1959)
• 19 June – Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer (died 1941)
• 6 September – John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
• 3 October – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (died 1967)
• 22 October – Cecilia Loftus, born Marie Cecilia Loftus Brown, actress in music hall and legitimate theatre (died 1943 in the United States)
• 4 November – Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name (died 1951)
• 7 November – Alex Smith, international footballer (died 1954)
• 17 December – Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian (died 1947)
• 18 December – Henry Wade, surgeon (died 1955)
• Joseph Lee, poet and journalist (died 1949)

Deaths

• 9 January – Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (born 1843)
• 22 January – Sir George Harvey, genre painter (born 1806)
• 3 February – Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (born 1813)
• 24 April – Henry Dübs, steam locomotive manufacturer (born 1816 in Germany)
• 7 May – David Bryce, architect (born 1803)
• 23 June – Robert Napier, engineer, "Father of Clyde Shipbuilding" (born 1791)
• 23 December – Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves, judge and poet (born 1800)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1876 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. News: Anne. Miller. John. Mitchinson. John Mitchinson (researcher). QI: some quite interesting facts about telephones. https://web.archive.org/web/20130609094856/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/10047361/QI-some-quite-interesting-facts-about-telephones.html. dead. 2013-06-09. The Daily Telegraph. London. 2013-05-13. 2014-03-18.
2. Web site: 1875-76 New Beginnings. Partick Thistle - The Early Years. 2014-03-18.
3. Web site: History of Edinburgh. Visions of Scotland. 2014-03-18. 14 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm. dead.
4. Book: Thomas, John. John Thomas (author). 1971. A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Volume VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders. 1st. Newton Abbot. David & Charles. 0-7153-5408-6.
5. Web site: Museum History. Inverclyde Council. https://archive.today/20120803002528/http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/mclean-museum-and-art-gallery/museum-history. dead. 2012-08-03. 2014-03-18.