1880 in Scotland explained
Events from the year 1880 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 29 March – Bobby Templeton, footballer (died 1919)
- 4 April – William Russell Flint, watercolourist (died 1969)
- 30 April – Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, cartoonist (died 1967)
- 6 May – Edmund Ironside, British Army officer (died 1959)
- 14 May – B. C. Forbes, financial journalist (died 1954 in the United States)
- 1 July – Noel Skelton, Unionist politician, journalist and intellectual (died 1935)
- 13 August – Mary Macarthur, trade unionist (died 1921)
- September – Peter Kyle, footballer (died 1961)
- 23 September – John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1971)
- 15 October – Marie Stopes, author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of birth control (died 1958)
- 18 October – Alexander Livingstone, Liberal politician (died 1950)
- Margaret McCoubrey, suffragette and pacifist in Belfast (died 1955 in Northern Ireland)
- Dorothy Carleton Smyth, artist and designer (died 1933)
- Preston Watson, aviator (killed in military aviation accident 1915)
Deaths
Sport
Establishments
The arts
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: History of Edinburgh. Visions of Scotland. 2014-02-28. 14 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm. dead.
- News: The Ferret Case. The Argus. Melbourne. 9 May 1881. 1S.
- Web site: Scott's Porage – Our Heritage. Scott's Porage Oats. 2010-10-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20100923232409/http://www.scottsporage.co.uk/the-scotts-porage-story/our-heritage/#1. 23 September 2010. dead. dmy-all.