1894 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1894 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher; then Thomas Shaw

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

Events

• 5 July – racing cutter Valkyrie II (1893) collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality.^[1]
• 11 July – rebuilt St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, dedicated.
• July – Marion Gilchrist becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university.
• 7 August – the West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William.^[2]
• 25 August – Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 receives the Royal Assent. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.
• December – Longmorn distillery begins production.
• Lady Victoria Colliery comes into production at Newtongrange, Midlothian.
• McVitie's biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt.
• Elsie Inglis sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh.
• Craigholme School founded by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as Pollokshields Ladies' School.
• Alyth golf course laid out by Old Tom Morris.
• Marion Adams-Acton publishes Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history.

Births

• 26 March – Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer (died 1985)
• 13 May – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (died 1968)
• 28 June – Allardyce Nicoll, literary scholar (died 1976 in England)
• 29 June – David Steele, international footballer and manager (died 1964)
• 14 October – Victoria Drummond, marine engineer (died 1978 in England)
• Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer (died 1972)
• R. M. Smyllie, journalist (died 1954 in Ireland)

Deaths

• 3 September – John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian (born 1829)
• 3 December – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1850; dies on Samoa)^[3]

The arts

• Ian Maclaren's stories Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush are published.^[4]
• Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863 in the United States) dies; Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir is published posthumously edited by Andrew Lang.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1894 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. News: The New York Times. The Yacht Valkyrie sunk. 1894-07-06. pdf. 2012-04-22.
2. Book: Thomas, John. John Thomas (author). The West Highland Railway. 1965. David & Charles. Dawlish.
3. Web site: Robert Louis Stevenson. BBC. 2013-05-27.
4. Book: Sutherland, John. John Sutherland (author). Bestsellers: a very short introduction. limited. Oxford University Press. 2007. 978-0-19-921489-1. 85.