1904 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1904 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Andrew Murray

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Charles Dickson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – David Dundas

Judiciary

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

Events

• 28 June – the Danish liner is wrecked off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.^[1]
• 1 August – a judgement on appeal to the House of Lords in the case of Bannatyne v Overtoun (in which the minority Free Church of Scotland challenged the new United Free Church of Scotland) is delivered.
• 17 September – new St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow, opened.
• 31 December – Glasgow-registered cargo steamers Stromboli and Kathleen collide and sink at Garvel Point, Greenock.^[2]
• Hyskeir Lighthouse completed.
• The Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art is renamed as the Royal Scottish Museum.
• Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh, founded.
• First West Highland White Terrier breed club set up.

Births

• 4 January – Erik Chisholm, composer (died 1965 in South Africa)
• 26 April – Jimmy McGrory, international footballer and manager (died 1982)
• 28 May – Anne Gillespie Shaw, engineer and businesswoman (died 1982)^[3]
• 25 June – Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, historian and biographer (died 1976)
• 14 August – Lindley Fraser, academic economist and broadcaster (died 1963 in London)
• 23 August – William Primrose, violist (died in Provo, Utah 1982)
• 20 October – Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan and pioneer of medicare (died 1986 in Canada)
• 3 November – Jennie Lee, politician (died 1988)
• 20 November – John MacCormick, lawyer and advocate of Home Rule for Scotland (died 1961)
• Edward Baird, painter (died 1949)
• Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (died 1967)

Deaths

• 16 April – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (born 1812)
• 25 May – David Sime Cargill, industrialist (born 1826)
• 7 October – Isabella Bird, traveller (born 1831 in Yorkshire)
• 12 November – George Lennox Watson, naval architect (born 1851)
• 25 December – James Brown, poet and essayist, known as J. B. Selkirk (born 1832)

The arts

• 29 February – the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, opens as a music hall.
• 12 September – the King's Theatre, Glasgow, opens.
• 27 December – J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.^[4]
• Hill House, Helensburgh, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is completed.^[5]

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1904 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Book: Sebak, Per Kristian. Titanic's Predecessor: the S/S Norge Disaster of 1904. Laksevaag. Seaward. 2004. 82-996779-0-4.
2. Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2014-09-01. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141205083554/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-f.htm. 2014-12-05.
3. Web site: Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. www.engineeringhalloffame.org. 28 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20171021220236/http://www.engineeringhalloffame.org/profile-shaw-temp.html. 21 October 2017. dead.
4. Book: Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 0-14-102715-0. 2006.
5. Web site: Armin. Grewe. C. R. Mackintosh: Hill House in Helensburgh. The Armin Grewe Homepage. Aldermaston. 2001–2006. 2010-07-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20100623144333/http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm-hillhouse.htm. 23 June 2010. live.