1884 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1884 in Scotland .

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher

Judiciary

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

Events

• 26 January – Scotland beat Ireland 5-0 in the first match of the first British Home Championship in Association football. ^[1]
• 15 March – Scotland beat England 1-0 in their second match of the British Home Championship. ^[1]
• 29 March – Scotland beat Wales 4-1 to win the first British Home Championship. ^[1]
• 28 April – Napier Commission delivers the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry Into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. ^[2]
• 12 June – Pier terminal opened at Rothesay, Bute. ^[3]
• 1 July – First International Forestry Exhibition opens at Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh, ^[4] during which an electric railway is demonstrated.
• 17 July – Barque Vicksburg of Leith goes aground on Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Skerries with the loss of nine lives; twelve are saved by the island's lighthouse keepers. ^[5]
• Autumn – Origin of St Johnstone F.C. in Perth.
• 2 November – Fourteen people are killed when some of the audience at the Star Theatre, Glasgow, panic following a false fire alarm. ^[6]
• 11 November – Blackford Hill is acquired by the city of Edinburgh. ^[7]
• 18 November – Crofters War: Royal Marines and police arrive in naval ships at Uig, Skye, following an unsuccessful attempt to evict tenants engaging in a rent strike against Major William Fraser, owner of the Kilmuir Estate and Uig Tower. ^[8]
• 1 December – Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway opens to passengers.
• 6 December – Representation of the People Act 1884 extends the franchise to many crofters. ^[9]
• Teacher's Highland Cream blended whisky registered.

Births

• 11 February – Joseph Westwood, Labour MP (1922–31 and 1935–48) and Secretary of State for Scotland (1945–1947) (died 1948)
• 24 February – William Theodore Heard, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church (died 1973 in Rome)
• 22 May – Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, suffragist and feminist (died 1957 in England) ^[10]
• 28 August – Peter Fraser, Labour prime minister of New Zealand (1940–1949) (died 1950 in New Zealand)

Deaths

• 26 February – Alexander Wood, physician, inventor of the first true hypodermic syringe (born 1817)
• 30 November – Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet, Principal of the University of Edinburgh (born 1826 in the United States)
• 20 December – William Lindsay Alexander, church leader (born 1808)
• Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder (born 1813)

The arts

• Publication of Songs of the North by Harold Boulton and Anne MacLeod including the first known version of "The Skye Boat Song".

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1884 in Ireland

References

1. "Scotland International Matches 1872 to 1899". MyFootballFacts. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
2. "The Napier Commission". University of the Highlands and Islands. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
3. "The Opening of the New Waiting Rooms on the Pier". Rothesay Chronicle. 14 June 1884. p. 3.
4. "The Forestry Exhibition". The Morning Post . London. 2 July 1884. p. 3.
5. "Pentland Skerries". Lighthouse Library. Edinburgh: Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 November 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
6. "Terrible Panic in a Glasgow Theatre". The Cornishman. No. 329. 6 November 1884. p. 7.
7. "The purchase of the Blackford Hill". Edinburgh Evening News . 1 October 1884. p. 2.
8. "Local history". Uig - Isle of Skye. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
9. Crowley, D. W. "The Crofters' Party – 1885 to 1892: The first British independent common people's political party" (PDF). Retrieved 24 April 2017.
10. Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân (eds.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 3. ISBN   9781474436281.