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Events from the year 1908 in Scotland .
William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, KP, PC, PC (Ire) was a leading British shipbuilder and businessman. He was chairman of Harland and Wolff, shipbuilders, between 1895 and 1924, and also served as Lord Mayor of Belfast between 1896 and 1898. He was ennobled as Baron Pirrie in 1906, appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1908 and made Viscount Pirrie in 1921. In the months leading up to the 1912 Titanic disaster, Lord Pirrie was questioned about the number of life boats aboard the Olympic-class ships. He responded that the great ships were unsinkable and the rafts were to save others. This would haunt him forever. In Belfast he was, on other grounds, already a controversial figure: a Protestant employer associated as a leading Liberal with a policy of Home Rule for Ireland.
Events from the year 1886 in the United Kingdom.
The 1917 Dundee by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Dundee in the county of Angus held on 30 July 1917.
Events from the year 1944 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1927 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1905 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1903 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1892 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1886 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1879 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1874 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1866 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1854 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1851 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1850 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1817 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1818 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1836 in Scotland.
Events from the year 1802 in Scotland.
Horatia Dorothy MoloneyLancaster was an Irish suffragette campaigner and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). She became Organiser to the London Council of the Women's Freedom League in 1908, following its split from the WSPU. She famously disrupted the 1908 Dundee by-election by ringing a bell every time Winston Churchill attempted to address a crowd demanding that he apologize for insulting remarks he had made about the women's suffrage movement.