1889 in Scotland
1889 in Scotland |
Years |
1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 |
Events from 1889 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 11 March - Baby farmer Jessie King is the last woman to be hanged in Edinburgh, for infanticide.
- 24 April - William Henry Bury is hanged in Dundee for uxoricide.
- 15 July - The Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh in premises designed by Rowand Anderson.[1]
- 26 August - The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, receives royal assent.
- Dundee is granted city status in the United Kingdom by letters patent.
Births
- 7 January - George Samson, sailor, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died at sea 1923)
- 20 July - John Reith, broadcasting executive (died 1971)
- 11 August - Ronald Fairbairn, psychoanalyst (died 1964)
- 25 September - Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, writer (died 1930)
- 1 December - Alexander Keiller, marmalade manufacturer and archaeologist (died 1955)
- John Munro (Iain Rothach), Gaelic poet (killed in action 1918)
Deaths
- 31 May - Horatius Bonar, churchman, writer and hymnodist (born 1808)
- 24 December - Charles Mackay, poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist and songwriter (born 1812)
The Arts
- Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Mystery of Cloomber is published.
- Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Master of Ballantrae is published.
See also
References
- ↑ "The Scottish National Portrait Gallery". The Times (32752). 16 July 1889. p. 5.
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