1905 in Scotland
1905 in Scotland |
Years |
1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 |
See also |
1904-05 in Scottish football |
1905-06 in Scottish football |
Events from 1905 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 6 April - Johnny Ramensky, career criminal, employed as a commando for his safe-cracking abilities (died 1972)
- 19 April - Jim Mollison, aviator (died 1959)
- 12 May - Alex Jackson, international footballer (died 1946)
- 12 July - John Maxwell, landscape painter (died 1962)
- 19 July - Robert Hurd, influential conservation architect (died 1963)
- 20 August - Duncan Macrae, actor (died 1967)
- 6 September - William McEwan Younger, brewer and Unionist politician (died 1992 in England)
- 9 December - Janet Adam Smith, writer and mountaineer (died 1999)
- Norman Cameron, poet (born in Bombay; died 1953 in London)
Deaths
- 21 January - Robert Brough, painter, died in a railway disaster (born 1872)
- 16 August - Jamie Anderson, golfer (born 1842)
- 22 August - David Binning Monro, Homeric scholar (born 1836)
- 18 September - George MacDonald, author, poet and Christian minister (born 1844)
- 8 October - Allan MacDonald, Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (born 1859)
- 27 October - Ralph Copeland, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (born 1837 in England)
- 7 November - Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist (born 1855)
- 12 December - William Sharp, poet and literary biographer (born 1855)
The Arts
- 16 January - Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.
- Harry Lauder writes the popular song "I Love a Lassie".
See also
References
- ↑ Cross, William (2005). Death in a Lodging House. ISBN 0-9528575-8-8.