1900 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1900 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1899–1900 • 1900–01 |
Events from the year 1900 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch — Queen Victoria
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Blair Balfour
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- 23 March — SS Sir Walter Scott enters excursion service on Loch Katrine.
- 23 April–12 May — The Automobile Club of Great Britain stages a Thousand Mile Trial, a reliability motor rally over a circular route from London to Edinburgh and return.[1]
- May — The Migdale Hoard of early Bronze Age jewellery is discovered near Bonar Bridge.
- September–November — Queen Victoria pays her last visit to Balmoral Castle.
- 31 October — The United Free Church of Scotland is formed by union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland.[2]
- 15 December — All three keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse are drowned.
- 21 December — Delting disaster: four fishing boats with 22 crew from the Shetland villages of Mossbank and Firth (in the parish of Delting) are lost in a storm.
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the White Dining Room for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Ingram Street, Glasgow.
Births
- 14 March — Margaret Kidd, lawyer (died 1989)
- 29 May — David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor (died 1967)
- 9 October — Alastair Sim, character actor on stage and screen (died 1976)
- 12 December — David Meiklejohn, international footballer (died 1959)
- Margaret Sinclair, nun (died 1925)
Deaths
- 15 May — Hercules Linton, shipbuilder (born 1837)
- 30 May — Francis Moncreiff, international rugby union player and Scotland's first captain (born 1849)
- 9 October — John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, landowner (born 1847)
The Arts
- Doric dialect poet Charles Murray publishes Hamewith, including "The Whistle".
See also
References
- ↑ "1900 One Thousand Mile Trial". Grace's Guide. 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-07-29.
- ↑ "The New Scottish Denomination". The Times (36288) (London). 1900-11-01. p. 8.
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