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Events from the year 1891 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – James Robertson until August; vacant until October; then Sir Charles Pearson
 - Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Charles Pearson; then Andrew Murray
 
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse until 20 August; then from 21 September Lord Robertson
 - Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
 
Events
- January – attempts by Scottish railway companies to evict their striking workers from company housing are resisted by force.
 - 30 April – An Comunn Gàidhealach is formally instituted.[1]
 - 21 May – Dumbarton and Rangers are declared joint champions after drawing a play-off game 2–2 at Cathkin Park, Glasgow at the end of the inaugural season of the Scottish Football League.
 - 21 July – City of Glasgow Act extends city boundaries and transfers ownership of Glasgow Botanic Gardens to the Corporation.[2]
 - September – Hugh Munro publishes the first table of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal; these become known as the Munros.
 - 16 November–27 February 1892 – Buffalo Bill's Wild West show is resident at the former East End Exhibition Buildings in Glasgow.[3]
 - 18 December – the largest conventional civilian sailing ship ever built on the River Clyde, the 5-masted barque-rigged steel-hulled vessel Maria Rickmers (3,822 GRT), is launched by Russell & Co. at Port Glasgow for Rickmers Reederei of Bremerhaven.[4]
 - Hydroelectricity installation at Fort Augustus Abbey.
 - The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers moves from Musselburgh to a new private course at Muirfield.
 
Births
- 7 February – D. Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and philatelist (died 1971)
 - 2 April – Jack Buchanan, actor and producer (died 1957)
 - 9 April – Agnes Mure Mackenzie, historian and writer (died 1955)
 - 7 May – Harry McShane, socialist (died 1988)
 - 8 November – Neil M. Gunn, novelist (died 1973)
 
Deaths
- 12 March – John Dick Peddie, architect, businessman and Liberal Party MP for Kilmarnock Burghs (1880–1885) (born 1824)
 - 19 April – Hugh Smellie, steam locomotive engineer (born 1840)
 - 11 May – Alexander Beith, Free Church minister (born 1799)
 - 15 September – Sir John Steell, sculptor (born 1804)
 - 22 November – John Gregorson Campbell, folklorist and Free Church minister (born 1836)
 - 22 December – William Smith, architect (born 1817)
 
The arts
- J. M. Barrie's novel The Little Minister is published.[5]
 - Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Mary MacPherson)'s Gaelic Songs and Poems is published.
 - The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
 
See also
References
- ↑ "On this day". The Scotsman. 30 April 2013.
 - ↑ City of Glasgow Act 1891
 - ↑ "Buffalo Bill". Dennistoun Conservation Society. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
 - ↑ She is lost at sea around late July 1892. "Maria Rickmers". 27 April 1998. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
 - ↑ Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.
 
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