Английская Википедия:1900 in Scotland
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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Year in Scotland Events from the year 1900 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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 – Шаблон:SS 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.
- Margaret Barr Fulton begins work as the UK's first qualified occupational therapist at Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum.
- Nordrach on Dee sanatorium at Banchory opens, the first such specialist establishment in Scotland for tuberculosis patients.
Births
- 6 February – Guy Warrack, conductor (died 1986)
- 14 March – Margaret Kidd, lawyer (died 1989)
- 29 March – Margaret Sinclair, nun (died 1925)
- 29 May – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor (died 1967)
- 17 June – Evelyn Irons, journalist, war correspondent (died 2000)[3]
- 30 June – James Stagg, meteorologist (died 1975)
- 13 July – Bessie Watson, child suffragette and piper (died 1992)
- 25 August – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, architect (died 1970)[4]
- 9 October – Alastair Sim, character actor on stage and screen (died 1976)
- 12 December – David Meiklejohn, international footballer (died 1959)
- Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah, born Elizabeth Louise MacKenzie, writer as Morag Murray Abdullah (died 1960)
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
