Events from the year 1902 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Law officers Lord Advocate – Andrew Murray Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Dickson
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Blair Balfour Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events 5 April – The original Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match. 25 people die and 517 are injured. 29 July – St Lawrence's Church, Dingwall (Roman Catholic) opens. 15 October – The North British Hotel in Edinburgh opens its doors for the first time. 2 November – The first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia. 10 November – Percival Spencer and the Rev. J. M. Bacon make the first-ever hot air balloon flight from the Isle of Man, landing in Dumfriesshire. Pulteneytown merged into the burgh of Wick.
Births 16 January (in China) – Eric Liddell, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary (died 1945 in a Japanese-run internment camp in China) 26 March – Marion Cameron Gray, mathematician (died 1979) 27 March – Kenneth Macpherson, cinematographer (died 1971 in Tuscany) 24 July – Renée Houston, née Katherina Houston Gribbin, comedy actress (died 1980) 19 August – Fyfe Robertson, television presenter (died 1987) 28 October – Jenny Gilbertson, née Brown, documentary filmmaker (died 1990)
Deaths 20 February – David MacGibbon, architect (born 1831) 29 June – John Stuart McCaig of Muckairn and Soroba, creator of McCaig's Tower, Oban (born 1823) 16 July – Henry Dunning Macleod, economist (born 1821) 28 August – George Douglas Brown, novelist (born 1869) 29 September – William McGonagall, weaver, doggerel poet and tragedian (born 1825)
The arts First modern play in Scottish Gaelic staged, in Edinburgh. The Classical Association of Scotland founded
See also Timeline of Scottish history 1902 in the United Kingdom
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