Events from the year 1891 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian
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. 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.City of Glasgow Act 1891 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. 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.She is lost at sea around late July 1892. 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) 20 August – John Inglis, Lord Glencorse, judge (born 1810) 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. 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 Timeline of Scottish history 1891 in Ireland
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