Events from the year 1888 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian
Law officers Lord Advocate – John Macdonald until October; then James Robertson Solicitor General for Scotland – James Robertson; then Moir Tod Stormonth Darling
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff, then Lord Kingsburgh
Events 9 January – Crofters War: Aignish riot – Dispossessed crofters on Lewis face armed troops. 15 March – transatlantic liner is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank. 8 May–November – International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry at Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow. July–August – first "Race to the North": Operators of the West and East Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Edinburgh. 28 May – Celtic Football Club play their first official match, beating Rangers 5–2 in Glasgow. 25 August – first Scottish Labour Party founded. 24 September – Stock exchange opened at Greenock. 15 October – Dundee Institute of Technology, predecessor of Abertay University, opens. c. December – completion of first stage of Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. Lancashire textile machinery manufacturer John Bullough purchases the isle of Rùm. Opening of Carstairs House Tramway, a private railway powered by hydroelectricity and the first permanent electric railway in Scotland.
Births 3 January – James Bridie (O. H. Mavor), playwright (died 1951) 13 February – Andrew Dewar Gibb, lawyer and Scottish National Party politician (died 1974) 8 March – John Nicholson, footballer (died 1970 in England) 19 April – Walter Elliot, Unionist politician (died 1958) 6 June – Scottie Wilson, né Louis Freeman, artist (died 1972 in England) 7 June – Hilda Matheson, pioneering radio talks producer, born in London (died 1940 in England) 7 July – Edith Hughes, née Burnet, architect (died 1971) 14 August – John Logie Baird, engineer and inventor (died 1946) 5 September – Jack Miles, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia (died 1969 in Australia) 7 October – Cecil Coles, composer (killed in action 1918) Approximate date – Alexander MacRae, clothing manufacturer (died 1938 in Australia)
Deaths 10 January – James Campbell Walker, Scottish architect (born 1821) May – James Salmon, architect (born 1805) 30 May – William Hay, architect (born 1818) 4 August – Lord Douglas Gordon, Liberal MP (born 1851)
Art J. M. Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls is published.
See also Timeline of Scottish history 1888 in Ireland
References