Events from the year 1873 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers Lord Advocate – George Young Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
Events March – Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company (co-founded with William Menzies) 3 March – the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union 13 March – the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association 15 November – statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh Edinburgh Evening News first published Lexicographer James Murray publishes Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecessor of the Weir Group, to Glasgow
Births 8 April – James Drever, psychologist (died 1950) 13 April – James Salmon, architect (died 1924) 6 July – George Aitken Clark Hutchison, Scottish Unionist MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern (1922–23, 1924–28) (died 1928)
Deaths 24 February – Thomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist (born 1803) 8 March – Robert William Thomson, engineer, inventor of the bicycle tyre (born 1822) 1 May – David Livingstone, pioneer medical missionary (born 1813) 2 October – John Cunningham, architect (born 1799) 27 October – Janet Hamilton, poet (born 1795) Hugh Fraser, retailer (born 1815)
See also Timeline of Scottish history 1873 in Ireland
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