1895 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 thumb|right | alt=The Scotland national football team: (back row, l-r) SFA vice-president RF Harrison, John Drummond, William Lambie, SFA president Archibald Sliman, David Russell, Neil Gibson, SFA treasurer R Dixon; (middle row, l-r) William Gulliland, James Simpson, Tom Waddell, James Oswald, John McPherson, Dan Doyle, Dan McArthur; (front row, l-r) R Foyers, SFA secretary JK McDowall, trainer J Taylor | The Scotland national football team: (back row, l-r) SFA vice-president RF Harrison, John Drummond, William Lambie, SFA president Archibald Sliman, David Russell, Neil Gibson, SFA treasurer R Dixon; (middle row, l-r) William Gulliland, James Simpson, Tom Waddell, James Oswald, John McPherson, Dan Doyle, Dan McArthur; (front row, l-r) R Foyers, SFA secretary JK McDowall, trainer J Taylor 1895 Events from the year 1895 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, to 29 June; then Lord Balfour of Burleigh Law officers Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour until July; then Sir Charles Pearson Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Shaw; then Andrew Murray Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh Events 11 February – the lowest ever UK temperature of −27.2 °C (measured as −17 °F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1551402 Braemar poised to break its own record as coldest spot The Press and Journal Aberdeen 2010-01-07 (This UK Weather Record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.) 11 April – electric light is introduced in Edinburgh.History of Edinburgh http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm Visions of Scotland 2014-02-25 14 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm dead 13 April – first cremation in Scotland's first crematorium, at Glasgow's Western Necropolis.Our Story http://glasgowcrematorium.co.uk/history.htm Glasgow Crematorium The Scottish Cremation Society 2016-07-12 2 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160702004240/http://glasgowcrematorium.co.uk/history.htm dead July–August – second "Race to the North": Operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Aberdeen. 28 October The Daily Record newspaper is first published. Probable date of the first car shipped into Scotland, a Panhard for Glasgow engineer George Johnston.Scotland's motoring century Ross Finlay The Herald Glasgow 1995-10-27 http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/scotland-s-motoring-century-1.654344 2014-04-08 Percy Pilcher flies in several versions of his hang glider Bat at Cardross, Argyll, the first person to make repeated heavier-than-air flights in the UK.http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst894.html Percy Sinclair Pilcher Gazetteer for Scotland School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh 2014-04-17Percy Sinclair Pilcher (1867–1899) http://www.engineeringhalloffame.org/profile-pilcher.html Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame 2011 2014-04-17 Sule Skerry lighthouse completed. New Dunoon Pier built. New offices for The Glasgow Herald (later The Lighthouse), designed by John KeppieThe Lighthouse, Glasgow. Building information (leaflet). and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. New premises for Jenners department store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, completed. The North British Aluminium Company builds Britain's first aluminium smelting plant on the shore of Loch Ness at Foyers. Babcock & Wilcox Ltd establish a manufacturing facility at Renfrew based on the existing Porterfield Foundry. Paterson's begin baking oatcakes in Rutherglen.Paterson Arran https://www.paterson-arran.com/ 2016-04-24 Births 2 March – Hughie Ferguson, footballer (suicide 1930) 9 March – Isobel Baillie, soprano (died 1983) 29 March – Anne Redpath, still life painter (died 1965) 19 May – Charles Sorley, poet (killed in action 1915) 17 June – George MacLeod, soldier and minister of religion (died 1991) 16 July – Hay Petrie, character actor (died 1948) 25 August – R. D. Low, comics writer and editor (died 1980) 3 October – George Henry Tatham Paton, recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1917) Deaths 18 June – Lord Colin Campbell, Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885 and probable adulterer (born 1853) 22 August – Peter Denny, shipbuilder and owner (born 1821) George Thompson, shipowner and politician (born 1804) See also Timeline of Scottish history 1895 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1890s in Scotland Scotland