1900 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1900 Events from the year 1900 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland 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 thumb|250px|Sir Walter Scott at Trossachs Pier on Loch Katrine 23 March – Sir Walter Scott enters excursion service on Loch Katrine. 23 April–12 May – the Automobile Club of Great Britain stages a Thousand Mile Trial, a reliability motor rally over a circular route from London to Edinburgh and return.1900 One Thousand Mile Trial Grace's Guide http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1900_One_Thousand_Mile_Trial 2013-02-15 2013-07-29 May – the Migdale Hoard of early Bronze Age jewellery is discovered near Bonar Bridge. September–November – Queen Victoria pays her last visit to Balmoral Castle. 31 October – the United Free Church of Scotland is formed by union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland.The New Scottish Denomination The Times London 1900-11-01 8 36288 15 December – all three keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse are drowned. 21 December – Delting disaster: four fishing boats with 22 crew from the Shetland villages of Mossbank and Firth (in the parish of Delting) are lost in a storm. Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the White Dining Room for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Ingram Street, Glasgow. Margaret Barr Fulton begins work as the UK's first qualified occupational therapist at Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum. Nordrach on Dee Hospital at Banchory opens, the first specialist sanatorium in Scotland for tuberculosis patients.https://historic-hospitals.com/2016/11/20/the-late-glen-odee-hospital-banchory/ The late Glen o'Dee Hospital, Banchory Christine Richardson Historic Hospitals 2016-11-20 Births 6 February – Guy Warrack, conductor (died 1986) 14 March – Margaret Kidd, lawyer (died 1989) 29 March – Margaret Sinclair, nun (died 1925) 29 May – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor (died 1967) 17 June – Evelyn Irons, journalist, war correspondent (died 2000)https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/nyregion/evelyn-irons-war-reporter-is-dead-at-99.html Evelyn Irons, War Reporter, Is Dead at 99 Lewis Paul 2000-04-30 The New York Times 2017-10-18 30 June – James Stagg, meteorologist (died 1975) 13 July – Bessie Watson, child suffragette and piper (died 1992) 25 August – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, architect (died 1970)http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100348 Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report 2017-10-18 Goold David www.scottisharchitects.org.uk 2017-10-18 9 October – Alastair Sim, character actor on stage and screen (died 1976) 12 December – David Meiklejohn, international footballer (died 1959) Deaths 15 May – Hercules Linton, shipbuilder (born 1837) 30 May – Francis Moncreiff, international rugby union player and Scotland's first captain (born 1849) 9 October – John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, landowner (born 1847) The arts 10 April – Soprano Mary Garden makes her operatic debut in the title role of Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Doric dialect poet Charles Murray publishes Hamewith, including "The Whistle". See also Timeline of Scottish history 1900 in Ireland References Category:1900s in Scotland Scotland