1876 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1876 Events from the year 1876 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Edward Strathearn Gordon until July; then William Watson Solicitor General for Scotland – William Watson; then John Macdonald Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff Events 14 February – Alexander Graham Bell files a patent for the telephone in the United States.Anne Miller John Mitchinson John Mitchinson (researcher) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/10047361/QI-some-quite-interesting-facts-about-telephones.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130609094856/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/qi/10047361/QI-some-quite-interesting-facts-about-telephones.html dead 2013-06-09 QI: some quite interesting facts about telephones The Daily Telegraph London 2013-05-13 2014-03-18 19 February – Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match.1875-76 New Beginnings http://ptearlyyears.net/1870s/1875-76 Partick Thistle - The Early Years 2014-03-18 5 April – River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster: 32 drown. 18 June – promenade on the roof of Waverley Market opens in Edinburgh;History of Edinburgh http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm Visions of Scotland 2014-03-18 14 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm dead this year also West Princes Street Gardens pass to the city's council as a public park. 17 October – St Enoch railway station officially opens in Glasgow.Thomas John John Thomas (author) 1971 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Volume VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders 1st Newton Abbot David & Charles 0-7153-5408-6 3 November – McLean Museum opens in Greenock.Museum History Inverclyde Council http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/mclean-museum-and-art-gallery/museum-history https://archive.today/20120803002528/http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/community-life-and-leisure/mclean-museum-and-art-gallery/museum-history dead 2012-08-03 2014-03-18 William Forbes Skene's Celtic Scotland: a History of Ancient Alban begins publication in Edinburgh. Camp Coffee is first produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow. Births 23 March – Muirhead Bone, etcher (died 1953) 13 April – Robert Smyth McColl, footballer and retail store founder (died 1959) 19 June – Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer (died 1941) 6 September – John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935) 3 October – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (died 1967) 22 October – Cecilia Loftus, born Marie Cecilia Loftus Brown, actress in music hall and legitimate theatre (died 1943 in the United States) 4 November – Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name (died 1951) 7 November – Alex Smith, international footballer (died 1954) 17 December – Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian (died 1947) 18 December – Henry Wade, surgeon (died 1955) Joseph Lee, poet and journalist (died 1949) Deaths 9 January – Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (born 1843) 22 January – Sir George Harvey, genre painter (born 1806) 3 February – Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (born 1813) 24 April – Henry Dübs, steam locomotive manufacturer (born 1816 in Germany) 7 May – David Bryce, architect (born 1803) 23 June – Robert Napier, engineer, "Father of Clyde Shipbuilding" (born 1791) 23 December – Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves, judge and poet (born 1800) See also Timeline of Scottish history 1876 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1870s in Scotland Scotland