1863 in Scotland

Events from the year 1863 in Scotland.

Incumbents

10 January – steamer Bussorah is lost off Islay with all 33 hands on her maiden voyage.
17 September – royal burgh of Linlithgow enters bankruptcy.{{cite news|title=Bankruptcy of the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow|work=The Scotsman|location=Edinburgh|date=1863-10-23|page=2}}
18 September – Willie Park wins his second Open Championship title at Prestwick Golf Club.[http://www.theopen.com/en/History/PreviousOpens.aspx?eventid=1863000&view= Prestwick - 1863] www.theopen.com, accessed 18 June 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120806135058/http://www.theopen.com/en/History/PreviousOpens.aspx?eventid=1863000&view= Archived] 2013-06-29.
13 October – the Provostship of Aberdeen is elevated to Lord Provost.The Edinburgh Gazette, Issue No. 7384, p. 1521, 1 December 1863.
Overtoun House is completed.

15 February – Charlotte Ainslie, educationalist and headmistress (died 1960){{cite book |editor1-last=Ewan |editor1-first=Elizabeth |editor2-last=Pipes |editor2-first=Rose |editor3-last=Rendall |editor3-first=Jane |editor4-last=Reynolds |editor4-first=Siân |title=The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9781474436281 |page=8}}
2 April – William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, leader of the Labour Party (1917–21) and Secretary of State for Scotland (1924 & 1929–31) (died 1936)
17 May – Stewart Gray, lawyer, campaigner for social justice and patron of the arts (died 1937 in England)
3 June – Neil Munro, writer (died 1930)Osborne, Brian; Armstrong, Ronald. "Introduction", Para Handy: The Complete Edition.
1 September – Violet Jacob, born Violet Kennedy-Erskine, historical novelist and poet (died 1946)
13 September – Arthur Henderson, first Labour Party cabinet minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935 in England)
5 December – George Pirie, painter (died 1946)

3 July – Alexander Henry Rhind, antiquarian and Egyptologist (born 1833; died in Italy)
14 August – Colin Campbell, army commander (born 1792; died in England)

Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston)'s Gaelic poem on the Clearances on his native Islay, Fios Thun A' Bhard, is published as a broadsheet in Glasgow.Whyte, Christopher (1991). [http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3982/1/1991WhytePhD.pdf William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose]. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
George MacDonald's novel David Elginbrod is published.