1891 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1891 }}
Events from the year 1891 in Scotland.
Incumbents
{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}
= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – James Robertson until August; vacant until October; then Sir Charles Pearson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Charles Pearson; then Andrew Murray
= Judiciary =
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse until 20 August; then from 21 September Lord Robertson
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- January – attempts by Scottish railway companies to evict their striking workers from company housing are resisted by force.
- 30 April – An Comunn Gàidhealach is formally instituted.{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/opinion/comment/on-this-day-monica-seles-stabbed-an-comunn-gaidhealach-1-2913539|title=On this day|work=The Scotsman|date=2013-04-30}}
- 21 May – Dumbarton and Rangers are declared joint champions after drawing a play-off game 2–2 at Cathkin Park, Glasgow at the end of the inaugural season of the Scottish Football League.
- 21 July – City of Glasgow Act extends city boundaries and transfers ownership of Glasgow Botanic Gardens to the Corporation.[https://vlex.co.uk/vid/city-of-glasgow-act-808093021 City of Glasgow Act 1891]
- September – Hugh Munro publishes the first table of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal; these become known as the Munros.
- 16 November–27 February 1892 – Buffalo Bill's Wild West show is resident at the former East End Exhibition Buildings in Glasgow.{{cite web|title=Buffalo Bill|url=http://www.dennistounconservationsociety.org.uk/page.asp?Title=Buffalo+Bill&Section=11&Page=13|publisher=Dennistoun Conservation Society|access-date=2014-08-01|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122034/http://www.dennistounconservationsociety.org.uk/page.asp?Title=Buffalo+Bill&Section=11&Page=13|url-status=dead}}
- 18 December – the largest conventional civilian sailing ship ever built on the River Clyde, the 5-masted barque-rigged steel-hulled vessel Maria Rickmers (3,822 GRT), is launched by Russell & Co. at Port Glasgow for Rickmers Reederei of Bremerhaven.She is lost at sea around late July 1892. {{cite web|title=Maria Rickmers|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fivemast_ships/Maria_Rickmers%281892%29.html|date=1998-04-27|access-date=2014-08-29}}
- Hydroelectricity installation at Fort Augustus Abbey.
- The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers moves from Musselburgh to a new private course at Muirfield.
Births
- 7 February – D. Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and philatelist (died 1971)
- 2 April – Jack Buchanan, actor and producer (died 1957)
- 9 April – Agnes Mure Mackenzie, historian and writer (died 1955)
- 7 May – Harry McShane, socialist (died 1988)
- 8 November – Neil M. Gunn, novelist (died 1973)
Deaths
- 12 March – John Dick Peddie, architect, businessman and Liberal Party MP for Kilmarnock Burghs (1880–1885) (born 1824)
- 19 April – Hugh Smellie, steam locomotive engineer (born 1840)
- 11 May – Alexander Beith, Free Church minister (born 1799)
- 15 September – Sir John Steell, sculptor (born 1804)
- 22 November – John Gregorson Campbell, folklorist and Free Church minister (born 1836)
- 22 December – William Smith, architect (born 1817)
The arts
- J. M. Barrie's novel The Little Minister is published.{{cite book|first=Q. D.|last=Leavis|author-link=Q. D. Leavis|title=Fiction and the Reading Public|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=1965}}
- Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Mary MacPherson)'s Gaelic Songs and Poems is published.
- The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.