1868 in Scotland

Events from the year 1868 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

Lord Advocate – Edward Strathearn Gordon until December; then James Moncreiff
Solicitor General for Scotland – John Millar; then George Young

Judiciary

Events

22 March – last fully public hanging in Scotland - that of Joseph Bell at Perth. There is another on 12 May at Dumfries.
13 July – Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 passed, creating seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons at the expense of English ones, and giving the vote to all male householders.
19 August – the clipper Thermopylae is launched at Walter Hood & Company's Aberdeen shipyard for George Thompson's Aberdeen Line.
October – Kilmarnock Infirmary opened.
Queen Margaret College (Glasgow) established by the Association for the Higher Education of Women.
The Western General Hospital is established in Edinburgh.
Crieff Hydro opened.
George Baxter opens a grocery shop in Fochabers, the origin of Baxters foods.
William Low grocery shop established by William Rettie and James Low.
Rose's lime juice first manufactured, in Leith.

Births

13 April – John Blackwood McEwen, composer
16 April – Spottiswoode Aitken, silent film actor and Hollywood property developer
5 June – James Connolly, Irish nationalist leader
7 June – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer, watercolourist and artist
23 December – Herbert MacNair, artist and designer

Deaths

10 February – David Brewster, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal
23 February – Andrew Strath, golfer
29 March – Susanna Hawkins, poet
17 June – George Arnott Walker-Arnott, botanist
17 August – Duncan Forbes, linguist
28 November – Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician