1891 in Scotland
Events from the year 1891 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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.
- 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.
- September – Hugh Munro publishes the first table of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet, 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.
- 18 December – the largest conventional civilian sailing ship ever built on the River Clyde, the 5-masted barque-rigged steel-hulled vessel Maria Rickmers, is launched by Russell & Co. at Port Glasgow for Rickmers Reederei of Bremerhaven.
- 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
- 2 April – Jack Buchanan, actor and producer
- 9 April – Agnes Mure Mackenzie, historian and writer
- 7 May – Harry McShane, socialist
- 8 November – Neil M. Gunn, novelist
Deaths
- 12 March – John Dick Peddie, architect, businessman and Liberal Party MP for Kilmarnock Burghs
- 19 April – Hugh Smellie, steam locomotive engineer
- 11 May – Alexander Beith, Free Church minister
- 15 September – Sir John Steell, sculptor
- 22 November – John Gregorson Campbell, folklorist and Free Church minister
- 22 December – William Smith, architect
The arts
- J. M. Barrie's novel The Little Minister is published.
- Màiri Mhòr nan Òran '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.