1892 in Scotland

Events from the year 1892 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian, until 11 August; then Sir George Trevelyan, Bt

Law officers

Lord Advocate – Sir Charles Pearson until August; then John Blair Balfour
Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Murray; then Alexander Asher

Judiciary

Events

29 January – Original bridge at Bonar Bridge swept away by flood.
February – Scottish Universities Commissioners publish an ordinance authorising Scottish universities to provide for the education and graduation of women for the first time.
9 April – Celtic F.C. win the Scottish Cup for the first time.
4–18 July – At the 1892 [United Kingdom general election|1892 general election], Keir Hardie, standing as an Independent Labour Party candidate, wins the London seat of West Ham South.
5 July – Central Library, Aberdeen, opened by entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie.
6 September – Dundee Whaling Expedition begins.
8 September – Cunard liner is launched by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Govan
26 November – The original Jenners department store in Edinburgh is destroyed by fire.
South Parish Church, Aberdeen opened
Foundation stone of new St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh laid.
Scottish Church Society founded.
New Templeton's Carpet Factory building on Glasgow Green completed.
Alexander Grant develops the original recipe for McVitie's digestive biscuit in Edinburgh.

Births

25 March – Andy Clyde, screen actor
13 April – Robert Watson-Watt, pioneer of radar
11 August – Hugh MacDiarmid, poet
2 October – Mab Copland Lineman, attorney in the United States
14 October – Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah, born Elizabeth Louise MacKenzie, writer as Morag Murray Abdullah
14 November – Nora Connolly O'Brien, Irish political activist, daughter of James Connolly
18 November – D. E. Stevenson, romantic novelist
14 December – Jimmy McColl, footballer
25 December – Dorothy Johnstone, painter

Deaths

28 August – William Forbes Skene, historian and antiquary
22 September – George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
23 September – George Grub, church historian
5 October – Alexander Carnegie Kirk, mechanical engineer

The arts

October – first Gaelic mòd, predecessor of the Royal National Mòd, held in Oban
7 November – Empire Palace Theatre opens in Edinburgh, designed for impresario Edward Moss by Frank Matcham