1898 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1898 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
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- Monarch — Queen Victoria
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Robertson
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- 22 January — The People's Palace on Glasgow Green opens.[1]
- 1 November — Completion throughout of the Highland Railway's Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway.
- The Madelvic Motor Carriage Company opens its factory for the manufacture of electric vehicles in Granton, Edinburgh, one of the first purpose-built car factories in the U.K. The company goes into liquidation in December 1899.[2]
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh carries out the interior design for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Argyle Street, Glasgow, including the first appearance of his characteristic high-backed chair.
- Scottish-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie purchases Skibo Castle in Sutherland (which he has been leasing for a year).
- Construction of Glenborrodale Castle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula as a guest residence for mining magnate Charles Rudd by architect Sydney Mitchell begins.[3]
Births
- 2 March — Hughie Ferguson, footballer (suicide 1930)
- 28 April — William Soutar, poet (died 1943)
- 18 July — John Stuart, actor (died 1979)
- 31 July — Doris Zinkeisen, theatrical designer and commercial artist (died 1991 in England)
- 11 September — John Meikle, winner of the Victoria Cross (killed 1918 on the Western Front (World War I))
- Duncan Campbell, revivalist (died 1972)
- William Gillies, painter (died 1973)
Deaths
- 21 July — William Alexander Hunter, academic lawyer and Liberal politician (born 1844)
- 16 October — John Ritchie Findlay, newspaper owner and philanthropist (born 1824)
- 10 December — William Black, novelist (born 1841)
