1905 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1905 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
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- Monarch — Edward VII
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal — Andrew Murray until 2 February; then The Marquess of Linlithgow until 4 December; then John Sinclair
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — Charles Dickson until December; then Thomas Shaw
- Solicitor General for Scotland — David Dundas; then Edward Theodore Salvesen; then James Avon Clyde; then Alexander Ure
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Blair Balfour until 22 January; then from 4 February Lord Dunedin
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- January — Strathaven Academy opens.
- 28 September — Talla Reservoir officially opened to serve the Edinburgh district.
- 31 October — Perth Corporation Tramways commence electric operation.
- 18 November — First rugby match between New Zealand and Scotland, played at Murrayfield.
- 19 November — 39 men die in a fire at a model lodging house in Watson Street, Glasgow.[1]
- St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee, raised to cathedral status in the Episcopal church.
- David Coupar Thomson sets up the Dundee publisher D. C. Thomson & Co.
- Scottish Motor Traction is set up in Edinburgh as a motor bus operator.
- Victoria Bridge, Mar Lodge Estate, erected.
- Approximate date — The earliest Rolls-Royce 10 hp car to survive into the 21st century is acquired by Kenneth Gillies of Tain; it remains in Scotland until the time of World War I.[2]
Births
- 6 April — Johnny Ramensky, career criminal, employed as a commando for his safe-cracking abilities (died 1972)
- 19 April — Jim Mollison, aviator (died 1959)
- 12 May — Alex Jackson, international footballer (died 1946)
- 12 July — John Maxwell, landscape painter (died 1962)
- 19 July — Robert Hurd, influential conservation architect (died 1963)
- 20 August — Duncan Macrae, actor (died 1967)
- 6 September — William McEwan Younger, brewer and Unionist politician (died 1992 in England)
- 9 December — Janet Adam Smith, writer and mountaineer (died 1999)
- Norman Cameron, poet (born in Bombay; died 1953 in London)
Deaths
- 21 January — Robert Brough, painter, died in a railway disaster (born 1872)
- 5 August — Alexander Asher, Liberal politician and Solicitor General for Scotland (born 1834)
- 16 August — Jamie Anderson, golfer (born 1842)
- 22 August — David Binning Monro, Homeric scholar (born 1836)
- 18 September — George MacDonald, author, poet and Christian minister (born 1844)
- 8 October — Allan MacDonald, Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (born 1859)
- 27 October — Ralph Copeland, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (born 1837 in England)
- 7 November — Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist (born 1855)
- 12 December — William Sharp, poet and literary biographer (born 1855)
The Arts
- 16 January — Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.
- Harry Lauder writes the popular song "I Love a Lassie".