Events from the year 1891 in

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Incumbents

* Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian

Law officers

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– James Robertson until August; ''vacant'' until October; then Sir Charles Pearson *

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– Sir Charles Pearson; then Andrew Murray

Judiciary

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and

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– Lord Glencorse until 20 August; then from 21 September Lord Robertson *

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– Lord Kingsburgh

Events

* January – attempts by Scottish railway companies to evict their striking workers from company housing are resisted by force. *

30 April Events Pre-1600 * 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends. *1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois. *1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his ...

– An Comunn Gàidhealach is formally instituted. * 21 May –

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and Rangers are declared joint champions after drawing a play-off game 2–2 at

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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 – Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet, Hugh Munro publishes the first table of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), in the Scottish Mountaineering Club ''Journal''; these become known as the Munros. * 16 November–27 February 1892 in Scotland, 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 '':de:Maria Rickmers (Schiff, 1892), Maria Rickmers'' (3,822 Gross register tonnage, GRT), 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 (died 1971 in Scotland, 1971) * 2 April – Jack Buchanan, actor and producer (died 1957) * 9 April – Agnes Mure Mackenzie, historian and writer (died 1955 in Scotland, 1955) * 7 May – Harry McShane, socialist (died 1988 in Scotland, 1988) * 8 November – Neil M. Gunn, novelist (died 1973 in Scotland, 1973)

Deaths

* 12 March – John Dick Peddie, architect, businessman and Liberal Party MP for Kilmarnock Burghs (UK Parliament constituency), Kilmarnock Burghs (1880–1885) (born 1824 in Scotland, 1824) * 19 April – Hugh Smellie, steam locomotive engineer (born 1840 in Scotland, 1840) * 11 May – Alexander Beith, Free Church minister (born 1799 in Scotland, 1799) * 15 September – Sir John Steell, sculptor (born 1804 in Scotland, 1804) * 22 November – John Gregorson Campbell, folklorist and Free Church minister (born 1836 in Scotland, 1836) * 22 December – William Smith (architect), William Smith, architect (born 1817 in Scotland, 1817)

The arts

* J. M. Barrie's novel ''The Little Minister'' is published. * Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Mary MacPherson)'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.

References

{{Years in Scotland 1891 in Scotland, Years of the 19th century in Scotland 1891 in the United Kingdom, Scotland 1890s in Scotland