1894 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1894 in Scotland.

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt

• Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour

• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher; then Thomas Shaw

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson

• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

• 5 July – racing cutter Valkyrie II (1893) collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality.

• 11 July – rebuilt St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, dedicated.

• July – Marion Gilchrist becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university.

• 7 August – the West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William.

• 25 August – Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 receives royal assent. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.

• December – Longmorn distillery begins production.

• Lady Victoria Colliery comes into production at Newtongrange, Midlothian.

• McVitie's biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt.

• Elsie Inglis sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh.

• Craigholme School founded by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as Pollokshields Ladies' School.

• Alyth golf course laid out by Old Tom Morris.

• Marion Adams-Acton publishes Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history.

• 26 March – Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer (died 1985)

• 13 May – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (died 1968)

• 28 June – Allardyce Nicoll, literary scholar (died 1976 in England)

• 29 June – David Steele, international footballer and manager (died 1964)

• 14 October – Victoria Drummond, marine engineer (died 1978 in England)

• Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer (died 1972)

• R. M. Smyllie, journalist (died 1954 in Ireland)

• 3 September – John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian (born 1829)

• 3 December – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1850; dies on Samoa)

• Alexander Henry, gun maker and rifle volunteer (born 1818)

• Ian Maclaren's stories Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush are published.

• Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863 in the United States) dies; Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir is published posthumously edited by Andrew Lang.

• Timeline of Scottish history

• 1894 in Ireland