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1904 in Scotland


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Events from the year 1904 in Scotland.

  • Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Andrew Murray

  • Lord Advocate – Charles Dickson

  • Solicitor General for Scotland – David Dundas

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Blair Balfour

  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

  • 28 June – the Danish liner SS Norge is wrecked off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.

  • 1 August – a judgement on appeal to the House of Lords in the case of Bannatyne v Overtoun (in which the minority Free Church of Scotland challenged the new United Free Church of Scotland) is delivered.

  • 17 September – new St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow, opened.

  • 31 December – Glasgow-registered cargo steamers Stromboli and Kathleen collide and sink at Garvel Point, Greenock.

  • Hyskeir Lighthouse completed.

  • The Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art is renamed as the Royal Scottish Museum.

  • Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh, founded.

  • First West Highland White Terrier breed club set up.

  • 4 January – Erik Chisholm, composer (died 1965 in South Africa)

  • 26 April – Jimmy McGrory, international footballer and manager (died 1982)

  • 28 May – Anne Gillespie Shaw, engineer and businesswoman (died 1982)

  • 25 June – Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, historian and biographer (died 1976)

  • 14 August – Lindley Fraser, academic economist and broadcaster (died 1963 in London)

  • 23 August – William Primrose, violist (died in Provo, Utah 1982)

  • 20 October – Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan and pioneer of medicare (died 1986 in Canada)

  • 3 November – Jennie Lee, politician (died 1988)

  • 20 November – John MacCormick, lawyer and advocate of Home Rule for Scotland (died 1961)

  • Edward Baird, painter (died 1949)

  • Margaret MacDonald, royal servant (died 1993)

  • Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (died 1967)

  • 16 April – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (born 1812)

  • 25 May – David Sime Cargill, industrialist (born 1826)

  • 19 June – Mungo Park, golfer (born 1836)

  • 7 October – Isabella Bird, traveller (born 1831 in Yorkshire)

  • 12 November – George Lennox Watson, naval architect (born 1851)

  • 25 December – James Brown, poet and essayist, known as J. B. Selkirk (born 1832)

  • 29 February – the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, opens as a music hall.

  • 12 September – the King's Theatre, Glasgow, opens.

  • 27 December – J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.

  • Hill House, Helensburgh, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is completed.

  • Timeline of Scottish history

  • 1904 in Ireland

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