Events from the year 1856 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 30 May â James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, sculptor and poet (died 1938)
- 5 July â Ion Keith-Falconer, road racing cyclist, Arabic scholar and missionary (died 1887 in Aden)
- 15 August â Keir Hardie, socialist and labour leader (died 1915)
- 13 September â Henry Halcro Johnston, botanist, army physician and rugby union international (died 1939)
- 27 November â Matthew Stirling, locomotive engineer (died 1931 in Hull)
- 1 December â Malcolm Smith, Liberal politician (died 1935)
- William W. Naismith, mountaineer (died 1935)
- William Robertson, industrialist (died 1923)
Deaths
The arts
See also
References