1863 in Scotland

Events from the year 1863 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff
• Solicitor General for Scotland – George Young

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond

Events

• 10 January – steamer Bussorah is lost off Islay with all 33 hands on her maiden voyage.
• 17 September – royal burgh of Linlithgow enters bankruptcy.
• 18 September – Willie Park wins his second Open Championship title at Prestwick Golf Club.
• 13 October – the Provostship of Aberdeen is elevated to Lord Provost.
• Overtoun House is completed.

Births

• 15 February – Charlotte Ainslie, educationalist and headmistress (died 1960)
• 2 April – William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, leader of the Labour Party (1917–21) and Secretary of State for Scotland (1924 & 1929–31) (died 1936)
• 17 May – Stewart Gray, lawyer, campaigner for social justice and patron of the arts (died 1937 in England)
• 3 June – Neil Munro, writer (died 1930)
• 1 September – Violet Jacob, born Violet Kennedy-Erskine, historical novelist and poet (died 1946)
• 13 September – Arthur Henderson, first Labour Party cabinet minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935 in England)
• 5 December – George Pirie, painter (died 1946)

Deaths

• 3 July – Alexander Henry Rhind, antiquarian and Egyptologist (born 1833; died in Italy)
• 14 August – Colin Campbell, army commander (born 1792; died in England)

The arts

• Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston)'s Gaelic poem on the Clearances on his native Islay, Fios Thun A' Bhard, is published as a broadsheet in Glasgow.
• George MacDonald's novel David Elginbrod is published.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1863 in the United Kingdom

• 1863 in Ireland

References