Events from the year 1888 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 3 January â James Bridie (O. H. Mavor), playwright (died 1951)
- 13 February â Andrew Dewar Gibb, lawyer and Scottish National Party politician (died 1974)
- 8 March â John Nicholson, footballer (died 1970 in England)
- 19 April â Walter Elliot, Unionist politician (died 1958)
- 6 June â Scottie Wilson, né Louis Freeman, artist (died 1972 in England)
- 7 June â Hilda Matheson, pioneering radio talks producer, born in London (died 1940 in England)
- 7 July â Edith Hughes, née Burnet, architect (died 1971)
- 14 August â John Logie Baird, engineer and inventor (died 1946)
- 5 September â Jack Miles, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia (died 1969 in Australia)
- 7 October â Cecil Coles, composer (killed in action 1918)
- Approximate date â Alexander MacRae, clothing manufacturer (died 1938 in Australia)
Deaths
Art
J. M. Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls is published.
See also
References