1902 in Scotland

Events from the year 1902 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Lord Balfour of Burleigh

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Andrew Murray
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Dickson

Judiciary

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

Events

• 5 April – The original Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match. 25 people die and 517 are injured.
• 29 July – St Lawrence's Church, Dingwall (Roman Catholic) opens.
• 15 October – The North British Hotel in Edinburgh opens its doors for the first time.
• 2 November – The first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia.
• 10 November – Percival Spencer and the Rev. J. M. Bacon make the first-ever hot air balloon flight from the Isle of Man, landing in Dumfriesshire.
• Pulteneytown merged into the burgh of Wick.

Births

• 16 January (in China) – Eric Liddell, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary (died 1945 in a Japanese-run internment camp in China)
• 26 March – Marion Cameron Gray, mathematician (died 1979)
• 27 March – Kenneth Macpherson, cinematographer (died 1971 in Tuscany)
• 24 July – Renée Houston, née Katherina Houston Gribbin, comedy actress (died 1980)
• 19 August – Fyfe Robertson, television presenter (died 1987)
• 28 October – Jenny Gilbertson, née Brown, documentary filmmaker (died 1990)

Deaths

• 20 February – David MacGibbon, architect (born 1831)
• 29 June – John Stuart McCaig of Muckairn and Soroba, creator of McCaig's Tower, Oban (born 1823)
• 16 July – Henry Dunning Macleod, economist (born 1821)
• 28 August – George Douglas Brown, novelist (born 1869)
• 29 September – William McGonagall, weaver, doggerel poet and tragedian (born 1825)

The arts

• First modern play in Scottish Gaelic staged, in Edinburgh.
• The Classical Association of Scotland founded

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1902 in the United Kingdom

References