1877 in Scotland

Events from the year 1877 in Scotland.

← 1876 1875 1874 1873 1872 1877 in Scotland → 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1877 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1876–77 • 1877–78

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Macdonald

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

Events

• 24 April – six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.^[1]
• 16 October – the Abertay light vessel is moored on station off Dundee, Scotland's first lightvessel.^[2]
• 22 October – Blantyre mining disaster: Scotland's worst-ever mining accident kills over 200.^[3]
• 3 December – the original Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute is burned down.
• Ex-President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant tours his ancestral Scotland.^[4]
• The rebuilt Ardverikie House in Badenoch, designed by John Rhind, is completed.^[5]
• Cluny Harbour at Buckie is built.
• Wick Harbour breakwater is washed away in a storm for a second time.
• Mitchell Library established in Glasgow.
• Manufacture of linoleum at Kirkcaldy begins.^[6]
• Separate U.K. Ayrshire cattle and Galloway cattle societies established and herd books set up.^[7]
• A breed register for the Clydesdale horse is established.

Births

• 25 February – John Tait Robertson, international footballer (died 1935)
• 12 May – William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir, industrialist and politician (died 1959)
• 7 August – Leslie Hunter, born George Hunter, painter (died 1931)
• 9 November – Helen Crawfurd, suffragette and communist activist (died 1954)
• 26 November – Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask, whisky distiller (suicide 1924)

Deaths

• 2 January – Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1810)
• 3 February – James Merry, ironmaster, race-horse breeder and Liberal MP (1859–74) (born 1805)
• 14 April – Margaret Macpherson Grant, heiress and philanthropist (born 1834)

The arts

• William McGonagall discovers himself to be a poet (according to his own account).^[8]
• Robert Louis Stevenson's first published works of fiction appear in magazines.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1877 in Ireland