Events from the year 1876 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers Lord Advocate – Edward Strathearn Gordon until July; then William Watson Solicitor General for Scotland – William Watson; then John Macdonald

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

Events 14 February – Alexander Graham Bell files a patent for the telephone in the United States. 19 February – Partick Thistle F.C. play their first match. 5 April – River Dee Ferry Boat Disaster: 32 drown. 18 June – promenade on the roof of Waverley Market opens in Edinburgh; this year also West Princes Street Gardens pass to the city's council as a public park. 17 October – St Enoch railway station officially opens in Glasgow. 3 November – McLean Museum opens in Greenock. William Forbes Skene's Celtic Scotland: a History of Ancient Alban begins publication in Edinburgh. Camp Coffee is first produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow.

Births 23 March – Muirhead Bone, etcher (died 1953) 13 April – Robert Smyth McColl, footballer and retail store founder (died 1959) 19 June – Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer (died 1941) 6 September – John James Rickard Macleod, physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935) 3 October – Thomas Haining Gillespie, founder of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Edinburgh Zoo (died 1967) 22 October – Cecilia Loftus, born Marie Cecilia Loftus Brown, actress in music hall and legitimate theatre (died 1943 in the United States) 4 November – Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, soldier and Chief of the Name (died 1951) 7 November – Alex Smith, international footballer (died 1954) 17 December – Archibald Main, ecclesiastical historian (died 1947) 18 December – Henry Wade, surgeon (died 1955) Joseph Lee, poet and journalist (died 1949)

Deaths 9 January – Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (born 1843) 22 January – Sir George Harvey, genre painter (born 1806) 3 February – Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (born 1813) 24 April – Henry Dübs, steam locomotive manufacturer (born 1816 in Germany) 7 May – David Bryce, architect (born 1803) 23 June – Robert Napier, engineer, "Father of Clyde Shipbuilding" (born 1791) 23 December – Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves, judge and poet (born 1800)

See also Timeline of Scottish history 1876 in Ireland

References