1873 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1873 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
 - Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
 
Events
- March – Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company (co-founded with William Menzies)
 - 3 March – the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union
 - 13 March – the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association[1]
 - 15 November – statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh[2]
 - Edinburgh Evening News first published
 - Lexicographer James Murray publishes Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland
 - George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecessor of the Weir Group, to Glasgow[3]
 
Births
- 8 April – James Drever, psychologist (died 1950)
 - 13 April – James Salmon, architect (died 1924)
 - 6 July – George Aitken Clark Hutchison, Scottish Unionist MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern (1922–23, 1924–28) (died 1928)
 
Deaths
- 24 February – Thomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist (born 1803)
 - 8 March – Robert William Thomson, engineer, inventor of the bicycle tyre (born 1822)
 - 1 May – David Livingstone, pioneer medical missionary (born 1813)
 - 2 October – John Cunningham, architect (born 1799)
 - 27 October – Janet Hamilton, poet (born 1795)
 - Hugh Fraser, retailer (born 1815)
 
See also
References
- ^ "The Cup". Scottish FA. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
 - ^ "Greyfriars Bobby". Edinburgh Museums & Galleries. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
 - ^ Weir, William (2008). The Weir Group: the history of a Scottish engineering legend, 1872-2008. London: Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-86197-886-8.
 
