1904 in Scotland
Events from the year 1904 in Scotland.
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| See also: | List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1904 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere Scottish football: 1903–04 • 1904–05  | ||||
Incumbents
    
    Law officers
    
Events
    
- 28 June – the Danish liner SS Norge is wrecked off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.[1]
 - 1 August – a judgement on appeal to the House of Lords in the case of Bannatyne v Overtoun (in which the minority Free Church of Scotland challenged the new United Free Church of Scotland) is delivered.
 - 17 September – new St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow, opened.
 - 31 December – Glasgow-registered cargo steamers Stromboli and Kathleen collide and sink at Garvel Point, Greenock.[2]
 - Hyskeir Lighthouse completed.
 - The Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art is renamed as the Royal Scottish Museum.
 - Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh, founded.
 - First West Highland White Terrier breed club set up.
 
Births
    
- 4 January – Erik Chisholm, composer (died 1965 in South Africa)
 - 26 April – Jimmy McGrory, international footballer and manager (died 1982)
 - 28 May – Anne Gillespie Shaw, engineer and businesswoman (died 1982)[3]
 - 25 June – Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, historian and biographer (died 1976)
 - 14 August – Lindley Fraser, academic economist and broadcaster (died 1963 in London)
 - 23 August – William Primrose, violist (died in Provo, Utah 1982)
 - 20 October – Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan and pioneer of medicare (died 1986 in Canada)
 - 3 November – Jennie Lee, politician (died 1988)
 - 20 November – John MacCormick, lawyer and advocate of Home Rule for Scotland (died 1961)
 - Edward Baird, painter (died 1949)
 - Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist (died 1967)
 
Deaths
    
- 16 April – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (born 1812)
 - 25 May – David Sime Cargill, industrialist (born 1826)
 - 7 October – Isabella Bird, traveller (born 1831 in Yorkshire)
 - 12 November – George Lennox Watson, naval architect (born 1851)
 - 25 December – James Brown, poet and essayist, known as J. B. Selkirk (born 1832)
 
The arts
    
- 29 February – the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, opens as a music hall.
 - 12 September – the King's Theatre, Glasgow, opens.
 - 27 December – J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.[4]
 - Hill House, Helensburgh, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is completed.[5]
 
References
    
- Sebak, Per Kristian (2004). Titanic's Predecessor: the S/S Norge Disaster of 1904. Laksevaag: Seaward. ISBN 82-996779-0-4.
 - "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
 - "Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame". www.engineeringhalloffame.org. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
 - Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
 - Grewe, Armin (2001–2006). "C. R. Mackintosh: Hill House in Helensburgh". The Armin Grewe Homepage. Aldermaston. Archived from the original on 23 June 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
 
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