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List of events
Events from the year 1885 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
18 April –
Scottish Catholic Observer first published as The Glasgow Observer .
1 June – the
Glasgow and South Western Railway 's
Largs Branch is completed throughout to
Largs .
[1]
10 June –
breed standard for
Highland cattle first defined (in Inverness) and
herd book first produced.
[2]
27 June –
The Shetland News first published in
Lerwick .
1 July – the Glasgow and South Western Railway's
Paisley Canal Line is opened on the course of the abandoned
Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal .
6 August – the
Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway is officially formed, in the joint ownership of the
Caledonian , Glasgow and South Western,
London and North Western and
Midland Railways .
17 August – the post of
Secretary for Scotland is revived to be in charge of the
Scottish Office ,
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond , being the first appointee.
1 October – the
Alloa Railway 's Alloa swing bridge over the
River Forth is opened.
24 November –
18 December :
1885 United Kingdom general election : five MPs from or allied with the
Crofters Party are elected.
General Accident and Employers' Liability Assurance Association Ltd., a predecessor of
Aviva , established in
Perth .
Ailsa Shipbuilding Company established at
Troon .
North British Distillery established in Edinburgh.
Scapa distillery established on
Mainland, Orkney .
Hugh Tennent first brews
lager at the
Wellpark Brewery , Glasgow.
Experimental
hydroelectricity scheme for public supply at
Greenock initiated.
Fidra lighthouse built.
Births
21 January –
Duncan Grant , painter (died 1978 in England)
16 February –
Will Fyffe , music hall entertainer (died
1947 )
23 March –
John Fraser , surgeon and academic (died 1947)
8 April –
John Kerr , cricketer (died
1972 )
29 April –
Andrew Young , poet and clergyman (died 1971 in England)
22 June –
James Maxton , socialist and leader of the
Independent Labour Party (died
1946 )
8 September –
Douglas Guthrie ,
otolaryngologist and medical historian (died
1975 )
13 September –
John Beazley , Classical archaeologist (died
1970 )
1 October –
William Miller Macmillan , colonial historian (died 1974 in England)
F. Marian McNeill , folklorist (died
1973 )
Winifred Rushforth , née Bartholomew, psychoanalyst (died
1983 )
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