1877 in Scotland

Events from the year 1877 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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.

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)

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)

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.

^ Everett, Jason M. (ed.) (2006). "1877". The People's Chronology. Thomson Gale.
^ "Mariners and Seamen". The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee. 2011. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
^ "Blantyre Disaster 22nd October 1877". Scottish Mining Website. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
^ Thomson, Andrew (2018-06-10). "Stars and gripes: When US President Ulysses S Grant came to Scotland". BBC. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
^ "History". Ardverikie Estate Limited. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-05.
^ Smith, Alexander (1952). The Third Statistical Account of Scotland: County of Fife. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. pp. 287–8. OCLC 41800432
^ Dohner, Janet Vorwald (June 2010). "Ayrshire Cattle: Heritage Livestock Breeds". Mother Earth News. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
^ Hunt, Chris (ed.) (2006). William McGonagall: Collected Poems. Edinburgh: Birlinn. p. vi. ISBN 9781841584775.