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Events from the year 1899 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson to 21 November; then Lord Blair Balfour
 - Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
 
Events
- March – supposed last duel in Scotland, fought with swords in the University of Glasgow over the appointment of a Rector, perhaps a student hoax.[1]
 - 13 March – Japanese battleship Asahi launched by John Brown & Company, Clydebank.
 - 16 June – Penicuik House gutted by fire.
 - July – Norman Heathcote climbs the St Kilda sea stack Stac Lee with his sister Evelyn.[2]
 - November – English occultist Aleister Crowley purchases Boleskine House near Foyers on the shore of Loch Ness from the Fraser family, occupying it until 1913.
 - 7 December – Flannan Isles Lighthouse first lit.
 - 15 December – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.[3]
 - 30 December – the Albion Motor Car Company is set up in Glasgow; and the first Argyll car is also produced this year.
 - George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, presents Iona Abbey and other sacred sites of the island of Iona to the Iona Cathedral Trust (linked to the Church of Scotland).[4]
 - First Skerries Bridge, linking Bruray to Housay in the Out Skerries, is built.
 
Births
- 24 June – Bruce Marshall, writer (died 1987 in France)
 - 21 July – David Broadfoot, seaman awarded the George Cross for his role during the sinking of MV Princess Victoria (died 1959)
 - 8 October – Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan, civil engineer (died 1985 in England)
 
Deaths
- 6 June – Robert Wallace, classics teacher, minister, university professor, newspaper editor, barrister and Member of Parliament (born 1831)
 - 14 September – William Watson, Baron Watson, former Lord Advocate (born 1827)
 
See also
References
- ↑ "Hit and myth: Was Scotland's last duel a joke?". The Scotsman. 21 February 2004. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
 - ↑ Described in his book St Kilda (1900).
 - ↑ "Congratulations to the Glasgow School of Art as they celebrate 100th anniversary of the Mackintosh Building". Museums Galleries Scotland. 15 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 February 2010. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
 - ↑ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. pp. 80–84. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
 
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