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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{refimprove|date=June 2013}}{{Year in Scotland| 1890 }}Events from the year 1890 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Marquess of Lothian
Law officers - Lord Advocate – James Robertson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Moir Tod Stormonth Darling; then Sir Charles Pearson
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events - 11 February – the Partick by-election in Lanarkshire is won by the Liberal Unionist candidate James Parker Smith.[1]
- 4 March – the Forth Bridge (1,710 ft) is opened to rail traffic.[2]
- 15 May – new elected county councils in Scotland, created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, take up their powers. The County of Edinburgh formally adopts the title Midlothian; the formerly administratively separate counties of Ross and Cromarty are merged; former enclaves of Moray in Inverness-shire and vice versa are absorbed into the surrounding counties; and the Shetland county council formally adopts the spelling Zetland.
- Tunnock's bakers established in Uddingston.[3]
- Construction of the village of Fortingall on Sir Donald Currie's Glenlyon Estate in Perthshire begins to "Arts and Crafts" vernacular designs by James MacLaren (died 20 October).
- East End Exhibition opens in Glasgow and International Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry staged in Edinburgh.
The arts- William McGonagall's Poetic Gems published.
Births - 3 January – Willa Muir, born Wilhelmina Johnston Anderson, translator (died 1970)
- 30 January – Andy Cunningham, international footballer (died 1973)
- 10 September – Mortimer Wheeler, archaeologist (died 1976)
- Mary Newbery Sturrock, artist and designer (died 1955)
Deaths - 3 May – James B. Beck, United States Senator from Kentucky (1877–1890) (born 1822)
- 2 June – Sir George Burns, shipowner (born 1795)
- 25 June – Sir James Gowans, architect and building contractor (born 1821)
- 10 August – William Edward Baxter, businessman, travel writer and Liberal Member of Parliament for Montrose Burghs (1855–1885) (born 1825)
- 22 November – William Bell Scott, artist and poet (born 1811)
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
- 1890 in the United Kingdom
References 1. ^{{cite book|last1=Cawood|first1=Ian|title=The Liberal Unionist Party: A History|date=2012|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=9780857736529|page=269|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d-_wAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269|language=en}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
3. ^{{cite web|last1=Gillan|first1=Audrey|title=The strange case of the Tunnock’s teacakes {{!}} Audrey Gillan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/06/tunnocks-teacake-scottish-british-nationalists-boycott|website=The Guardian|accessdate=10 January 2018|date=6 January 2016}}
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