2 April –
William Adamson, trade unionist and politician, leader of the
Labour Party (1917–21) and Secretary of State for Scotland (1924 & 1929–31) (died
1936)
17 May –
Stewart Gray, lawyer, campaigner for social justice and patron of the arts (died 1937 in England)
Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston)'s
Gaelic poem on the
Clearances on his native Islay, Fios Thun A' Bhard, is published as a broadsheet in Glasgow.[6]
^Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rose; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Siân (eds.). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 8.
ISBN9781474436281.
^Osborne, Brian; Armstrong, Ronald. "Introduction", Para Handy: The Complete Edition.