1877 in Scotland

Events from the year 1877 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – William Watson
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Macdonald

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

Events

 * 24 April – six Scotch whisky distilleries combine to form Distillers Company.
 * 16 October – the Abertay light vessel is moored on station off Dundee, Scotland's first lightvessel.
 * 22 October – Blantyre mining disaster: Scotland's worst-ever mining accident kills over 200.
 * 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.
 * The rebuilt Ardverikie House in Badenoch, designed by John Rhind, is completed.
 * 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.
 * Separate U.K. Ayrshire cattle and Galloway cattle societies established and herd books set up.
 * A breed register for the Clydesdale horse is established.

Births

 * 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)

Deaths

 * 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)

The arts

 * William McGonagall discovers himself to be a poet (according to his own account).
 * Robert Louis Stevenson's first published works of fiction appear in magazines.