Scotsman. One of the two daily newspapers which has laid claim to be Scotland's ‘national’ newspaper, the other being the Herald (formerly Glasgow Herald). Their competitiveness has symbolized the Edinburgh–Glasgow rivalry for pre-eminence in Scotland. Both have followed a broadly similar trajectory—founded as weeklies (the Herald as the Glasgow Advertiser in 1783, the Scotsman in 1817), becoming dailies in the 1850s; and politically turning from an early Liberalism to Unionism and a broad Conservatism over Gladstone's Irish Home Rule policies. Both were latterly acquired by press magnates—the Scotsman by Lord Thomson in 1953, and the Herald by Sir Hugh Fraser in 1964, then ‘Tiny’ Rowland in 1979.

Douglas J. Allen

Scots·man / ˈskätsmən/ (also fem. Scots·wom·an) • n. (pl. -men) a male native or national of Scotland or a man of Scottish descent.