1787 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1787 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Ilay Campbell
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas of Arniston

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger until 13 December; then from 22 December, Lord Glenlee
  • Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming, then Lord Braxfield

Events[]

  • 11 January – new Assembly Rooms opened in George Street, Edinburgh.
  • 27 January – Bridge of Dun completed.[1]
  • 1 February – New Club, Edinburgh, founded as a private gentlemen's club.
  • June
    • Patrick Miller of Dalswinton demonstrates his design of manually-propelled paddleboat on the Firth of Forth.
    • Kennetpans Distillery begins to operate a condensing rotative stationary steam engine designed by James Watt, the first in Scotland.[2]
  • Summer – Calton Weavers Strike. On 3 September, six of the Calton weavers are killed by troops.
  • 1 December – Kinnaird Head Lighthouse first illuminated.
  • Catrine is developed on the River Ayr around one of the first cotton mills in Scotland by Claud Alexander of Ballochmyle in partnership with David Dale.[3]
  • The Scotch Distilling Act imposes a tax on gin exported from Scotland to England.
  • Kerelaw House and Tarbat House built.

Births[]

  • 7 January – Patrick Nasmyth, landscape painter (died 1831 in London)
  • 11 February – Alexander Maconochie, naval officer, geographer and penal reformer (died 1860 in England)
  • 14 May – Alexander Laing, "the Brechin poet" (died 1857)
  • 22 November – Robert Balmer, minister of the Secession Church (died 1844)
  • 17 December – John Forbes, physician (died 1861 in England)
  • Susanna Hawkins, poet (died 1868)
  • Hugh Maxwell, lawyer and politician in New York (died 1873 in the United States)

Deaths[]

  • 6 June – Robert Duff, naval officer (born c. 1721)
  • 19 June – John Brown, theologian (born 1722)
  • 5 September – John Brown, portrait-draftsman and painter in Edinburgh (born 1749)
  • 27 December – Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull, politician (born 1710)
  • Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh, Jacobite (born 1723)

The arts[]

  • 17 April – the Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by William Creech including a portrait of Burns by Alexander Nasmyth. The poet has great social success in the city's literary circles; 16-year-old Walter Scott meets him at the house of Adam Ferguson. Burns also writes the first version of "The Battle of Sherramuir" this year.
  • 4 December – Burns meets Agnes Maclehose at a party given by Miss Erskine Nimmo.[4]
  • The Scots Musical Museum begins publication.

Sport[]

  • May – Glasgow Golf Club founded.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Bridge Of Dun, Reference: LB4677". Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Ruined whisky distillery gets new lease of life". The Scotsman. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  3. ^ Stenlake, Richard (2011). A Lot o Genuine Folks and a Wheen o Rogues. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. pp. 10–12. ISBN 9781840335347.
  4. ^ Hecht, Hans (1936). Robert Burns: The Man and His Work. London: William Hodge. p. 106.
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