1816 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1816 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

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

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun; then Alexander Maconochie
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Maconochie; then James Wedderburn

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
  • Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

Events[]

  • April – Highland Clearances: Factor Patrick Sellar is tried but acquitted at Inverness of culpable homicide during the mass expulsion of crofting tenants from Strathnaver in 1814.[1]
  • 21 May – Highland Society of London (established 1778) incorporated by Act of Parliament.
  • 18 June – causeway, bridge and sluice across Loch Fleet at The Mound, designed by Thomas Telford, completed.
  • 13 August – an earthquake in Inverness is the strongest ever in Scotland.[2]
  • 1 September – the Northern Lighthouse Board's new light on the Isle of May, designed by Robert Stevenson, is completed.[3]
  • The Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on Calton Hill, is completed.
  • Logie Bridge at Ferness completed to a design by Telford;[4] as also is the bridge at Contin and the harbour at Portmahomack.
  • Suspension footbridge erected over the Gala Water in Galashiels[5] and upper arch bridge at Rumbling Bridge completed.
  • David Brewster discovers stress birefringence.
  • Rev. Robert Stirling obtains a U.K. patent for the Stirling hot air engine.
  • Lagavulin distillery established on Islay.
  • St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow, is completed as the city's first post-Reformation Roman Catholic church (architect: James Gillespie Graham).
  • First Jewish community in Edinburgh in modern times established.
  • The Edinburgh Races and Caledonian Hunt are held for the first time at Musselburgh Racecourse rather than on the sands of Leith.[6][7]

Births[]

  • 5 January
    • James Brunlees, civil engineer (died 1892)
    • Daniel Wilson, archaeologist and academic (died 1892 in Canada)
  • 11 January – Henry Robertson, railway promoter (died 1888 in Wales)
  • 3 February – Archibald McKellar, politician in Ontario (died 1894 in Canada)
  • 14 February – James Morison, evangelical (died 1893)
  • 13 June – Charles Alexander, merchant and politician in Quebec (died 1905 in Canada)
  • 1 September – James Drummond, historical painter and curator (died 1877)
  • 16 September – Theodore Martin, writer (died 1909)
  • 30 September – Archibald Sturrock, steam locomotive engineer (died 1909)
  • 12 October – Alexander Bryson, scientist (died 1866)

Deaths[]

  • 22 February – Adam Ferguson, philosopher and historian (born 1723)
  • 28 February – Archibald Bruce, theologian (born 1746)
  • 14 June – Allan Maconochie, jurist (born 1748)
  • 25 December – Hercules Ross, merchant in Jamaica (born 1745)

The arts[]

  • Walter Scott's novels The Antiquary, The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality are published.
  • The Elgin Marbles are purchased by the British government from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, for the British Museum in London.

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history
  • 1816 in the United Kingdom

References[]

  1. ^ Richards, Eric (2004). "Sellar, Patrick (1780–1851)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25055. Retrieved 9 March 2016. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. ^ The Guinness Book of Answers (3rd ed.). Enfield: Guinness Superlatives. 1980. p. 56. ISBN 0-85112-202-7.
  3. ^ "Isle of May". Northern Lighthouse Board. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  4. ^ "Logie Bridge". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  5. ^ "1816 Galashiels". Bridgemeister. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  6. ^ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  7. ^ "Horse-racing at Musselburgh". Haddington, East Lothian: John Gray Centre. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
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