1817 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1817 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

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

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Alexander Maconochie
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – 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[]

  • 25 January – The Scotsman is first published in Edinburgh as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren.[1]
  • 1 March – suffocating fumes in the Leadhills lead mine kill seven.[2]
  • 1 April – Blackwood's Magazine is launched as the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, a Tory publication. In October the publisher, William Blackwood, relaunches it as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.
  • June – Union Canal authorised.
  • 10 July – David Brewster patents the kaleidoscope.[3]
  • 15 October – school of whales seen in the Tay.
  • November – Thomas Chalmers, in a sermon, appeals for a Christian effort to deal with the social condition of Glasgow.[4]
  • 4 December – The Inverness Courier is first published as a newspaper by John and Christian Isobel Johnstone.
  • Dingwall Canal completed.[5]
  • A typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
  • Dufftown founded by James Duff, 4th Earl Fife, in Moray.
  • St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, opened as St Andrew's Chapel within the Episcopal Church.
  • Calton Gaol, Edinburgh, completed.
  • Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, demolished.
  • Glasgow Botanic Gardens created.
  • Corsewall Lighthouse, designed by Robert Stevenson, first illuminated.[6]
  • Thomas Telford's ferry piers at Invergordon and Inverbreakie are built.
  • Bladnoch distillery founded by John and Thomas McClelland near Wigtown.
  • Teaninich distillery founded by Hugh Munro at Alness.
  • The post of Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow is established by King George III.
  • Approximate date – the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway introduces into service The Duke, the first steam locomotive on a railway in Scotland.

Births[]

  • February – Samuel Morison Brown, chemist, poet and essayist (died 1856)
  • 15 February – Robert Angus Smith, atmospheric chemist (died 1884)
  • 28 February – Walter Hood Fitch, botanical artist (died 1892)
  • 9 April – Alexander Thomson, Greek Revival architect (died 1875)
  • 29 April – Adam White, zoologist (died 1878)
  • 17 May
    • Thomas Davidson, palaeontologist (died 1885)
    • John Ross, explorer (died 1903 in Australia)
  • 22 May – James Macaulay, physician and literary editor (died 1902)
  • 1 June – David Lyall, botanist (died 1895)
  • 16 June – Alexander Forbes, bishop of Brechin (died 1875)
  • 25 August – William Graham, wine merchant, art patron and Liberal politician (died 1885)
  • 8 September – Stephen Hislop, Free Church missionary and geologist (died 1863 in India)
  • 16 September – William Smith, architect (died 1891)
  • 21 September – John Allan Broun, magnetologist (died 1879)
  • 12 October – William Collins, publisher, Lord Provost of Glasgow and temperance activist (died 1895)
  • 17 October – Alexander Mitchell, banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician (died 1887 in the United States)
  • 29 October – Angus Macmillan, shipbuilder and politician on Prince Edward Island (died 1906 in Canada)
  • 4 December – Thomas Thomson, military surgeon and botanist (died 1878 in India)
  • 10 December – Alexander Wood, physician and inventor of the hypodermic syringe (died 1884)
  • John Millar, Lord Craighill, Solicitor General (died 1888)
  • Approximate date – Marion Kirkland Reid, feminist (died 1902?)

Deaths[]

  • 8 February – Francis Horner, Whig politician, journalist, lawyer and political economist (born 1778; died in Italy)
  • 3 September – James Byres of Tonley, art dealer (born 1734)
  • 2 October – Alexander Monro, anatomist (born 1733)
  • 8 October – Henry Erskine, lawyer and Whig politician (born 1746)

The arts[]

  • 19 September – the body of poet Robert Burns (died 1796) is moved to a new mausoleum in Dumfries.[7]
  • 31 December – Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy is published anonymously.

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ "The Scotsman". Edinburgh: The Scotsman Digital Archive. 25 January 1817. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  2. ^ Braid, James (June 1817). "Account of the Fatal Accident which happened in the Leadhills Company's Mines, the 1st March, 1817". The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany. 79: 414–416.
  3. ^ British patent no. 4136. "Brewster Patent" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  4. ^ Gilley, Sheridan; Stanley, Brian (2005). World Christianities c. 1815–c. 1914. Cambridge History of Christianity, volume 8. Cambridge University Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-521-81456-0.
  5. ^ "Dingwall Canal". Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Corsewall". Northern Lighthouse Board. Archived from the original on 2 October 2006. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Robert Burns Mausoleum". Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
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