1834 in Scotland

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1834 in: The UK • Wales • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1834 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Francis Jeffrey until May; then John Murray until November; then Sir William Rae, Bt
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Cockburn; then Andrew Skene; then Duncan McNeill

Judiciary[]

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

Events[]

  • May – Dean Bridge in Edinburgh opened to horse and cart traffic.[1]
  • 29 July – a steam carriage designed by John Scott Russell on the Glasgow–Paisley road overturns and suffers a boiler explosion causing the death of four passengers.[2]
  • 11 September – emigrant ship Sybelle out of Cromarty wrecked off St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia) with the loss of all 316 passengers and all but six of her crew.[3]
  • 9 October – first shipment of tea direct from India arrives at the Broomielaw quay in Glasgow.[4]
  • 26 December – Ursulines of Jesus take up residence at St Margaret’s Convent in the Whitehouse in Edinburgh, the first Roman Catholic convent established in Scotland since the Reformation;[5] it will be another 5 years before the first such modern establishment in England.
  • Naval architect John Scott Russell first observes a nondecaying solitary wave (a soliton, which he calls "the Wave of Translation") while watching a boat hauled through the water of the Union Canal near Edinburgh, subsequently using a tank to study the dependence of solitary wave velocities on amplitude and liquid depth.[6]
  • Thomas Henderson is appointed first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
  • Edinburgh Geological Society is established.
  • Princess Royal Maternity Hospital is established as the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary.
  • Annan Bridge built by Robert Stevenson.
  • Moffat Academy is established by merger of the local grammar and parish schools.
  • Charles Randolph establishes the millwrighting business of Randolph & Elliott in the Tradeston district of Glasgow, predecessor of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company.[7]
  • The McGeoch family establish a pawnbrokers in Paisley, predecessor of the chain store M&Co. (Mackays).
  • The Second (New) Statistical Account of Scotland begins publication under the auspices of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
  • The Evangelical Thomas Chalmers becomes chairman of the General Assembly's church extension committee.[8]
  • The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews gains its royal patronage.

Births[]

  • 27 January – Alexander Asher, politician and Solicitor General for Scotland (died 1905)
  • 16 March – James Hector, geologist (died 1907 in New Zealand)[9]
  • 5 April – Robert Rowand Anderson, architect (died 1921)
  • 12 April – William Hope, soldier, recipient of the Victorian Cross (died 1909 in London)
  • 27 April – Margaret Macpherson Grant, heiress and philanthropist (died 1877)
  • 22 August – George Kynoch, businessman (died 1891 in South Africa)
  • 17 September – Robert Simpson, retail merchant (died 1897 in Canada)
  • 1 October – Mary Mackellar, née Cameron, Gaelic poet and translator (died 1890)
  • 12 October – Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, né Stewart, politician (died 1923)
  • 23 November – James Thomson ("B.V."), poet (died 1882 in London)
  • Probable date – Peter Dodds McCormick, schoolteacher, composer of the Australian national anthem (died 1916 in Australia)

Deaths[]

  • 26 March – Jean Armour, widow of Robert Burns (born 1765)
  • 9 June – John Henry Wishart, surgeon (born 1781)
  • 12 July – David Douglas, botanist (born 1799; died in Hawaii)
  • 2 September – Thomas Telford, civil engineer (born 1757; died in London)
  • 16 September – William Blackwood, publisher and writer (born 1776)
  • 21 September – Robert Edmonstone, painter (born 1794)
  • 24 November – John Gillies, botanist (born 1792)
  • 5 December – Thomas Pringle, writer, poet and abolitionist (born 1789; died in London)
  • 7 December – Edward Irving, founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church (born 1792)
  • Anne Forbes, portrait painter (born 1745)
  • Probable date – Sarah Bezra Nicol, actress (born in England)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Catford, E. F. (1975). Edinburgh: The Story of a City. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-123850-1.
  2. ^ "Lamentable Accident". Caledonian Mercury. 31 July 1834. p. 4.
  3. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1225. 24 October 1834.
  4. ^ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Introduction" (pdf). Edinburgh: The Gillis Centre. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  6. ^ Russell, J. Scott (September 1844), "Report on waves" (PDF), Fourteenth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, York, pp. 311–390, retrieved 28 August 2012
  7. ^ "Charles Randolph". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  8. ^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 87.
  9. ^ Dell, R.K. (1990). "Hector, James". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
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