1842 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1842 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt until October; then Duncan McNeill
  • Solicitor General for Scotland – Duncan McNeill; then Adam Anderson

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle
  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope

Events[]

  • 3 January – 3rd Scottish Convention of Chartists opens in Glasgow.[1]
  • 21 February – Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened.[2]
  • 29 April – New Market opened in Aberdeen.[3]
  • May – the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland makes a "Claim of Rights" (drafted by Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop) asserting the church's independence of state control in spiritual matters.[4]
  • 1 September – Queen Victoria arrives by sea at Granton, Edinburgh, to start her first visit to Scotland.[5]
  • September – Robert Davidson's experimental battery-electric locomotive Galvani is demonstrated on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
  • The Sobieski Stuarts' Vestiarium Scoticum is published in Edinburgh, purporting to be a reproduction from an old manuscript illustrating traditional Scottish clan tartan dress.
  • A velocipede rider from Dumfriesshire, perhaps Kirkpatrick Macmillan, knocks down a pedestrian in the Gorbals district of Glasgow.[6]
  • James Shanks patents and begins to produce the pony-drawn lawn mower.[7]
  • Carnoustie Golf Links opened.[8]

Births[]

  • 16 April – Laidlaw Purves, surgeon and golfer (died 1917 in England)
  • 1 May – David Boyle, archaeologist in Canada (died 1911)
  • 27 June – Jamie Anderson, golfer (died 1905)
  • 20 September – James Dewar chemist and physicist (died 1923)
  • 12 October – Robert Gillespie Reid, railway contractor in Canada (died 1908)

Deaths[]

  • 28 April – Charles Bell, surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian (born 1774)
  • 31 May – James Fergusson, judge (born 1769)
  • 12 December – Robert Haldane, theologian (born 1764 in London)
  • 24 December – Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, judge (born 1760)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Wilson, Alexander (1970). The Chartist Movement in Scotland. Manchester University Press. ISBN 071900411X.
  2. ^ Glasgow Constitutional (22 February 1842). "Opening Of The Edinburgh And Glasgow Railway". The Times. No. 17913. London. p. 6.
  3. ^ "The New Market". Leopard. Aberdeen: 32–5. November 1974.
  4. ^ Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 87.
  5. ^ "Victoria's Visit". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  6. ^ Johnston, James (Winter 1899). "The first bicycle". The Gallovidian. Dumfries. 4.
  7. ^ "History of the Lawnmower: Part One: 1830-1850s". The Hall & Duck Trust. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  8. ^ The World Atlas of Golf, 2nd ed. (1988); Finegan, James W., Scotland: Where Golf is Great (2010).
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