1850 in Scotland

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1850
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1850 in: The UKWalesElsewhere

Events from the year 1850 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateAndrew Rutherfurd
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandThomas Maitland; then James Moncreiff

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice GeneralLord Boyle
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Glencorse

Events[]

  • 1 AprilAberdeen Railway opens to a terminus at Ferryhill, Aberdeen.
  • 15 April – iron paddle steamer SS City of Glasgow, launched on 28 February by Tod & Macgregor of Partick, makes her maiden voyage as the first steamer on the Glasgow–New York route.
  • 18 June – paddle steamer Orion sinks off Portpatrick[1] through the negligence of her master with the loss of 50 lives.
  • 17 OctoberJames Young patents a method of distilling paraffin from coal, laying the foundations for the Scottish paraffin industry.
  • December – destitute Gaelic speakers from the island of Barra begin to appear in Glasgow, displaced by the Highland Clearances.
  • Cox Brothers open the Camperdown Works in Dundee which will become the world's largest jute works.
  • Remodelling of Dunrobin Castle completed.
  • Skara Brae revealed by weather.

Births[]

  • 4 FebruaryThomas Lomar Gray, seismologist (died 1908 in the United States)
  • 24 AprilMurdo MacKenzie, businessman (died 1939 in the United States)
  • 30 AprilGeorge Gibb, transport administrator (died 1925 in London)
  • 12 MayCharles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, jurist, landowner, industrialist and Unionist politician (died 1934 in London)
  • 14 JuneEliza Humphreys, née Gollan (pen name 'Rita'), novelist (died 1938 in England)
  • 13 AugustPeter Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (died 1918)
  • 22 AugustWilliam Morrison, chemist, creator of an electric carriage (died 1927 in the United States)
  • 13 NovemberRobert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (died 1894 in Samoa)
  • 11 DecemberMary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, married into European nobility (died 1922 in Budapest)

Deaths[]

  • 26 JanuaryFrancis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (born 1773)
  • 5 JuneThomas Brown, architect (born 1781)
  • 18 JuneJohn Burns, surgeon (born 1775) (in PS Orion disaster)
  • 12 JulyRobert Stevenson, civil engineer noted for lighthouses (born 1772)[2]
  • 3 DecemberJohn Gibb, civil engineer and contractor (born 1776)
  • 29 DecemberWilliam Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (born 1792 in Ireland)
  • Approximate date – Walter Sutherland, last native speaker of the Norn language on Unst

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Kennedy, John (2007). The History of Steam Navigation. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4304-8330-4.
  2. ^ "Robert Stevenson". Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
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