1869 in Scotland

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1869
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Scotland

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Decades:
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  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1869 in: The UKWalesElsewhere

Events from the year 1869 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateJames Moncreiff until October; then George Young
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandGeorge Young; then Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark

Judiciary[]

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

Events[]

  • 5 January – Scotland's oldest professional Association football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
  • 13 January – the story magazine The People's Friend is first published in Dundee; it will continue to be published by D. C. Thomson & Co. more than 140 years later.
  • 27 March – the Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen.[1]
  • 13 September – the Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1 mile 8 chain (1.8 km) viaduct across the Solway Firth.
  • October – the 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).[2]
  • 22 November – the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive in the UK.[3]
  • The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at St Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth (built 1866-8), the first Roman Catholic monastery established in Scotland since the Reformation.[4]
  • Construction of Inverness Cathedral is finished.
  • An Episcopal chapel from St Andrews is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to Buckhaven and re-erected there.[5]
  • The Caledonian Brewery is established in Shandon, Edinburgh, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
  • Thomas McCall of Kilmarnock builds two velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.[6]
  • Glasgow University Rugby Football Club is founded.

Births[]

  • 26 JanuaryGeorge Douglas Brown, novelist (died 1902)
  • 14 FebruaryCharles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
  • 17 AprilRobert Robertson, chemist (died 1949)
  • 11 JuneWalford Bodie, stage magician (died 1939)

Deaths[]

  • 11 JulyWilliam Jerdan, journalist (born 1782)
  • 20 SeptemberGeorge Patton, Lord Glenalmond, judge (born 1803; suicide)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Jho Sho Maru". Aberdeen Built Ships. Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  2. ^ Elston, M. A. (2004). "Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  3. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  4. ^ "St Mary's Monastery (Kinnoull Monastery)". Gazetteer for Scotland. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  5. ^ "History of All Saints' church, St Andrews, From 1824–present". St Andrews: All Saints'. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  6. ^ The English Mechanic and World of Science 14 May & 11 June 1869.
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