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HOW IT WORKS
1850 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1850 in
Scotland
.
←
1849
1848
1847
1846
1845
1850
in
Scotland
→
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
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 UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Andrew Rutherfurd
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Thomas Maitland
; then
James Moncreiff
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Boyle
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Glencorse
Events
edit
1 April
–
Aberdeen 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 October
–
James 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
edit
4 February
–
Thomas Lomar Gray
, seismologist (died
1908 in the United States
)
24 April
–
Murdo MacKenzie
, businessman (died
1939 in the United States
)
30 April
–
George Gibb
, transport administrator (died 1925 in London)
12 May
–
Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway
, jurist, landowner, industrialist and Unionist politician (died 1934 in London)
[2]
27 May
–
Thomas Neill Cream
, the "Lambeth Poisoner", serial killer (hanged 1897 in London)
14 June
–
Eliza Humphreys
, née Gollan (pen name 'Rita'), novelist (died 1938 in England)
13 August
–
Peter Drummond
, steam locomotive engineer (died
1918
)
22 August
–
William Morrison
, chemist, creator of an electric carriage (died
1927 in the United States
)
13 November
–
Robert Louis Stevenson
, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (died
1894
in
Samoa
)
11 December
–
Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton
, married into European nobility (died 1922 in
Budapest
)
Deaths
edit
26 January
–
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
, judge and literary critic (born
1773
)
5 June
–
Thomas Brown
, architect (born
1781
)
18 June
–
John Burns
, surgeon (born
1775
) (in PS
Orion
disaster)
12 July
–
Robert Stevenson
, civil engineer noted for lighthouses (born
1772
)
[3]
3 December
–
John Gibb
, civil engineer and contractor (born
1776
)
29 December
–
William Hamilton Maxwell
, novelist (born
1792 in Ireland
)
Approximate date –
Walter Sutherland
, last native speaker of the
Norn language
on
Unst
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1850 in Ireland
References
edit
^
Kennedy, John (2007).
The History of Steam Navigation
. Kessinger Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-4304-8330-4
.
^
"Lord Aberconway, Industrialist, Dies; Sat in British Commons 1880 to 1910".
timesmachine.nytimes.com
. Retrieved
23 September
2020
.
^
"Robert Stevenson".
Northern Lighthouse Board
. 2009
. Retrieved
14 April
2014
.