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1788 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1788 in
Scotland
.
←
1787
1786
1785
1784
1783
1788
in
Scotland
→
1789
1790
1791
1792
1793
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
1800s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1788 in:
Great Britain
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Ilay Campbell
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Robert Dundas of Arniston
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Glenlee
Lord Justice General
–
The Viscount Stormont
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Braxfield
Events
edit
31 January –
Henry Benedict Stuart
becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of
Great Britain
as King Henry IX and the figurehead of
Jacobitism
.
14 March – the
Edinburgh Evening Courant
carries a notice of £200 reward for capture of
William Brodie
, town councillor doubling as a burglar.
27 August – trial of
William Brodie
begins in
Edinburgh
. He is sentenced to death by hanging.
1 October – William Brodie
hanged
at the
Tolbooth
in Edinburgh.
14 October –
William Symington
demonstrates a
paddle steamer
on Dalswinton Loch near
Dumfries
.
[1]
[2]
Tobermory, Mull
, and
Ullapool
are founded as herring ports by the British Fisheries Society to the designs of
Thomas Telford
.
Flax mills
established at Brigton in
Angus
and
Inverbervie
in Kincardineshire.
Lowland Licence Act restricts exports of Scottish
gin
to England, effectively requiring a one-year pause in the trade.
St Gregory's Church, Preshome
, designed by Father John Reid, is built.
Ring of bells
cast for the new steeple of
St Andrew's Church
in
New Town, Edinburgh
, the oldest complete ring in Scotland.
General Register House in Edinburgh, designed by
Robert Adam
and begun in 1774, is opened to the public.
[3]
The estate house at
Yair
is built.
Encyclopædia Britannica
Third Edition
begins publication in Edinburgh.
Births
edit
31 January –
John Ewart
, architect and businessman in North America (died
1856 in Canada
)
April –
George Ferguson
, naval officer (died 1867 in London)
15 May –
Neil Arnott
, physician (died 1874 in London)
29 August –
Ranald George Macdonald
, clan chief and politician (died 1873 in London)
2 September –
John Strange
, merchant and politician in Canada (died
1840 in Canada
)
13 October –
Thomas Erskine
, lawyer and revisionary Calvinist theologian (died
1870
)
11 November –
Thomas Francis Kennedy
, lawyer and politician (died
1879
)
31 December –
Basil Hall
, naval officer and explorer (died 1844 in Portsmouth)
David Lennox
, builder of stone bridges in Australia (died
1873 in Australia
)
Charles Mackenzie
, diplomat and journalist (died
1862 in the United States
)
George Mudie
, social reformer
James Thompson
, Baptist pastor and educator in South America (died 1854 in London)
Deaths
edit
31 January –
Charles Edward Stuart
, claimant to the British throne (born 1720, and died, in Italy)
14 June –
Adam Gib
, Secession Church leader (born
1714
)
15 October –
Samuel Greig
, admiral in the
Imperial Russian Navy
(born
1736
; died in Tallinn)
The arts
edit
December –
Robert Burns
writes his version of the
Scots
poem
Auld Lang Syne
.
[4]
From Whitsun he has been tenant of
Ellisland Farm
.
William Collins
publishes
Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland
.
[5]
See also
edit
Scotland portal
Timeline of Scottish history
1788 in Great Britain
References
edit
^
Harvey, W. S.; Downs-Rose, G. (1980).
William Symington, Inventor and Engine Builder
. London: Northgate Publishing.
ISBN
0-85298-443-X
.
^
Macleod, Innes; Neil, James (1988).
The Dalswinton steamboat 1788–1988
. Dumfries: Farries.
ISBN
0-948278-08-0
.
^
McLintock, John (2009). "General Register House"
(PDF)
.
National Archives of Scotland
. Retrieved
25 January
2016
.
^
"Robert Burns – Auld Lang Syne".
BBC
. Retrieved
26 January
2012
.
^
Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
.