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1815 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1815 in
Scotland
.
←
1814
1813
1812
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in
Scotland
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1816
1817
1818
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Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1790s
1800s
1810s
1820s
1830s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1815 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Archibald Colquhoun
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Alexander Maconochie
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Granton
Lord Justice General
–
The Duke of Montrose
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Boyle
Events
edit
February/March – foundation stone of
Montrose Academy
laid.
[1]
[2]
18 June
–
Battle of Waterloo
:
Ensign
Charles Ewart
of the
Royal Scots Greys
captures the
French Imperial Eagle
standard.
[3]
1 July
– Union Bank of Scotland opens.
[3]
19 September
– foundation stones for
Regent Bridge
and Calton Jail in
Edinburgh
laid.
[4]
The
Nelson Monument, Edinburgh
, on
Calton Hill
, is dedicated.
Hackness Martello Tower and Battery
and
Crockness Martello tower
in
Orkney
are completed.
Dunans
and
Ferness
Bridges and
Avoch
harbour are completed to the designs of
Thomas Telford
.
Glenfinnan Monument
erected to mark the landing of "
Bonnie Prince Charlie
" at the start of the
Jacobite rising of 1745
to the design of
James Gillespie Graham
.
Armadale Castle
on
Skye
is built in the style of
Scottish Baronial architecture
to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
A Jury Court as a division of the
Court of Session
is introduced.
[5]
Regius Professorships
at the
University of Glasgow
in
Midwifery
and
Surgery
are established by
King George III
.
The
Scottish Widows
Fund and Life Assurance Society opens to business as Scotland's first
mutual
life insurance
office.
On
Islay
,
Ardbeg distillery
begins commercial production and
Laphroaig distillery
is established by Donald and Alexander Johnston.
[6]
The
Clyde Shipping Company
is set up by John Henderson, William Croil, Donald McPhee and George Jardine Kidston to provide services by
paddle steamer
.
Pringle of Scotland
, knitwear manufacturer, is established by Robert Pringle in the
Borders
.
John Fletcher Macfarlan takes over the family
apothecary
business in
Edinburgh
, the predecessor of
MacFarlan Smith
, and begins to manufacture
laudanum
.
Aberdeen Savings Bank
is formed.
Births
edit
11 January
John A. Macdonald
, first
Prime Minister of Canada
(died 1891 in Ottawa)
David Stevenson
, lighthouse engineer (died
1886
)
22 January
–
William Brodie
, sculptor (died
1881
)
25 March
–
George Thomson
, shipbuilder (died
1866
)
1 April
–
William Chalmers Burns
, evangelical missionary to China (died
1868
)
19 May
Kate Dickens
, née Catherine Hogarth, wife of Charles Dickens (died 1879 in London)
Hugh Fraser
, retailer (died
1873
)
11 June
–
W McEwan
, cricketer (died
1862 in Australia
)
12 June
–
James Valentine
, photographer (died
1879
)
29 August
–
James Fenton
, railway engineer (died
1863
)
20 December
–
James Legge
, Congregationalist missionary to China (died 1897 in Oxford)
Thomas Stuart Smith
, painter and benefactor (died 1869 in Avignon)
Deaths
edit
14 January
–
William Creech
, publisher and
Lord Provost of Edinburgh
(born
1745
)
4 February
–
John Ferriar
, physician and writer (born
1761
)
9 February
–
Claudius Buchanan
, theologian, Church of England missionary to India (born
1766
)
23 February
–
William Duff
, Presbyterian minister and writer on psychology (born
1732
)
10 April
–
William Roxburgh
, Scottish surgeon and botanist (born
1751
)
26 August
–
John Spalding
, politician (born
1763
)
8 September
–
Andrew Graham
, naturalist
28 September
–
Gilbert Gerard
, theological writer (born
1760
)
9 December
–
Patrick Miller of Dalswinton
, banker and steamboat promoter (born
1730
)
Thomas Keith
, soldier (born c.1793)
The arts
edit
Christian Isobel Johnstone
's novel
Clan-Albin: A National Tale
is published.
Robert Kirk
's
The Secret Commonwealth
, Gaelic folklore collected in 1691/92, is first published.
Walter Scott
's narrative poem
The Lord of the Isles
and anonymous novel
Guy Mannering
are published.
6-year-old
Edgar Allan Poe
attends school in
Irvine, North Ayrshire
.
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1815 in Ireland
References
edit
^
Johns, Trevor W. (1988).
The Mid Links, Montrose, since Provost Scott
. Montrose Review Press. p. 52.
^
Cormack, Alexander Allan (1966).
Susan Carnegie, 1744-1821: her life of service
. Aberdeen University Press. p. 300.
^
a
b
"Chronology of Scottish History".
A Timeline of Scottish History
. Rampant Scotland
. Retrieved
20 February
2014
.
^
"History of Edinburgh".
Visions of Scotland
. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015
. Retrieved
20 February
2014
.
^
"Court of Session – other series".
National Archives of Scotland
. Archived from the original on 18 December 2009
. Retrieved
20 February
2014
.
^
"History". Laphroaig Collector. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013
. Retrieved
20 February
2014
.