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1856 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1856 in
Scotland
.
←
1855
1854
1853
1852
1851
1856
in
Scotland
→
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1856 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
James Moncreiff
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Edward Maitland
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Colonsay
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Glencorse
Events
edit
4 January
–
Faculty of Actuaries
established.
February – an
oak
[1]
and a
yew
[2]
tree associated with
William Wallace
at his reputed birthplace of
Elderslie
are blown down in a storm.
1 April
–
Aberdeen Waterloo railway station
opens to serve the
Great North of Scotland Railway
main line to
Keith
.
November –
James Clerk Maxwell
takes up an appointment as Professor of Natural Philosophy at
Marischal College
,
Aberdeen
.
31 December
– Lord Brougham's Act requires at least one party to a marriage contracted after this date to have been resident in Scotland for 21 days, putting a curb on
Gretna Green
marriage.
[3]
Otis
elevator in Glasgow, imported from the U.S. in 1856 for Gardner's Warehouse, the oldest cast-iron fronted building in the British Isles
Trinity College, Glasgow
, established as a Church College of the
Free Church of Scotland
.
Dunfermline
claims
city status in the United Kingdom
by historical usage; the status is never officially recognised.
[4]
William McEwan
opens
McEwan's
Fountain
Brewery
at
Fountainbridge
in
Edinburgh
.
The iron
steamboat
Thomas
is built for service on the
Forth and Clyde Canal
, origin of the
Clyde puffer
.
The Clyde Model Yacht Club, a predecessor of the
Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club
, is established.
Births
edit
30 May
–
James Pittendrigh Macgillivray
, sculptor and poet (died
1938
)
5 July
–
Ion Keith-Falconer
, road racing cyclist, Arabic scholar and missionary (died 1887 in Aden)
15 August
–
Keir Hardie
, socialist and labour leader (died
1915
)
[5]
13 September
–
Henry Halcro Johnston
, botanist, army physician and rugby union international (died
1939
)
27 November
–
Matthew Stirling
, locomotive engineer (died 1931 in
Hull
)
1 December
–
Malcolm Smith
, Liberal politician (died
1935
)
William W. Naismith
, mountaineer (died
1935
)
William Robertson, industrialist (died
1923
)
Deaths
edit
August –
James Bremner
, shipbuilder and salvor (born
1784
)
30 August
–
John Ross
, naval officer and Arctic explorer (born
1777
)
20 September
–
Samuel Morison Brown
, chemist, poet and essayist (born
1817
)
23/24 December –
Hugh Miller
, geologist, by suicide (born
1802
)
25 February
–
George Don
, botanist (born
1798
)
The arts
edit
McLellan Galleries
opened in
Glasgow
.
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1856 in Ireland
References
edit
^
Hight, Julian (2011).
Britain's Tree Story
. London: National Trust. p. 25.
ISBN
978-1-907892-20-2
.
^
Greenwood, Paul (2005). "William Wallace's Yew". Ancient Yew Group
. Retrieved
26 August
2014
.
^
"Lord Brougham Cooling off Act 1856".
Gretna Green since 1754
. Gretna Green Ltd. Archived from the original on 9 May 2014
. Retrieved
8 May
2014
.
^
Beckett, J. V. (2005).
City status in the British Isles, 1830–2002
. Historical urban studies. Aldershot: Ashgate.
ISBN
0-7546-5067-7
.
^
"James Keir Hardie (1856–1915)".
BBC
. Retrieved
24 June
2013
.