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1753 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1753 in
Scotland
.
←
1752
1751
1750
1749
1748
1753
in
Scotland
→
1754
1755
1756
1757
1758
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1730s
1740s
1750s
1760s
1770s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1753 in:
Great Britain
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
William Grant of Prestongrange
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles
, jointly with Alexander Hume
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Arniston the Elder
to 26 August; then
vacant
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Ilay
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Tinwald
Events
edit
7 June
–
Archibald Cameron of Lochiel
(born
1707
) becomes the last
Jacobite
to be executed for treason when he is
hanged
and beheaded at
Tyburn
in London under a
bill of attainder
. On 26 March he has returned from exile in France in the service of
Charles Edward Stuart
to retrieve the
Loch Arkaig treasure
and to participate in a desperate plot to assassinate
George II of Great Britain
and other members of the
British Royal Family
. However, while staying secretly at Brenachyle by
Loch Katrine
, he has been betrayed by
Alastair Ruadh MacDonnell
of Glengarry (the notorious spy "Pickle") and members of his own clan and arrested.
[1]
July – the
Parliament of Great Britain
passes Lord Harwicke's
Marriage Act 1753
"for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" in
England and Wales
; coming into force in 1754 it will give increased incentive for couples to contract
Border marriages
in Scotland.
Old Bridge of
Dee
, Invercauld, completed by military engineer Edward Caulfield.
[2]
Military road completed to Rest and Be Thankful.
Bonawe
ironworks
begins casting.
Whaling
from
Dundee
begins.
Births
edit
27 March
–
Andrew Bell
, educationist and Episcopalian minister (died 1832 in England)
12 May
–
George Gleig
, Episcopalian Primus (died
1840
)
22 November
–
Dugald Stewart
, philosopher (died
1828
)
Deaths
edit
26 August
–
Robert Dundas of Arniston, the elder
, Lord President of the Court of Session 1748–53 (born
1685
)
27 September
–
Sir John Anstruther, 1st Baronet, of Anstruther
, politician (born c.
1678
)
December –
Thomas Melvill
, meteorologist and philosopher (born
1726
; died in Geneva)
William Wishart
, Principal of the
University of Edinburgh
(born c.
1692
)
The arts
edit
Glasgow Literary Society
formed.
Foulis Academy formed in Glasgow by
Robert Foulis
to teach art.
See also
edit
Scotland portal
Timeline of Scottish history
References
edit
^
Kybett, Susan Maclean (1988).
Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography
. London: Unwin Hyman.
ISBN
0044402139
.
^
"Old Bridge of Dee".
Canmore
. Edinburgh:
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
. 2008
. Retrieved
21 February
2016
.