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1789 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1789 in
Scotland
.
←
1788
1787
1786
1785
1784
1789
in
Scotland
→
1790
1791
1792
1793
1794
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
1800s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1789 in:
Great Britain
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Ilay Campbell
; then
Robert Dundas of Arniston
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Robert Dundas of Arniston
; then
Robert Blair
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Glenlee
until 27 September; then from 26 October
Lord Succoth
Lord Justice General
–
The Viscount Stormont
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Braxfield
Events
edit
10 July – Scottish explorer
Alexander Mackenzie
reaches the
Mackenzie River
delta in North America.
November – foundation stone for
Old College, University of Edinburgh
, laid.
December – steamboat experiments on the
Forth and Clyde Canal
by
Patrick Miller of Dalswinton
.
The original
lighthouses
at
Eilean Glas
on
Scalpay, Outer Hebrides
, and
Dennis Head Old Beacon
on
North Ronaldsay
,
Orkney
, are completed by
Thomas Smith
.
Robert Adam
designs a new house at
Newliston
.
Andrew Duncan
delivers the first lectures on
forensic medicine
in
Britain
, at the
University of Edinburgh
.
[1]
The
Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
is founded by
James McGrigor
and James Robertson.
Robert Burns
is appointed an
exciseman
.
New pump room for
St Bernard's Well, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
, designed by painter
Alexander Nasmyth
.
John Ainslie
completes and publishes his 9-sheet map of Scotland.
Flax mill
established at
Old Deer
.
Clyde Model Dockyard
is established as a toyshop in Glasgow.
Births
edit
5 January –
Thomas Pringle
, writer, poet and abolitionist (died
1834
)
28 February –
David Duncan
, Presbyterian minister (died
1829
)
1 March –
John Ramsay McCulloch
, economist (died 1864 in London)
17 August –
William Knox
, poet and journalist (died
1825
)
12 October –
William Collins
, publisher (died
1853
)
30 October –
Michael Scott
, author (died
1835
)
9 November –
Robert Pearse Gillies
, poet and writer (died 1858 in London)
November –
Peter Miller Cunningham
, naval surgeon and pioneer in Australia (died 1864 in Greenwich)
3 December –
Archibald Robertson
, physician (died 1864 in Bristol)
20 December –
William Burn
, architect, pioneer of the Scottish Baronial style (died
1870
)
23 December –
George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton
, Tory politician (died
1858
)
Thomas Wright
, prison visitor (died 1875 in Manchester)
Deaths
edit
17 March –
Sir Charles Douglas, 1st Baronet
, admiral (born
1727
)
27 September –
Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee
, judge and politician (born
1717
)
Sport
edit
9 October – the first recorded
cricket century
to be scored in Scotland is made by the
Hon. Colonel Charles Lennox
: he scores 136 not out.
[2]
Scotland portal
References
edit
^
Forbes, Thomas Rogers (1985).
Surgeons at the Bailey: English Forensic Medicine to 1878
. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 7.
ISBN
0-300-03338-9
.
^
"Notable Dates in History".
The Flag in the Wind
.
The Scots Independent
. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016
. Retrieved
18 January
2016
.