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1806 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1806 in
Scotland
.
←
1805
1804
1803
1802
1801
1806
in
Scotland
→
1807
1808
1809
1810
1811
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1780s
1790s
1800s
1810s
1820s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1806 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Sir James Montgomery, Bt
; then
Henry Erskine
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Robert Blair
; then
John Clerk
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Succoth
Lord Justice General
–
The Duke of Montrose
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Granton
Events
edit
20 May
– new wet dock at
Leith
opened.
[1]
20 June
– the
Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal
is authorised.
[2]
31 August
– new harbour at
Ardrossan
begun.
25 December
–
Stotfield fishing disaster
: all 21 able-bodied men of the village of Stotfield are drowned when all three of their fishing boats are overwhelmed by a storm in the
Moray Firth
.
Henry Dundas
is
impeached
, on the initiative of
Samuel Whitbread
, for the
misappropriation of public money
at the
Admiralty
but is
acquitted
. This will be the last impeachment trial ever held in the
House of Lords
.
The first
Spey
Bridge at
Fochabers
, designed by
Thomas Telford
, is completed.
Fraserburgh
's first
rescue lifeboat
is placed on station.
Napoleonic Wars
: Defensive gun batteries placed on the island of
Inchgarvie
in the
Firth of Forth
.
[3]
New building of
Rosneath
House to an 1803
Romanesque Revival
design by
Joseph Bonomi the Elder
is finished.
Births
edit
1 February
–
George Harvey
, genre painter (died
1876
)
19 March
–
John Coldstream
, physician (died 1863 in England)
26 March
–
James Hogg
, publisher (died 1888 in England)
15 April
–
Alexander Duff
, Church of Scotland missionary to India (died 1878 in England)
4 June
–
Daniel Macnee
, portrait painter (died
1882
)
5 July
–
James Dawson
, Guardian of Australian Aboriginals (died
1900 in Australia
)
20 July
–
John Sterling
, author (died 1844 in England)
19 September
–
William Dyce
, painter (died 1864 in England)
October –
William Atherton
, lawyer and liberal politician (died 1864 in England)
10 or 12 October –
David Scott
, historical painter (died
1849
)
10 December
–
David Robertson
, marine biologist (died
1896
)
James Graham
, missionary photographer (died
1869
)
Deaths
edit
30 January
–
David Smythe, Lord Methven
, judge (born
1746
)
20 February
–
Lachlan McIntosh
, military and political leader (born
1725
; died in
Savannah, Georgia
)
17 March
–
David Dale
, businessman and philanthropist (born
1739
)
5 April
–
Benjamin Bell
, surgeon (born
1749
)
24 May
–
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
, field marshal (born
1723
)
29 December
–
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
, politician (born
1735
)
Mungo Park
, explorer (born
1771
; died in
Bussa, Nigeria
)
The arts
edit
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
, begins to ship the
Elgin Marbles
to Britain from
Greece
.
Walter Scott
's
Ballads and Lyrical Pieces
is published.
See also
edit
1806 in Ireland
References
edit
^
"History of Edinburgh".
Visions of Scotland
. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015
. Retrieved
19 August
2014
.
^
"Canal records". Edinburgh: The
National Archives of Scotland
. 19 June 2006
. Retrieved
19 August
2014
.
NAS reference: BR/GPA, CS96/2002.
^
Bastions and Barbed Wire
. Leiden: Brill. 2008. p. 112
. Retrieved
19 November
2014
.