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1859 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1859 in
Scotland
.
←
1858
1857
1856
1855
1854
1859
in
Scotland
→
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
Centuries:
17th
18th
19th
20th
21st
Decades:
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1859 in:
The UK
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Charles Baillie
until April; then
David Mure
until June; then
James Moncreiff
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
David Mure
; then
George Patton
; then
Edward Maitland
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Colonsay
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Glenalmond
Events
edit
2 February
– a
Crinan Canal
reservoir dam bursts.
21 April
– the
Dunfermline Press
begins publication.
14 October
–
Glasgow Town Council
's
Loch Katrine
public water supply scheme officially opened.
[1]
23 December
– National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, a predecessor of the
National Museum of Scotland
, officially inaugurated in Queen Street,
Edinburgh
.
[2]
Muirkirk
becomes the first town in Britain to have
gas lighting
.
St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society
opens its first shop in Edinburgh.
Robertson's
"Golden Shred"
marmalade
first produced, in
Paisley
.
First
whaler
purpose-built with a steam engine, the
Narwhal
from
Stephen
's shipyard at
Dundee
.
[3]
Births
edit
27 January
–
James Grierson
, British Army lieutenant general (died on service
1914 in France
)
8 March
–
Kenneth Grahame
, author best known for
The Wind in the Willows
(died 1932 in England)
10 March
–
Dugald Sutherland MacColl
, painter and curator (died 1948 in London)
25 March
–
John Bruce Glasier
, socialist politician (died
1920
)
22 May
–
Arthur Conan Doyle
, physician and fiction writer best known for his stories about the fictional detective
Sherlock Holmes
(died 1930 in England)
[4]
10 June
–
James Guthrie
, painter (died
1930
)
8 July
–
Annie Shepherd Swan
, novelist (died
1943
)
9 September
–
William James Cullen, Lord Cullen
, judge (died
1941
)
24 September
–
S. R. Crockett
, novelist (died
1914 in France
)
25 October
–
Allan MacDonald
, Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (died
1905
)
18 November
–
James Nairn
, painter (died
1904 in New Zealand
)
Thomas Corsan Morton
, painter (died
1928
)
Deaths
edit
6 February
–
Jane Stirling
, pianist, student of Chopin (born 1804)
21 March
–
Angus MacKay
, piper (born
1813
)
19 September
–
John Pringle Nichol
, scientist (born
1804
)
22 September
–
William Alison
, physician and social reformer (born
1790
)
20 November
–
Mountstuart Elphinstone
, statesman and historian (born
1779
)
22 November
–
George Wilson
, chemist and professor of technology (born
1818
)
The arts
edit
26 August
–
Jules Verne
arrives in Edinburgh to begin his first visit to Scotland.
John Brown
's short story "
Rab and his Friends
" is published.
See also
edit
Timeline of Scottish history
1859 in Ireland
References
edit
^
"The Queen At Loch Katrine".
The Times
. No. 23438. London. 15 October 1859. p. 9.
^
"History of Edinburgh".
Visions of Scotland
. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015
. Retrieved
7 May
2014
.
^
Lythe, S. G. E. (1964). "Shipbuilding at Dundee down to 1914".
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
.
11
(3): 219–32.
doi
:10.1111/j.1467-9485.1964.tb00681.x.
^
"Conan Doyle Dead From Heart Attack".
The New York Times
. 8 July 1930
. Retrieved
22 June
2013
.