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1742 In Scotland
Events from the year 1742 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary of State for Scotland: ''vacant'' until 16 February; then The Marquess of Tweeddale Law officers * Lord Advocate – Charles Erskine, then Robert Craigie * Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant of Prestongrange; then Robert Dundas, the younger Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton Events * February–November – Cambuslang Work, an outbreak of Christian revival at Cambuslang. * 16 February – the post of Secretary of State for Scotland, vacant since 1725, is revived in favour of John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale; he holds it until 1746. * Delftware manufactured in Glasgow. * Kirkcaldy Beer Duties Act passed. Births * 13 March (or 1743)? – Anne Hunter, née Home, lyricist (probably born in Ireland; died 1821 in London) * 28 April – Henry Dundas, statesman (died 1811) * 29 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretary Of State For Scotland
The secretary of state for Scotland ( gd, Rùnaire Stàite na h-Alba; sco, Secretar o State fir Scotland), also referred to as the Scottish secretary, is a Secretary of State (United Kingdom), secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Scotland Office. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. The office holder works alongside the other Scotland Office#Ministers, Scotland Office ministers. The corresponding shadow minister is the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, shadow secretary of state for Scotland. The incumbent is Alister Jack, following his appointment by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July 2019 and who was reappointed by Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. History Prior to devolution (before 1999) The post was first created after the Acts of Union 1707 created the Kingdom of Great Britain from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. It was abolished in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1725 In Scotland
Events from the year 1725 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe, until August; office vacant thereafter Law officers * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas, then Duncan Forbes * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Binning; then John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange Events * 12 May – the Black Watch is raised as a military company as part of the pacification of the Highlands under General George Wade. * 22 June – malt riots in Glasgow against higher taxes on Scottish malt used in the production of distilled beverages. Wade's troops enter the city. * August – John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe, resigns as Secretary of State for Scotland; the post remains vacant until 1742. * A second Disarming Act is passed as part of the pacification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1675
Events January–March * January 5 – Franco-Dutch War – Battle of Turckheim: The French defeat Austria and Brandenburg. * January 29 – John Sassamon, an English-educated Native Americans in the United States, Native American Christians, Christian, dies at Assawampsett Pond, an event which will trigger King Philip's War, a year-long war between the Colonial history of the United States, English American colonists of New England, and the Algonquian peoples, Algonquian Native American tribes. * February 4 – The Italian opera ''La divisione del mondo'', by Giovanni Legrenzi, is performed for the first time, premiering in Venice at the Teatro Goldoni (Venice), Teatro San Luca. The new opera, telling the story of the "division of the world" after the battle between the Gods of Olympus and the Titans, becomes known for its elaborate and expensive sets, machinery, and special effects and is revived 325 years later in the year 2000. * February 6 &nda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Douglas (physician)
James Douglas (21 March 1675 – 2 April 1742) was a Scottish physician and anatomist, and Physician Extraordinary to Queen Caroline. Life and works One of the seven sons of William Douglas (died 1705) and his wife, Joan, daughter of James Mason of Park, Blantyre, he was born in West Calder, West Lothian, in 1675. His brother was the lithotomist John Douglas (died 1759). In 1694 he graduated MA from the University of Edinburgh and then took his medical doctorate at Reims before going to London in 1700. He worked as an obstetrician, and gaining a great reputation as a physician, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1706, FCP in 1721. One of the most respected anatomists in the country, Douglas was also a well-known man-midwife. He was asked to investigate the case of Mary Toft, an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. Desp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1826 In Scotland
Events from the year 1826 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events * January – the Glasgow City Mission is founded by David Nasmith, initiating the global City Mission movement. * 5 May – the Ballochney Railway is authorised. * 11 May – attainder of Threipland baronets of Fingask Castle (imposed for support of the Jacobite risings) is repealed and Patrick (also known as Peter) Budge Murray Threipland (1762–1837), an advocate, is restored to the dignity of a baronet. * 26 May – the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway and Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway are authorised. * 18 August – explorer Alexander Gordon Laing (born 1793 in Edinburgh) becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu but on 26 September is murdered there. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kay (caricaturist)
John Kay (1742 – 21 February 1826) was a Scottish caricaturist and engraver. Life He was born near Dalkeith, where his father was a mason. At 13 he was apprenticed to a barber, whom he served for six years. He then went to Edinburgh, where in 1771 he obtained the freedom of the city by joining the corporation of barber-surgeons. In 1784 he published his first caricature, of Laird Robertson. In 1785, induced by the favour which greeted certain attempts of his to etch in aquafortis, he took down his barber's pole and opened a small print shop in Parliament Close. There he continued to flourish, painting miniatures, and publishing at short intervals his sketches and caricatures of local celebrities and oddities, who abounded at that period in Edinburgh society. Kay's portraits were collected by Hugh Paton and published under the title ''A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay, with biographical sketches and illustrative anecdotes'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Chalmers (antiquarian)
George Chalmers (December 1742 – 31 May 1825) was a Scottish antiquarian and political writer. Biography Chalmers was born at Fochabers, Moray, the second son of the local postmaster, James Chalmers (who was a grandson of George Chalmers of Pittensear in Lhanbryde) and his wife Isabella.Fleming, Thomas. "George Chalmers (December 1742-31 May 1825)," in Clyde N. Wilson (ed.), ''American Historians, 1607-1865'', Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 30, Detroit: Gale Research, 1984, 52. After completing a course at King's College, Aberdeen, he studied law at the University of Edinburgh for several years. Two uncles on the father's side had settled in British North America, and Chalmers visited Maryland in 1763, apparently to assist in recovering a tract of land about which a dispute had arisen. He began practising as a lawyer at Baltimore. As a Loyalist, however, at the outbreak of the American War of Independence, he abandoned his professional prospects and returned to Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1814 In The United States
Events from the year 1814 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: James Madison ( DR-Virginia) * Vice President: Elbridge Gerry ( DR-Massachusetts) (until November 23), ''vacant'' (starting November 23) * Chief Justice: John Marshall (Virginia) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay ( DR-Kentucky) (until January 19), Langdon Cheves ( DR-South Carolina) (starting January 19) * Congress: 13th Events January–June * January 22–24 – Creek War – Andrew Jackson fights the Red Sticks at the battles of Emuckfaw and Enotachopo Creek. * January 27 – Creek War – Battle of Callabee Creek: Red Sticks unsuccessfully attack Georgia volunteers in present-day Macon County, Alabama. * March 9 – The USS ''Enterprise'' reaches Wilmington, North Carolina, returning from the Caribbean. * March 27 – Creek War – Battle of Horseshoe Bend: In northern Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Graham
Isabella Graham (née Marshall; July 29, 1742, Lanarkshire, Scotland - July 27, 1814, New York City) was a Scottish-American philanthropist and educator. Early life Graham was born on 29 July 1742 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. She was the only daughter of Janet (née Hamilton) and John Marshall, a landowner. She grew up on an estate at Elderslie, near Paisley. With money from a legacy left by her grandfather she attended the boarding school of Betty Morehead for seven years. The Graham family was known for their piety and Isabella became a communicant of the Church of Scotland at the age of seventeen at the Laigh Kirk, Paisley where Dr. John Witherspoon, who was later a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence, was the minister . Personal life In 1765, she married Dr. John Graham, an army surgeon in the Royal Americans regiment. Two years later, she went with him to Canada. They had three daughters and two sons, one of whom died in infancy in Scotland. The survi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1811 In Scotland
Events from the year 1811 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun * Solicitor General for Scotland – David Boyle; then David Monypenny Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Avontoun until 20 May; then Lord Granton * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Granton, then Lord Boyle Events * 9 January – the first women's golf tournament in Scotland takes place at the links of the Musselburgh Golf Club. * 1 February – Bell Rock Lighthouse begins operation. * March – Prisoner-of-war camp established at Penicuik. * 27 May – second national Census. In Scotland the count is carried out by schoolmasters. * June – Walter Scott buys the farm at Abbotsford near Galashiels and commences building his future residence, Abbotsford House. * August – passengers are being carried on the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, in horse-drawn vehicles. * November – Thomas Telford's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dundas
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811), styled as Lord Melville from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18th century. Dundas was instrumental in the encouragement of the Scottish Enlightenment, in the prosecution of the French Revolutionary Wars, war against France, and in the expansion of company rule in India, British influence in India. Prime Minister Pitt appointed him Lord of Trade (1784–1786), Home Secretary (1791–1794), President of the Board of Control for Indian Affairs (1793–1801), Secretary at War (1794–1801) and First Lord of the Admiralty (1804–1805). His deft and almost total control of Scottish politics during a long period in which no monarch visited the country led to him being nicknamed "King Harry the Ninth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Hunter
Anne Hunter (''née'' Home) (1742 – 1821) was a salonnière and poet in Georgian London. She is remembered mostly for the texts to at least nine of Joseph Haydn's 14 songs in English. She was the wife of surgeon and anatomist John Hunter, whose anatomical collections in their home eventually formed the basis for the Hunterian Museum. She entertained the leading Bluestockings at their house. Biography Hunter was the eldest daughter of surgeon Robert Boyne Home of Greenlaw Castle, Berwickshire. In July 1771, she married John Hunter, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. Her brother Everard Home was apprenticed to her husband as a surgeon. Her salons were among the most enjoyable of her time, though not always to her husband's taste. The Bluestockings Elizabeth Carter, Mary Delany, and Elizabeth Montagu were her friends. Her husband's sister was widowed in 1778, which led indirectly to Dorothea and her children moving to London a few years later. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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