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1756 In Scotland
Events from the year 1756 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger * Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Pringle of Alemore Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Glendoick * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald Events * 21 April – James Montgomery, a slave, escapes from a ship bound for Virginia at Port Glasgow and flees to Edinburgh where he is recaptured and begins the legal case of ''Montgomery v Sheddan'' in an attempt to gain his freedom. * 1 November – Wanlockhead Miners' Library set up. * A decision of the Court of Session (in Edinburgh) establishes that tenants may easily be removed by the local sheriff. * The planned industrial village of Charlestown, Fife, is begun by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin. * Church of St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, designed by Allan Dreghorn, is completed. * 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot first formed. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bruce, 5th Earl Of Elgin
Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine (6 July 1732 – 14 May 1771) was the son of William Bruce, 8th Earl of Kincardine. His mother was Janet Roberton, daughter of James Roberton (principal Lord of Session)Elgin, 1633 at cracroftspeerage.co.uk (Cracroft's Peerage online). Retrieved 23 October 2012 and great-granddaughter of advocate and judge On 1 June 1759, he married Martha Whyte (1739–1810), who later became |
James Perry (journalist)
James Perry, born James Pirie (30 October 1756 – 4 December 1821) was a British journalist and newspaper editor. Biography Admitted to Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1771, he began studying for the Scottish bar. Forced to abandon his studies after his father's building business failed in 1774, he moved to London in 1777. He became a reporter for ''The General Advertiser'' and the ''London Evening Post'', where he raised sales in 1779 by his court reporting from the Portsmouth trial of Admiral Keppel and Admiral Palliser.John Gorton, ''A General Biographical Dictionary'', new edn, 3 vols, 1841. He established ''The European Magazine'' in 1782, leaving it a year later to edit ''The Gazeteer'' as "the Paper of the People". In 1790 he managed to become owner and editor of the ''Morning Chronicle''. In 1791–92 he reported from Paris on the progress of the French Revolution. His political influence was sufficient for Pitt and Lord Shelburne to offer him a parliamentary seat, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1836 In Scotland
Events from the year 1836 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – John Murray * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Cunninghame Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose until 30 December (separate office abolished on his death) * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events * 17 May – Arbroath and Forfar Railway authorised. * 19 May – Dundee and Arbroath Railway authorised. * June – 17 miniature coffins of unknown provenance are found in a cave on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh. * 1 July – North of Scotland Bank (a constituent of Clydesdale Bank) established in Aberdeen by Alexander Anderson and others. * 16 July – the brig ''Mariner'' leaves Loch Eriboll on the north coast for Cape Breton Island and Quebec in British North America with 154 emigrants, mostly from the nearby Reay district. * 30 July – Savings Bank of Glasgow established. * 7 August – St Andrew's Cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Loudon McAdam
John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756 – 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials of mixed particle size and predetermined structure, that would be more durable and less muddy than soil-based tracks. Modern road construction still reflects McAdam's influence. Of subsequent improvements, the most significant was the introduction of tar (originally coal tar) to bind the road surface's stones together, "tarmac" (for Tar Macadam.) Early life McAdam was born in Ayr, Scotland. He was the youngest of ten children and second son of the Baron of Waterhead. He moved to Lagwine at Carsphairn when still a child to live with his grandparents. The family name was traditionally McGregor, but was changed to McAdam (claiming descent from the Biblical Adam) for political reasons in James VI's reign. He moved to New York in 1770 and, as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Currie (physician)
James Currie FRS (31 May 1756 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland – 31 August 1805 in Sidmouth) was a Scottish physician, best known for his anthology and biography of Robert Burns and his medical reports on the use of water in the treatment of fever. A watercolour portrait by Horace Hone (1756–1825) is in the National Galleries of Scotland. His early attempt to set up a merchanting business in Virginia was a failure and he returned to Scotland. After qualifying as a medical doctor he established a successful practice in Liverpool, England and after a few years was able to purchase a small estate in Dumfriesshire. He became a Fellow of the London Medical Society and was a founder member of the Liverpool Literary Society. He was an early advocate of the abolition of slavery and wrote several political letters and pamphlets, including one to William Pitt, which made him a number of enemies. Throughout his life he was dogged by illness and in 1804 he became seriously unwell. In an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (mathematician)
Frontpage of ''Treatises'' (1838) John West (1756-1817) was a mathematician and priest from Scotland. Life and work Fourth child of Samuel West and Margaret Mein, his father died in 1766. West matriculated in the University of Saint Andrews in 1769 thanks to financial help of the presbytery clerk Dr. Adamson. He, like his brothers, studied mathematics under professor Nicolas Vilant. He was assistant of professor Vilant, who had poor health, but lacking of prospects in his native land, he emigrated to Jamaica, in 1784, the same year that ''Elements of Mathematics'' and ''A System of Shorthand'' were published. In Jamaica, West was initially teacher in the Manning's Free School at Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland Parish. In 1790 he was appointed rector of Saint Thomas in Morant Bay Morant Bay is a town in southeastern Jamaica and the capital of the parish of St. Thomas, located about 25 miles east of Kingston, the capital. The parish has a population of 94,410. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1823 In Scotland
Events from the year 1823 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 * 14 January – the Plinian Society is inaugurated for students of natural history at the University of Edinburgh under the presidency of John Baird. * 7 February – the Bannatyne Club is inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott and others as a text publication society to print by subscription rare texts relating to the history, literature and traditions of Scotland. * 17 June – Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof material later used to make Mackintosh coats. * 18 July – Act for building additional Places of Worship in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland passed. * November – the Highland Society’s Veterinary School, predecessor of the University of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn (; 4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland. Biography Raeburn was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, on the Water of Leith: a former village now within the city of Edinburgh. He had an older brother, born in 1744, called William Raeburn. His ancestors were believed to have been soldiers, and may have taken the name "Raeburn" from a hill farm in Annandale, held by Sir Walter Scott's family. Orphaned, he was supported by William and placed in Heriot's Hospital, where he received an education. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the goldsmith James Gilliland of Edinburgh, and various pieces of jewellery, mourning rings and the like, adorned with minute drawings on ivory by his hand, still exist. When the medical student Charles Darwin died in 1778, his friend and professor Andrew Duncan took a lock of his student's hair to the jeweller whose apprentice, Raebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1829 In Canada
Events from the year 1829 in Canada. Incumbents *Monarch: George IV Federal government *13th Parliament of Lower Canada *10th Parliament of Upper Canada Governors *Governor-General of the Province of Canada: James Kempt *Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick: Sir Howard Douglas *Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Nickleson Jeffery *Colonial Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas John Cochrane *Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island: John Ready Events *January 4 – Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada founds Upper Canada College, as a feeder school to the newly formed University of Toronto and a home for the colony's upper class. *November 30 – Construction of the First Welland Canal is completed (construction to begin again in 1831) Births *May 28 – A. B. Rogers, surveyor (died 1889) *June 7 – Joseph Godéric Blanchet, politician (died 1890) *July 10 – Louis-Adélard Senécal, businessman and politician (died 1887) *August 1 – John James Fraser, lawy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Johnston
Hugh Johnston (January 4, 1756 – November 29, 1829) was a Scottish-born merchant and politician in New Brunswick. He represented St. John County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1802 to 1820. He was born in Morayshire, the son of William Johnston and Isabel Hepburn. He married Ann Gilzean. He set up business at Saint John, New Brunswick in the 1780s. Johnston traded fish and lumber for sugar and molasses from the West Indies which was used to manufacture rum in Scotland. In 1806, he married Margaret Thurburn after the death of his first wife. Circa 1821 he and John Richard Partelow purchased the ship , and transferred her registry to St John. ''Prince Regent'' had been built in New Brunswick and traded between Liverpool and New Brunswick until she was wrecked in November 1823. Johnston was a director of the Bank of New Brunswick and a port warden for the harbour at Saint John. With others, he helped establish the first Presbyterian Presbyteriani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Home
Francis Home FRSE FRCPE (17 November 1719 in Eccles, Berwickshire – 15 February 1813) was a Scottish physician, and the first Professor of Materia Medica at the University of Edinburgh, known to make the first attempt to vaccinate against measles, in 1758. In 1783 he was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Biography Francis Home was the third son of John Home, an advocate residing at Eccles, Berwickshire. He received his education at Duns Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to Dr Rattray, a surgeon in Edinburgh. From 1742 to 1748 he served as surgeon of dragoons in Flanders in the Seven Years' War, studying at Leyden University during the intervals of the campaigns. Leaving the army, he graduated with an MD University of Edinburgh in 1750, with a treatise on intermittent fever, and became a fellow of the Edinburgh College of Physicians. After graduation, Home worked as a physician in Edinburgh, from 1749. After practising medicine for some years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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