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1774 In Scotland
Events from the year 1774 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – James Montgomery * Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger * Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming Events * 27 June – foundation stone of General Register House in Edinburgh, designed by Robert Adam, is laid; the building will not be opened until 1788. * Dundas House in New Town, Edinburgh, designed by William Chambers, is completed. * Punitive laws against the Clan Gregor are repealed. * Roman Catholic chapel built on the site that will become St Peter's Church, Aberdeen. * The Schiehallion experiment is carried by Nevil Maskelyne out to determine the mean density of the Earth."An account of Observations made on the Mountain Schehallien for finding its attraction". ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' (London) 6 July 1775. Birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, 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 of Scotland, 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 Subdivisions of Scotland, administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow, Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland (council area), Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peter's Church, Aberdeen
St Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was built from 1803 and opened in 1804. It is situated on Justice Street between Peacock's Close and Market Stance, next to St Andrew's Cathedral in the centre of the city. It was the first permanent Roman Catholic Church to be built in Aberdeen after the Reformation and is a category B listed building. History Foundation In 1774, a small chapel was built on the site of the present church. It was on the ground floor of a house and had a residence above it. The resident priest there was the Vicar Apostolic of the Lowland District, James Grant. In July 1795, Fr Charles Gordon became the resident priest in Aberdeen.St Peter's from Scalan.co.uk, retrieved 12 January 2016 Construction In early 1803, materials and funds for the construction of a church w ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Reid (architect)
Robert Reid (8 November 1774 – 20 March 1856) was the King's architect and surveyor for Scotland from 1827 to 1839. He is responsible for a number of public works particularly the façade of Parliament Square in Edinburgh, which houses the Court of Session. Stylistically he was heavily influenced by Robert Adam, but Reid's style is more austere. The style is now seen as the main character of the northern (less altered) Edinburgh New Town and without Reid Edinburgh would today be a very different city. From 1802 to 1809 he assisted the much older William Sibbald in the design of the Second New Town in Edinburgh, largely being responsible for the facades. Reid also contributed to the layout of Charlotte Square in the city following fellow architect Robert Adam's death, constructing a home for himself there (No. 44) and completing the design for West Register House (formerly St George's Church). In 1802 he went on to contribute to the planning of the northern part of Edinburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Allan (poet)
Robert Allan (4 November 1774 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish poet. Biography Allan was born at Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, where his father was a flax-dresser. He, himself, would later become a muslin-weaver. Early in life he began to write songs, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. He would often composing them while working at his loom. He received the praise of Tannahill, who, like himself, was a Renfrewshire weaver and songwriter. As time progressed, Robert Archibald Smith set to music many of his Scotch songs and published them in the ''Scottish Minstrel'' in 1820. A number of them additionally appeared in the ''Harp of Renfrewshire.'' A volume of Allan's poems was also printed by subscription in 1836. Allan reared a large family, and was poor, old, and discontented, when, in opposition to the advice of his friends, he sailed for the United States, where his youngest son was a portrait-painter of promise. He died in New York City New York, often call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1846 In Scotland
Events from the year 1846 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Duncan McNeill until July; then Andrew Rutherfurd * Solicitor General for Scotland – Adam Anderson; then Thomas Maitland Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope Events * January – African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass arrives in Scotland from Ireland to continue his speaking tour of the United Kingdom. * 22 June – the North British Railway is opened to public traffic between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed, the first line to cross the border between Scotland and England. Edinburgh Waverley railway station is opened. * 15 August – inauguration of Scott Monument in Edinburgh. * 21 December – Scottish-born surgeon Robert Liston carries out the first operation under anesthesia in Europe, at University College Hospital in London. * Start of Highland Potato Famine. * English tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Duncan (minister)
Henry Duncan FRSE (8 October 1774 – 12 February 1846) was a Scottish minister, geologist and social reformer. The minister of Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire, he founded the world's first mutual savings bank that would eventually form part of the Trustee Savings Bank. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1839. At the Disruption has left the Church of Scotland and sided with the Free Church. He was also a publisher, a philanthropist and an author, writing novels as well as works of science and religion. Early life Duncan was born in 1774 at Lochrutton, Kirkcudbrightshire, where his father, George Duncan, was minister. As a boy he met the poet Robert Burns, who visited Lochrutton Manse. Duncan was educated in Dumfries at the Academy. After studying for two sessions at St. Andrews University he was sent to Liverpool to begin commercial life, and under the patronage of his relative, Dr. James Currie, the biographer of Robert Burns, his pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1810 In Scotland
Events from the year 1810 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun * Solicitor General for Scotland – David Boyle Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Avontoun * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Granton Events * 25 March – the Commercial Bank of Scotland is founded in Edinburgh by John Pitcairn, Lord Cockburn and others. * 10 May – Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire. * 10 November – Paisley canal disaster: A pleasure craft capsizes on the newly-completed first section of the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal with the loss of 84 lives. * 19 December – Frigates and are wrecked near Dunbar. * Monach Islands abandoned for the first time, due to overgrazing. * Edinburgh Theological College founded to train clergy for the Scottish Episcopal Church. Births * 5 February – John Muir, Indologis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tannahill
Robert Tannahill (3 June 1774 – 17 May 1810) was a Scottish poet of labouring class origin. Known as the 'Weaver Poet', he wrote poetry in English and lyrics in Scots in the wake of Robert Burns. Life Robert Tannahill was born in Castle Street in Paisley to Janet (née Pollock) and James Tannahill, a silk gauze weaver. Soon after his birth the family moved to a newly built cottage in nearby Queen Street, which became both family home and weaving shop. Tannahill had a delicate constitution and a limp, due to a slight deformity in his right leg. On leaving school at age 12, he was apprenticed to his father as a handloom weaver. It was during this time that he began to show an interest in poetry. With his apprenticeship completed, Tannahill left Paisley in late 1779 to work in Bolton, Lancashire. He returned in late 1801 to support his family. His father died soon after his return and he cared for his infirm mother. As he reported in a letter to a friend, "My brother Hugh an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 In Scotland
Events from the year 1839 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – John Murray until April; then Andrew Rutherfurd * Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Rutherfurd; then James Ivory Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Granton * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events * January – the first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson. * 29 May – Mungo Ponton presents his discovery of the light-sensitive quality of sodium dichromate as a method of permanent photography. * 10 June – Major Chartist meeting on Glasgow Green. * 15 June – ''David Clark'', the first emigrant ship to sail directly from Great Britain to Port Phillip sets out from Greenock under the command of Capt. J. B. Mills, with mainly Scots assisted immigrants, arriving in Australia on 27 October. * 15 July – first clipper ship launched in Britain, the schooner ''Scottis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Farquhar
William Farquhar ( ; 26 February 1774 – 11 May 1839) was a Scottish colonial administrator employed by the East India Company, who served as the sixth Resident of Malacca between 1813 and 1818, and the first Resident of Singapore between 1819 and 1823. History Early life Farquhar was born in Newhall, Aberdeenshire, near Aberdeen in 1774 as the youngest child of Robert Farquhar and Agnes Morrison, his father's second wife. His brother, Arthur, two years his senior, rose to the rank of rear admiral in the Royal Navy, and received a knighthood for his distinguished services during the Napoleonic Wars. Shortly after arriving in Madras on 19 June 1791, Farquhar joined the East India Company as a cadet at the age of 17. He was promoted to a low-rank commissioned officer of the Madras Engineer Group on 22 June 1791. Two years later, on 16 August 1793, he became a lieutenant in the Madras Engineer Group. Malacca Between 1795 and 1818, Farquhar was the chief administrator of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1827 In Scotland
Events from the year 1827 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, 3rd Baronet, Sir William Rae, Bt * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope, Lord Hope, John Hope Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Charles Hope, Lord Granton, Lord Granton * Lord Justice General – James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – David Boyle, Lord Boyle, Lord Boyle Events * – Robert Wilson (engineer), Robert Wilson of Dunbar demonstrates a screw propeller. * 14 August – the foundation stone of the George IV Bridge in Edinburgh is laid as authorised by an Improvement Act of this year. * 29 November – Burke and Hare sell their first corpse for dissection by Robert Knox in Edinburgh. * The Loretto School is established in Musselburgh by Rev. Thomas Langhorne. * The Argyll Arcade opens in Glasgow. * Boddam, Aberdeenshire#Buchan Ness lighthouse, Buchan Ness lighthouse, designed by Robert Stevens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Constable
Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer. Life Constable was born at Carnbee, Fife, son of the land steward to the Earl of Kellie. In 1788 Archibald was apprenticed to Peter Hill, an Edinburgh bookseller, but in 1795 he started in business for himself as a dealer in rare books. He bought the rights to publish the '' Scots Magazine'' in 1801, and John Leyden, the orientalist, became its editor. In 1800 Constable began the ''Farmer's Magazine'', and in November 1802 he issued the first number of the '' Edinburgh Review'', under the nominal editorship of Sydney Smith; Lord Jeffrey, was, however, the guiding spirit of the review, having as his associates Lord Brougham, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Hallam, John Playfair and afterwards Lord Macaulay. Constable made a new departure in publishing by the generosity of his terms to authors. Writers for the ''Edinburgh Review'' were paid at an unprecedented rate, and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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