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1786 In Scotland
Events from the year 1786 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Ilay Campbell * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas of Arniston Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger * Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming Events * Northern Lighthouse Board formed as the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses by Act of Parliament largely at the urging of the lawyer and politician "Honest" George Dempster, to oversee the construction and operation of (at this time) four Scottish lighthouses: Kinnaird Head, North Ronaldsay, Scalpay and Mull of Kintyre. * New Lanark established in South Lanarkshire by David Dale, as a model cotton milling community. * Millwright Andrew Meikle invents a practical threshing machine. Births * 28 February – Christian Ramsay, botanist (died 1839) * 23 August – John Clunies-Ross, settler of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (die ... [...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] |
Scalpay, Outer Hebrides
Scalpay (; gd, Sgalpaigh or ''Sgalpaigh na Hearadh''; i.e. "Scalpay of Harris" to distinguish it from Scalpay off Skye) is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Toponym Mac an Tàilleir (2003) suggests the name derives from "ship island" from the Norse. However, Haswell-Smith states that the Old Norse name was ''Skalprøy'', meaning "scallop island". Geology and geography Scalpay is around long and rises to a height of at Beinn Scorabhaig. The area of Scalpay is . The main settlement on the island is at the north, near the bridge, clustered around ''An Acairseid a Tuath'' (North Harbour). The bedrock of northwest and of southeast Scalpay is Archaean gneiss belonging to the Lewisian Complex. Across the centre of the island is a band of mylonite and protocataclasite associated with the Outer Hebrides Thrust Zone. Some restricted occurrences of amphibolite and ultramafic rocks are also present. A number of tholeiitic dykes of Tertiary age cross the island with ... [...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] |
George Beattie (poet)
George Beattie (18 September 1786 – 29 September 1823) was a Scottish poet. Biography George Beattie was the son of a crofter and salmon fisher at ''Whitehill'', near St Cyrus, Kincardineshire, where he was born in 1786 to parents, William Beattie and Elizabeth Scott. George was the third eldest of seven children whose names in descending chronology were: ''James - born/baptised on 10.12.1780; Joseph - born/baptised on 16/05/1784; George/''William'' - born/baptised on 18.09.1786; Mary - born/baptised on 27.02.1789; Catherine - born/baptised on 19.03.1791; Elizabeth - born/baptised on 08/05/1794 and David - born between 1791-1798.'' He received a good education at the parish school of St Cyrus. During his boyhood and even into adulthood, he was notorious for his frolics and love of practical jokes. It is also related of him, that on Saturday afternoons it was his delight to wander among the "braes" of St Cyrus, and that he used to "visit the auld kirkyard with a kind o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
