1833 in Scotland

Events from the year 1833 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Francis Jeffrey
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Cockburn

Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
* Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

Events

* 16 March – at an auction of the art collection of John Clerk, Lord Eldin (died 1832) at his home in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, the floor collapses, killing the banker Alexander Smith.
* April – Glasgow Necropolis opened.
* 10 April – St Peter's RC Primary School, Aberdeen, founded.
* 28 August –– the Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners, many of whom are in Scotland.
* 7 October – the Edinburgh Emancipation Society, Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, Glasgow Emancipation Society and Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society are formed in support of abolitionism.
* 30 October – Edinburgh Town Council first allows newspaper reporters to attend its meetings.
* Burgh Police (Scotland) Act permits burghs to establish themselves as police burghs, having powers to provide policing and to pave and light streets.
* Glengoyne distillery is established as the Burnfoot distillery by George Connell on the Highland line near Dumgoyne.
* John Menzies is established as a newsagent in Edinburgh.
* Madras College is established in St Andrews by merger of the grammar and English schools under the bequest of locally-born educationalist Rev. Dr. Andrew Bell (died 1832), promoter of the ' Madras system' of education.
* Chemist Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law.
* Statue of William Pitt the Younger (died 1806) erected in George Street, Edinburgh.
* The Royal Perth Golfing Society gains its royal patronage.

Births

* 1 January – Robert Lawson, architect (died 1902 in New Zealand)
* 24 February – William Howie Wylie, journalist and Baptist (died 1891)
* 20 March – Daniel Dunglas Home, medium (died 1886 in France)
* 16 April – John Malcolm, 1st Baron Malcolm, soldier and politician (died 1902 in France)
* 22 April – John Waldie, politician in Ontario (died 1907 in Canada)
* 16 July – Donald Reid, landowner, businessman and politician in Otago (died 1919 in New Zealand)
* 26 July – Alexander Henry Rhind, antiquarian and Egyptologist (died 1863 in Italy)
* 12 August – Aylmer Cameron, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1909 in England)
* 12 November – George Paul Chalmers, painter (killed 1878)
* 14 December – Alexander Young, mechanical engineer and government official in Hawaii (died 1910 in Honolulu)

Deaths

* 3 May – James Bell, geographical writer (born 1769)
* 29 May – William Marshall, fiddle player and composer (born 1748)
* August – Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone, soldier, colonial governor and fraudster (born 1767; died in France)
* 10 October – Thomas Atkinson, poet, bookseller and politician (born c.1801; died at sea)
* 11 November – James Grant, naval officer (born 1772; died in France)
* 30 November – William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, lawyer and antiquarian (born 1743)

The arts

* May – the final revised edition of ''The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart'', edited by Scott's son-in-law J. G. Lockhart, begins publication.
* Allan Cunningham's poem ''The Maid of Elvar'' is published.

See also

* 1833 in the United Kingdom

References

{{Years in Scotland , state=collapsed

Scotland
1830s in Scotland