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1774 In Scotland
Events from the year 1774 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate β James Montgomery * Solicitor General for Scotland β Henry Dundas Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session β Lord Arniston, the younger * Lord Justice General β Duke of Queensberry * Lord Justice Clerk β Lord Barskimming Events * 27 June β 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 * Punitive laws against the Clan Gregor are repealed.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 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Gregor
Clan Gregor, also known as Clan MacGregor, is a Scottish Highlands, Highland Scottish clan that claims an origin in the early 9th century. The clan's most famous member is Rob Roy MacGregor of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The clan is also known to have been among the first families of Scotland to begin playing the bagpipes in the early 17th century. History Origins of the clan Clan Gregor held lands in Glen Orchy, Glenlochy and Glenstrae. According to Iain Moncreiffe the MacGregors were descended from an ancient Celts, Celtic royal family, through the Abbots of Glendochart. This is alluded to in the clan's motto: "Royal is my race". There is also a tradition that Gregor was the brother of Kenneth MacAlpin. Though there is little evidence to support this tradition, it is supported by the Scottish historian, William Forbes Skene, William Skene. It is possible that the eponymous Gregor from whom the family derives may have been Griogair, son of Dungal, who was allege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Allan (poet)
Robert Allan (4 November 1774 β 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 called New York City (NY ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1846 In Scotland
Events from the year 1846 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate β Duncan McNeill until July; then Andrew Rutherfurd * Solicitor General for Scotland β Adam Anderson; then Thomas Maitland Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General β Lord Boyle * Lord Justice Clerk β Lord Hope Events * January β African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass arrives in Scotland from Ireland to continue his speaking tour of the United Kingdom. * 22 June β 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 β inauguration of Scott Monument in Edinburgh. * 21 December β 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 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Duncan (minister)
Henry Duncan Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (8 October 1774 β 12 February 1846) was a Scottish Ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland, 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, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1839. At the Disruption has left the Church of Scotland and sided with the Free Church of Scotland (1843β1900), 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 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1810 In Scotland
Events from the year 1810 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate β Archibald Colquhoun * Solicitor General for Scotland β David Boyle Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session β Lord Avontoun * Lord Justice General β The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk β Lord Granton Events * 25 March β the Commercial Bank of Scotland is founded in Edinburgh by John Pitcairn, Lord Cockburn and others. * 10 May β Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire. * 10 November β 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 β 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 β John Muir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tannahill
Robert Tannahill (3 June 1774 β 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 Tannahill was born in Castle Street in Paisley to Janet (nΓ©e 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 and I are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 In Scotland
Events from the year 1839 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate β John Murray until April; then Andrew Rutherfurd * Solicitor General for Scotland β Andrew Rutherfurd; then James Ivory Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General β Lord Granton * Lord Justice Clerk β Lord Boyle Events * January β the first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson. * 29 May β Mungo Ponton presents his discovery of the light-sensitive quality of sodium dichromate as a method of permanent photography. * 10 June β Major Chartist meeting on Glasgow Green. * 15 June β ''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 β first clipper ship launched in Britain, the schooner '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Farquhar
Major-General William Farquhar (26 February 1774 β 11 May 1839) was a Madras Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the resident of Malacca from 1803 to 1818 and the resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. 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 Madras Army of the East India Company as a cadet at the age of 17. He was promoted to a low-rank commissioned officer in the Madras Sappers on 22 June 1791. Two years later, on 16 August 1793, he became a lieutenant in the Madras Sappers. Malacca Between 1795 and 1813, Farquhar was the chief administrator of British-occupied Malacca. Farquhar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1827 In Scotland
Events from the year 1827 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate β Sir William Rae, 3rd Baronet, Sir William Rae, Bt * Solicitor General for Scotland β John Hope, Lord Hope, John Hope Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session β Charles Hope, Lord Granton, Lord Granton * Lord Justice General β James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk β David Boyle, Lord Boyle, Lord Boyle Events * β Robert Wilson (engineer), Robert Wilson of Dunbar demonstrates a screw propeller. * 14 August β the foundation stone of the George IV Bridge in Edinburgh is laid as authorised by an Improvement Act of this year. * 29 November β Burke and Hare sell their first corpse for dissection by Robert Knox (surgeon), 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, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Constable
Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 β 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, based on the High Street south of the Mercat Cross. In 1795 Constable started in business for himself as a dealer in rare books, taking a unit immediately opposite Peter Hill, on the north side of the Mercat Cross. He was then living in a house in Calton village on the edge of Calton Hill. 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 Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society
''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society. In its earliest days, it was a private venture of the Royal Society's secretary. It was established in 1665, making it the second journal in the world exclusively devoted to science, after the '' Journal des sçavans'', and therefore also the world's longest-running scientific journal. It became an official society publication in 1752. The use of the word ''philosophical'' in the title refers to natural philosophy, which was the equivalent of what would now be generally called ''science''. Current publication In 1887 the journal expanded and divided into two separate publications, one serving the physical sciences ('' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences'') and the other focusing on the life sciences ('' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences''). Both journals now publish theme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
