1850 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1850 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1850 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — Andrew Rutherfurd
- Solicitor General for Scotland — Thomas Maitland; then James Moncreiff
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Boyle
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Glencorse
Events
- 1 April — Aberdeen Railway opens to a terminus at Ferryhill, Aberdeen.
- 18 June — The paddle steamer Orion sinks off Portpatrick[1] through the negligence of her master with the loss of 50 lives.
- 17 October — James Young patents a method of distilling paraffin from coal, laying the foundations for the Scottish paraffin industry.
- Cox Brothers open the Camperdown Works in Dundee which will become the world's largest jute works.
- Remodelling of Dunrobin Castle completed.
- Skara Brae revealed by weather.
Births
- 4 February — Thomas Lomar Gray, seismologist (died 1908 in the United States)
- 24 April — Murdo MacKenzie, businessman (died 1939 in the United States)
- 30 April — George Gibb, transport administrator (died 1925 in London)
- 12 May — Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, jurist, landowner, industrialist and Unionist politician (died 1934 in London)
- 14 June — Eliza Humphreys, née Gollan (pen name 'Rita'), novelist (died 1938 in England)
- 13 August — Peter Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (died 1918)
- 13 November — Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (died 1894 in Samoa)
- 11 December — Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, married into European nobility (died 1922 in Budapest)
Deaths
- 26 January — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (born 1773)
- 5 June — Thomas Brown, architect (born 1781)
- 18 June — John Burns, surgeon (born 1775) (in PS Orion disaster)
- 12 July — Robert Stevenson, civil engineer noted for lighthouses (born 1772)[2]
- 3 December — John Gibb, civil engineer and contractor (born 1776)
- 29 December — William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (born 1792 in Ireland)
- Approximate date - Walter Sutherland, last native speaker of the Norn language on Unst
See also
References
- ↑ Kennedy, John (2007). The History of Steam Navigation. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4304-8330-4.
- ↑ "Robert Stevenson". Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
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