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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1833 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1833 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
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.[1]
- April — Glasgow Necropolis opened.[2]
- 10 April — St Peter's RC Primary School, Aberdeen, founded.[3]
- 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.[4]
- 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.[5]
- 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.[6]
- Chemist Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law.
- Statue of William Pitt the Younger (died 1806) erected in George Street, Edinburgh.[7]
- 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, lawyer 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.[8]
- Allan Cunningham's poem The Maid of Elvar is published.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ "Scotland". The Spectator. London. 1833-03-23. p. 9. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
- ↑ Glasgow City Council. Glasgow Necropolis Heritage Trail.
- ↑ "Father Charles Gordon". Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
- ↑ MacLeod, H. MacLennan (1962). "The Parish of Killearn". In Rennie, R.C. The County of Stirling. The Third Statistical Account of Scotland, 18. Glasgow: Collins.
- ↑ Galloway, D. D. (1989). In the Footsteps of Dr. Bell. St Andrews: Madras College.
- ↑ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
- 1 2 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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