1833 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1833 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
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Timeline of Scottish history
1833 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 16 March â 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 â Glasgow Necropolis opened.[2]
- 10 April â St Peter's RC Primary School, Aberdeen, founded.[3]
- 28 August ââ 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 â the Edinburgh Emancipation Society, Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, Glasgow Emancipation Society and Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society are formed in support of abolitionism.
- 30 October â 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 â Robert Lawson, architect (died 1902 in New Zealand)
- 24 February â William Howie Wylie, journalist and Baptist (died 1891)
- 20 March â Daniel Dunglas Home, medium (died 1886 in France)
- 16 April â John Malcolm, 1st Baron Malcolm, soldier and politician (died 1902 in France)
- 22 April â John Waldie, politician in Ontario (died 1907 in Canada)
- 16 July â Donald Reid, landowner, businessman and politician in Otago (died 1919 in New Zealand)
- 26 July â Alexander Henry Rhind, antiquarian and Egyptologist (died 1863 in Italy)
- 12 August â Aylmer Cameron, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1909 in England)
- 12 November â George Paul Chalmers, painter (killed 1878)
- 14 December â Alexander Young, mechanical engineer and government official in Hawaii (died 1910 in Honolulu)
Deaths
- 3 May â James Bell, geographical writer (born 1769)
- 29 May â William Marshall, fiddle player and composer (born 1748)
- August â Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone, soldier, colonial governor and fraudster (born 1767; died in France)
- 10 October â Thomas Atkinson, poet, bookseller and politician (born c.1801; died at sea)
- 11 November â James Grant, naval officer (born 1772; died in France)
- 30 November â William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, lawyer and antiquarian (born 1743)
The arts
- May â 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]
