1834 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1834 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
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Timeline of Scottish history
1834 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Francis Jeffrey until May; then John Murray until November; then Sir William Rae, Bt
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Henry Cockburn; then Andrew Skene; then Duncan McNeill
Judiciary
Events
- May â Dean Bridge in Edinburgh opened to horse and cart traffic.[1]
- 29 July â a steam carriage designed by John Scott Russell on the GlasgowâPaisley road overturns and suffers a boiler explosion causing the death of four passengers.[2]
- 11 September â emigrant ship Sybelle out of Cromarty wrecked off St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia) with the loss of all 316 passengers and all but six of her crew.[3]
- 9 October â first shipment of tea direct from India arrives at the Broomielaw quay in Glasgow.[4]
- 26 December â Ursulines of Jesus take up residence at St Margaretâs Convent in the Whitehouse in Edinburgh, the first Roman Catholic convent established in Scotland since the Reformation;[5] it will be another 5 years before the first such modern establishment in England.
- Naval architect John Scott Russell first observes a nondecaying solitary wave (a soliton, which he calls "the Wave of Translation") while watching a boat hauled through the water of the Union Canal near Edinburgh, subsequently using a tank to study the dependence of solitary wave velocities on amplitude and liquid depth.[6]
- Thomas Henderson is appointed first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
- Edinburgh Geological Society is established.
- Princess Royal Maternity Hospital is established as the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary.
- Annan Bridge built by Robert Stevenson.
- Moffat Academy is established by merger of the local grammar and parish schools.
- Charles Randolph establishes the millwrighting business of Randolph & Elliott in the Tradeston district of Glasgow, predecessor of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company.[7]
- The McGeoch family establish a pawnbrokers in Paisley, predecessor of the chain store M&Co. (Mackays).
- The Second (New) Statistical Account of Scotland begins publication under the auspices of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
- The Evangelical Thomas Chalmers becomes chairman of the General Assembly's church extension committee.[8]
- The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews gains its royal patronage.
Births
- 27 January â Alexander Asher, politician and Solicitor General for Scotland (died 1905)
- 16 March â James Hector, geologist (died 1907 in New Zealand)[9]
- 5 April â Robert Rowand Anderson, architect (died 1921)
- 12 April â William Hope, soldier, recipient of the Victorian Cross (died 1909 in London)
- 27 April â Margaret Macpherson Grant, heiress and philanthropist (died 1877)
- 4 July â Christopher Dresser, designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style (died 1904 in England)
- 22 August â George Kynoch, businessman (died 1891 in South Africa)
- 17 September â Robert Simpson, retail merchant (died 1897 in Canada)
- 1 October â Mary Mackellar, née Cameron, Gaelic poet and translator (died 1890)
- 12 October â Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, né Stewart, politician (died 1923)
- 23 November â James Thomson ("B.V."), poet (died 1882 in London)
- Probable date â Peter Dodds McCormick, schoolteacher, composer of the Australian national anthem (died 1916 in Australia)
Deaths
- 26 March â Jean Armour, widow of Robert Burns (born 1765)
- 9 June â John Henry Wishart, surgeon (born 1781)
- 12 July â David Douglas, botanist (born 1799; died in Hawaii)
- 2 September â Thomas Telford, civil engineer (born 1757; died in London)
- 16 September â William Blackwood, publisher and writer (born 1776)
- 21 September â Robert Edmonstone, painter (born 1794)
- 24 November â John Gillies, botanist (born 1792)
- 5 December â Thomas Pringle, writer, poet and abolitionist (born 1789; died in London)
- 7 December â Edward Irving, founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church (born 1792)
- Anne Forbes, portrait painter (born 1745)
- Probable date â Sarah Bezra Nicol, actress (born in England)
