1836 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1836 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1836 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1836 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session â Lord Granton
- Lord Justice General â The Duke of Montrose until 30 December (separate office abolished on his death)
- Lord Justice Clerk â Lord Boyle
Events
- 17 May â Arbroath and Forfar Railway authorised.
- 19 May â Dundee and Arbroath Railway authorised.
- June â 17 miniature coffins of unknown provenance are found in a cave on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.[1]
- 1 July â North of Scotland Bank (a constituent of Clydesdale Bank) established in Aberdeen[2] by Alexander Anderson and others.
- 16 July â the brig Mariner leaves Loch Eriboll on the north coast for Cape Breton Island and Quebec in British North America with 154 emigrants, mostly from the nearby Reay district.[3]
- 30 July â Savings Bank of Glasgow established.[3]
- 7 August â St Andrew's Cathedral, Dundee (Roman Catholic) opened.
- 13 August â Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway authorised.
- Botanical Society of Scotland established as the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.
- Glasgow and Ship Bank established by merger of the Glasgow Banking Company and the Ship Bank.[4]
- Robert Napier launches the paddle sloop Berenice for the East India Company, the first steam warship built in Scotland, the (wooden) hull being subscontracted to John Wood of Port Glasgow.[5]
- Construction of Granton harbour begun
- Construction of modern Inverness Castle.
- Former windmill at Maxwelltown opens as converted into an astronomical observatory and the world's oldest working camera obscura, basis of the modern-day Dumfries Museum.
- Wellington School, Ayr, established for "young ladies of quality" by Mrs Gross.
- John MacCulloch's geological map of Scotland is published posthumously.
Births
- 13 January â Alexander Whyte, minister of the Free Church of Scotland and theologian (died 1921)
- 12 February â John Gerard Anderson, educationalist in Queensland (died 1911 in Australia)
- 21 February â Alexander Dickson, botanist (died 1887)
- 22 February â William Angus Knight, philosopher and literary scholar (died 1916)
- 10 March â John Rhind, architect (died 1889)
- 18 March â James Laidlaw Maxwell, Presbyterian missionary in Taiwan (died 1921)
- 31 March â William Dingwall Fordyce, Liberal politician (died 1875)
- 5 April â John Scott, botanist (died 1880)
- 24 May â William Mortimer Clark, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1915)
- 9 June â Thomas McCall Anderson, physician (died 1908)
- 21 June â Robert Farquharson, physician and Liberal politician (died 1918)
- 26 June â Aeneas Chisholm (Bishop of Aberdeen), Roman Catholic priest (died 1918)
- 26 July â Jessie Seymour Irvine, psalmist (died 1887)
- 3 August â Colin Scott-Moncrieff, irrigation engineer in India and Egypt and Under-Secretary for Scotland (died 1916 in England)
- 11 August â Hugh Gilzean-Reid, journalist and Liberal politician (died 1911 in London)
- 7 September â Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1908 in 10 Downing Street, London)
- 23 September â Samuel Chisholm, Liberal politician and Lord Provost of Glasgow (died 1923)
- 22 October â Mungo Park, golfer (died 1904)
- 28 October â James Edward Tierney Aitchison, surgeon and botanist (died 1898)
- 16 November â David Binning Monro, classical scholar (died 1905)
- 4 December (probable date) â Duncan MacGregor Crerar, poet (died 1916)
- John Gregorson Campbell, minister of the church and folklorist (died 1891)
Deaths
- 15 February â John Gillies, Historiographer Royal for Scotland (born 1747)
- 24 February â Henry Liston, minister of the church and inventor (born 1771)
- 4 April â John Grieve, poet (born 1781)
- 23 June â James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (born 1773; died in London)
- 11 July â James Howe, animal and portrait painter (born 1780)
- August â Sir John Hope, British Army officer (born 1765)
- 21 October â Donald Gregory, antiquarian (born 1803)
- 26 November â John Loudon McAdam, civil engineer and road-builder (born 1756)
- 30 December â James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose, nobleman, politician and Lord Justice General (born 1755)
- John Heaviside Clark, artist (born c.1771)
The arts
- Painter David Wilkie is granted a knighthood.
- 5 March â George Brodie appointed Historiographer Royal
