1838 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1838 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1838 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1838 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- Winter 1837/38 â the Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is discovered.
- January â leaders of the Glasgow cotton spinners' strike are sentenced to penal transportation (but cleared of murder).[1]
- 2 March â Clydesdale Bank founded in Glasgow.[2]
- 4â22 April â Leith-built paddle steamer SS Sirius (1837) makes the transatlantic crossing from Cork to New York in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.[3]
- 1 May â Jenners department store established as drapers in Princes Street, Edinburgh.[4]
- 21 May
- c. June â Robert Napier receives his first contract from the Admiralty, for supply of side-lever engines for installation in HM paddle sloops Vesuvius and Stromboli.[7]
- 4 July â Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway authorised.[8]
- 25 July â Caledonian Curling Club founded in Edinburgh.
- 4 August â the Court Journal prints a rumour that Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, is going to host a great jousting tournament at his castle in Scotland. A few weeks later he confirms this.[9]
- 16 August â Debtors (Scotland) Act 1838 passed.
- 7 September â Dundee paddle steamer Forfarshire (1834), homeward bound from Hull, is wrecked on the Farne Islands off the north east coast of England with the loss of more than 40 people; Grace Darling rescues nine survivors.[10]
- The Hebridean islands of Barra and Benbecula are sold by the MacNeils and Ranald MacDonald respectively to Colonel Gordon of Cluny.
- Glen Ord Distillery established on the Black Isle.[11]
- The Ordnance Survey commences the primary triangulation of Scotland.[12]
- David Brewster originates the stereoscope.
- Royal Scottish Academy is granted its Royal charter.
- Floors Castle is remodelled in Scottish Baronial style by William Henry Playfair for James Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe.
Births
- 13 January â William Miller, Free Church missionary and educationalist (died 1923)
- 29 January â David Gray, poet (died 1861)
- 22 February â John Joseph Jolly Kyle, chemist in Argentina (died 1922 in Buenos Aires)
- 14 March â Robert Flint, Theologian and philosopher (died 1910)
- 25 March â William Wedderburn, civil servant in India (died 1918 in England)
- 26 March â Alexander Crum Brown, organic chemist (died 1922)
- 21 April â John Muir, conservationist (died 1914 in the United States)
- 17 May â William Esson, mathematician (died 1916 in England)
- 6 June â Thomas Blake Glover, merchant (died 1911 in Japan)
- 6 July â Thomas John MacLagan, doctor and pharmacologist (died 1903)
- 7 July â Thomas Davidson, poet (died 1870)
- 22 July â John McLagan, newspaper publisher (died 1901 in Canada)
- 6 August â Walter Shirlaw, artist in the United States (died 1909 in Spain)
- 3 September â David Bowman, botanist (died 1868 in Colombia)
- 4 September â William Gibson Sloan, Plymouth Brethren evangelist (died 1914 in the Faroe Islands)
- 6 September â George Ashdown Audsley, architect, artist, illustrator, writer, decorator and pipe organ designer (died 1925 in the United States)
- 9 September â Thomas Barker, mathematician (died 1907 in England)
- 10 October â William M'Intosh, physician and marine zoologist (died 1931)
- 16 October â John Smart, landscape painter (died 1899)
- 2 November â James Dykes Campbell, merchant and writer (died 1895)
- 4 November â Andrew Martin Fairbairn, theologian (died 1912 in England)
- 18 November â William Keith, landscape painter in California (died 1911 in the United States)
- John Firth, Orcadian folklorist (died 1922)
- Alexander Mackenzie, historian, author, magazine editor and politician (died 1898)
- Samuel McGaw recipient of the Victoria Cross, during the First Ashanti Expedition (died in 1878)
- Bruce James Talbert, interior designer (died 1881 in England)
Deaths
- 30 March â Thomas Balfour, politician (born 1810)
- 12 July â John Jamieson, lexicographer (born 1759)
- 27 July â David Hume, advocate (born 1757)
- 1 October â Charles Tennant, chemist and industrialist (born 1768)
- 7 November â Anne Grant, poet and author (born 1755)
- 16 November â Robert Cutlar Fergusson, lawyer and politician (born 1768)
The arts
- 31 August â scene painter David Roberts sets sail for Egypt to produce a series of drawings of the region for use as the basis for paintings and chromolithographs.
- November â Johann Strauss I and his orchestra visit Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Alexander and John Bethune publish Tales and Sketches of the Scottish Peasantry.[13]
- Angus MacKay publishes A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd or Highland Bagpipe Music.[14]
