1859 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1859 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
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Timeline of Scottish history
1859 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Charles Baillie until April; then David Mure until June; then James Moncreiff
- Solicitor General for Scotland â David Mure; then George Patton; then Edward Maitland
Judiciary
Events
- 2 February â a Crinan Canal reservoir dam bursts.
- 21 April â the Dunfermline Press begins publication.
- 14 October â Glasgow Town Council's Loch Katrine public water supply scheme officially opened.[1]
- 23 December â National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, a predecessor of the National Museum of Scotland, officially inaugurated in Queen Street, Edinburgh.[2]
- Muirkirk becomes the first town in Britain to have gas lighting.
- St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society opens its first shop in Edinburgh.
- Robertson's "Golden Shred" marmalade first produced, in Paisley.
- First whaler purpose-built with a steam engine, the Narwhal from Stephen's shipyard at Dundee.[3]
Births
- 27 January â James Grierson, British Army lieutenant general (died on service 1914 in France)
- 8 March â Kenneth Grahame, author best known for The Wind in the Willows (died 1932 in England)
- 10 March â Dugald Sutherland MacColl, painter and curator (died 1948 in London)
- 25 March â John Bruce Glasier, socialist politician (died 1920)
- 22 May â Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and fiction writer best known for his stories about the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (died 1930 in England)[4]
- 10 June â James Guthrie, painter (died 1930)
- 8 July â Annie Shepherd Swan, novelist (died 1943)
- 9 September â William James Cullen, Lord Cullen, judge (died 1941)
- 24 September â S. R. Crockett, novelist (died 1914 in France)
- 25 October â Allan MacDonald, Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (died 1905)
- 18 November â James Nairn, painter (died 1904 in New Zealand)
- Thomas Corsan Morton, painter (died 1928)
Deaths
- 6 February â Jane Stirling, pianist, student of Chopin (born 1804)
- 21 March â Angus MacKay, piper (born 1813)
- 19 September â John Pringle Nichol, scientist (born 1804)
- 22 September â William Alison, physician and social reformer (born 1790)
- 20 November â Mountstuart Elphinstone, statesman and historian (born 1779)
- 22 November â George Wilson, chemist and professor of technology (born 1818)
The arts
- 26 August â Jules Verne arrives in Edinburgh to begin his first visit to Scotland.
- John Brown's short story "Rab and his Friends" is published.