1864 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1864 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1864 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1864 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 21 June â last public execution in Edinburgh â George Bryce, the Ratho murderer.[1]
- 19 July â Chalmers Hospital opened in Banff, Aberdeenshire.[2]
- 2 September â the first Ottoman ironclad Osmaniye is launched by Robert Napier and Sons on the River Clyde.
- 8 December â James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, treating light as an electromagnetic wave.[3]
- Hall, Russell & Company established as marine engineers in Aberdeen.
- The National Bank of Scotland becomes the first Scottish bank to open an office in London.[4]
- Historian John Hill Burton publishes The Scot Abroad.
Births
- 2 January â James Caird, shipowner (died 1954 in England)
- 17 January â David Torrence, film actor (died 1951)
- 4 February - Willie Park Jr., golf professional (died 1925 in Scotland)
- 5 February â Marion Gilchrist, medical doctor (died 1952)
- 6 February â John Henry Mackay, anarchist writer (died 1933 in Germany)
- 14 February â James Burns, shipowner (died 1919)
- 8 March â James Craig Annan, photographer (died 1946)
- 28 May â Jessie Newbery, née Rowat, embroiderer (died 1948 in England)
- 10 June â Ninian Comper, Gothic Revival architect (died 1960 in England)
- 1 October â Alexander Grant, biscuit manufacturer (died 1937)
- 7 October â Harrington Mann, painter (died 1937 in the United States)
- 31 October â Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945 in England)
- 4 November â Robert Lorimer, architect (died 1929)[5]
- 13 December â John Quinton Pringle, painter (died 1925)
Deaths
- 6 January â John Clements Wickham, explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator (born 1798)
- 1 June â Sir John Watson Gordon, portrait painter (born 1788)
- 6 August â Catherine Sinclair, novelist and children's writer (born 1800)
- 1 October â Ignatius Spencer, English priest (born 1799)