1854 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1854 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
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Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Colonsay
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Glencorse
Events
- 1 January — Victoria Bridge, Glasgow, opened over the River Clyde at Stockwell Street, replacing the Bishop's Bridge.[1]
- July — First voyage by a seagoing steamship fitted with a compound steam engine, the screw steamer Brandon, built on the River Clyde by John Elder.[2]
- 20 September — Aberdeen Kittybrewster railway station opened to serve the Great North of Scotland Railway main line to Keith.
- 11 October — Temporary North Unst Lighthouse on Muckle Flugga (Shetland), designed by brothers Thomas and David Stevenson, first illuminated.
- 24 October — The Thin Red Line: a military action by the Sutherland Highlanders red-coated 93rd (Highland) Regiment at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.[3] Pipe Major John MacLeod has during this campaign transcribed the tune "The Green Hills of Tyrol" for the bagpipes.[4]
- November — The Orcadian newspaper begins publication in Kirkwall.
- Brown and Polson's patent corn flour first produced, in Paisley.[5]
Births
- 27 January — George Alexander Gibson, physician and geologist (died 1913)
- 31 March — Dugald Clerk, mechanical engineer, inventor of the two-stroke engine (died 1932 in England)
- 17 May — Donald MacAlister, physician and academic (died 1934 in England)
- 8 June — Eustace Balfour, architect (died 1911)
- 21 July — David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (died 1938)
- 21 August — James Paterson, painter (died 1932)
- 17 September — David Dunbar Buick, automobile engineer (died 1929 in the United States)
- 2 October — Patrick Geddes, town planner (died 1932 in France)
- 22 October — Robert Urie, steam locomotive engineer (died 1937)
- 27 October — William Alexander Smith, businessman and founder of the Boys' Brigade (died 1914 in England)
- William Lithgow, shipbuilder (died 1908)
- Neil Kennedy, Lord Kennedy, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1912-18 (died 1918)
Deaths
- 17 February — William Mitchell, coalowner (born 1781)
- 3 April — John Wilson, writer (born 1785)
- 19 September — Peter Buchan, printer and collector of folk literature (born 1790)
- 6 October — Archibald Bell, lawyer and writer (born 1776)
- 25 November — John Gibson Lockhart, writer and editor (born 1794)
See also
References
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