1869 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1869 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
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Law officers
- Lord Advocate — James Moncreiff until October; then George Young
- Solicitor General for Scotland — George Young; then Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Moncreiff
Events
- 13 January — The story magazine The People's Friend is first published in Dundee; it will continue to be published by D. C. Thomson & Co. more than 140 years later.
- 5 January — Scotland's oldest professional Association football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
- 27 March — The Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen.[1]
- October — The 'Edinburgh Seven', led by Sophia Jex-Blake, start to attend lectures at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, the first women in the UK to do so (although they will not be allowed to take degrees).[2]
- 13 September — The Solway Junction Railway is opened for iron ore traffic, including a 1 mile 8 chain (1.8 km) viaduct across the Solway Firth.
- 22 November — The clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive into the 21st century.[3]
- The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer first takes up residence at St. Mary's Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth (built 1866-8), the first Roman Catholic monastery established in Scotland since the Reformation.[4]
- Construction of Inverness Cathedral is finished.
- An Episcopal chapel from St Andrews is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to Buckhaven and re-erected there.[5]
- The Caledonian Brewery is established in Shandon, Edinburgh, by George Lorimer and Robert Clark.
- Thomas McCall of Kilmarnock builds two velocipedes driven by levers to cranks on the rear wheel.[6]
- Glasgow University Rugby Football Club is founded.
Births
- 26 January — George Douglas Brown, novelist (died 1902)
- 14 February — Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
- 11 June — Walford Bodie, stage magician (died 1939)
Deaths
- 11 July — William Jerdan, journalist, (born 1782)
- 20 September — George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, judge (born 1803; suicide)
See also
References
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- ↑ The English Mechanic and World of Science 14 May & 11 June 1869.
