1847 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1847 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Boyle
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Hope
Events
- 25 April — The brig Exmouth carrying emigrants from Derry bound for Quebec is wrecked off Islay with only three survivors from more than 250 on board.[1][2]
- 4 May — Glenalmond College opens its doors.
- 18 September — Educational Institute of Scotland formally constituted as a teachers' union "for the purpose of promoting sound learning and of advancing the interests of education in Scotland".[3]
- 4–8 November — James Young Simpson discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an obstetric case in Edinburgh.[4][5]
- 23 November — The Otago Association ship Philip Laing sets sail from Greenock carrying settlers, mostly from the Free Church of Scotland, bound for Port Chalmers in New Zealand.
- The congregations of the United Secession Church unite with most of those of the Relief Church to form the United Presbyterian Church.[6]
- The Ordnance Survey confirms Ben Nevis as the highest mountain in the British Isles, ahead of Ben Macdui.
Births
- 29 January — John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie, KT, Liberal politician, former Secretary for Scotland (died 1887)
- 8 February — Lord Francis Douglas, mountaineer (killed 1865 on the Matterhorn)
- 13 February — Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, "Concrete Bob", founder of construction firm Sir Robert McAlpine (died 1934)
- 3 March — Alexander Graham Bell, scientist and inventor (died 1922 in Nova Scotia)
- 28 March — Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson, art critic (died 1900)
- 27 April — Archibald Orr-Ewing, MP (died 1893)
- 2 July — Andrew Gray, physicist and mathematician (died 1925)
- 28 July — James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, politician, astronomer and bibliophile (died 1913)
- 3 August — John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC, former Governor General of Canada (died 1934)
- 12 September — John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, KT, landowner and Rector of the University of St Andrews (died 1900)
Deaths
- 31 May — Thomas Chalmers, mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland (born 1780)
- 7 June — David Mushet, metallurgist (born 1772)
- 9 August — Andrew Combe, physician and phrenologist (born 1797)
- 29 August — William Simson, Scottish-born painter best known as a landscapist (born 1798 or 1799)
- 20 November — Henry Francis Lyte, Anglican divine and hymn-writer (born 1793)
- 7 December — Robert Liston, pioneering surgeon (born 1794)
- Archibald Simpson, architect (born 1790)
The Arts
- R. M. Ballantyne returns to Edinburgh from Canada.
- The Sobieski Stuarts' fictional Tales of the Century: or Sketches of the romance of history between the years 1746 and 1846 is published.
See also
References
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