1865 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1865 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 Glenalmond
Events
- 16 January — New fishing harbour at St Monans completed.
- 3 March — Thomas Sutherland founds the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
- 28 July — English general practitioner Edward William Pritchard becomes the last person publicly hanged in Glasgow (on Glasgow Green), for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law in the city.[1]
- 6 October — The iron cargo/passenger steamer Agamemnon is launched by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock. Equipped with an efficient compound steam engine, she pioneers trade by steam to the Far East.
- 30–31 December — 24 vessels are wrecked around the Dubh Artach reef in a storm.
- 165 emigrants leave the island of Raasay for Australia.
- Joseph Lister begins to experiment with antiseptic surgery in Glasgow using carbolic acid.[2]
- Fourth cholera pandemic reaches Scotland.
- James Clerk Maxwell (who this year moves back to the family home at Glenlair House) publishes A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.[2]
- Amhuinnsuidhe Castle on Harris is built for Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore by David Bryce.[3]
Births
- 28 March — Mary Findlater, novelist (died 1963)
- 27 April — Archibald Leitch, architect, most famous for his work designing stadia throughout the British Isles (died 1939)
- 28 June — David Young Cameron, painter (died 1945)
- 17 October — Dugald Cowan, educationalist and Liberal politician (died 1933)
- 6 November — William Boog Leishman, military physician (died 1926)
- William Gillies, nationalist (died 1932)
- John Quinton Pringle, painter (died 1925)
Deaths
- 18 January — James Beaumont Neilson, ironmaster (born 1792)
- 5 June — John Richardson, Royal Navy surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (born 1787)[4]
- 4 August — William Edmondstoune Aytoun, poet, humorist and lawyer (born 1813)
- 19 October — Robert Crichton Wyllie, physician, businessman and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawaii (born 1798)
- 23 December — Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1807)
The Arts
- Gaelic poet William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe)'s collection Duain agus Orain is published in Glasgow[5]
- George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen is published
See also
References
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- ↑ Whyte, Christopher (1991). William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
