1834 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1834 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Francis Jeffrey until May; then John Murray until November; then Sir William Rae, Bt
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Cockburn; then Andrew Skene; then Duncan McNeill

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

Events

• May – Dean Bridge in Edinburgh opened to horse and cart traffic. ^[1]
• 29 July – a steam carriage designed by John Scott Russell on the Glasgow–Paisley road overturns and suffers a boiler explosion causing the death of four passengers. ^[2]
• 11 September – emigrant ship Sybelle out of Cromarty wrecked off St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia) with the loss of all 316 passengers and all but six of her crew. ^[3]
• 9 October – first shipment of tea direct from India arrives at the Broomielaw quay in Glasgow. ^[4]
• 26 December – Ursulines of Jesus take up residence at St Margaret’s Convent in the Whitehouse in Edinburgh, the first Roman Catholic convent established in Scotland since the Reformation; ^[5] it will be another 5 years before the first such modern establishment in England.
• Naval architect John Scott Russell first observes a nondecaying solitary wave (a soliton, which he calls "the Wave of Translation") while watching a boat hauled through the water of the Union Canal near Edinburgh, subsequently using a tank to study the dependence of solitary wave velocities on amplitude and liquid depth. ^[6]
• Thomas Henderson is appointed first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
• Edinburgh Geological Society is established.
• Princess Royal Maternity Hospital is established as the Glasgow Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary.
• Annan Bridge built by Robert Stevenson.
• Moffat Academy is established by merger of the local grammar and parish schools.
• Charles Randolph establishes the millwrighting business of Randolph & Elliott in the Tradeston district of Glasgow, predecessor of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company. ^[7]
• The McGeoch family establish a pawnbrokers in Paisley, predecessor of the chain store M&Co. (Mackays).
• The Second (New) Statistical Account of Scotland begins publication under the auspices of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
• The Evangelical Thomas Chalmers becomes chairman of the General Assembly's church extension committee. ^[8]
• The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews gains its royal patronage.

Births

• 27 January – Alexander Asher, politician and Solicitor General for Scotland (died 1905)
• 16 March – James Hector, geologist (died 1907 in New Zealand) ^[9]
• 5 April – Robert Rowand Anderson, architect (died 1921)
• 12 April – William Hope, soldier, recipient of the Victorian Cross (died 1909 in London)
• 27 April – Margaret Macpherson Grant, heiress and philanthropist (died 1877)
• 4 July – Christopher Dresser, designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style (died 1904 in England)
• 22 August – George Kynoch, businessman (died 1891 in South Africa)
• 17 September – Robert Simpson, retail merchant (died 1897 in Canada)
• 1 October – Mary Mackellar, née Cameron, Gaelic poet and translator (died 1890)
• 12 October – Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, né Stewart, politician (died 1923)
• 23 November – James Thomson ("B.V."), poet (died 1882 in London)
• Probable date – Peter Dodds McCormick, schoolteacher, composer of the Australian national anthem (died 1916 in Australia)

Deaths

• 26 March – Jean Armour, widow of Robert Burns (born 1765)
• 9 June – John Henry Wishart, surgeon (born 1781)
• 12 July – David Douglas, botanist (born 1799; died in Hawaii)
• 2 September – Thomas Telford, civil engineer (born 1757; died in London)
• 16 September – William Blackwood, publisher and writer (born 1776)
• 21 September – Robert Edmonstone, painter (born 1794)
• 24 November – John Gillies, botanist (born 1792)
• 5 December – Thomas Pringle, writer, poet and abolitionist (born 1789; died in London)
• 7 December – Edward Irving, founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church (born 1792)
• Anne Forbes, portrait painter (born 1745)
• Probable date – Sarah Bezra Nicol, actress (born in England)

See also

• Scotland portal

• 1834 in Ireland

References

1. Catford, E. F. (1975). Edinburgh: The Story of a City. London: Hutchinson. ISBN   0-09-123850-1.
2. "Lamentable Accident". Caledonian Mercury . 31 July 1834. p. 4.
3. "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 1225. 24 October 1834.
4. "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
5. "Introduction" (pdf). Edinburgh: The Gillis Centre. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
6. Russell, J. Scott (September 1844), "Report on waves" (PDF), Fourteenth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , York, pp. 311–390, retrieved 28 August 2012
7. "Charles Randolph". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
8. Kermack, W. R. (1944). 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh: Johnston. p. 87.
9. Dell, R. K. (1990). "Hector, James". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 13 October 2021.