1869 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1869 in Scotland .

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

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

• 5 January – Scotland's oldest professional Association football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded.
• 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.
• 27 March – the Japanese ironclad Ryūjō is launched at Alexander Hall and Company's shipyard in Aberdeen. ^[1]
• 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.
• 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 there). ^[2]
• 22 November – the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, one of the last clippers built and the only one to survive in the UK. ^[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]
• Inverness Cathedral (Scottish Episcopal Church) is opened for worship as the first new Protestant cathedral to be completed in Great Britain since the Reformation. ^[5]
• An Episcopal chapel from St Andrews is moved stone by stone in fishing boats to Buckhaven and re-erected there. ^[6]
• 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. ^[7]
• Glasgow University Rugby Football Club is founded.

Births

• 14 January – Dennis Eadie, character actor (died 1928)
• 26 January – George Douglas Brown, novelist (died 1902)
• 14 February – Charles Wilson, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
• 17 April – Robert Robertson, chemist (died 1949)
• 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

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1869 in Ireland

References

1. "Jho Sho Maru". Aberdeen Built Ships. Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
2. Elston, M. A. (2004). "Edinburgh Seven (act. 1869–1873)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN   0-14-102715-0.
4. "St Mary's Monastery (Kinnoull Monastery)". Gazetteer for Scotland. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
5. "Our History". Inverness Cathedral. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
6. "History of All Saints' church, St Andrews, From 1824–present". St Andrews: All Saints'. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
7. The English Mechanic and World of Science 14 May & 11 June 1869.