1782 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1782 Events from the year 1782 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Henry Dundas; Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Murray Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming Events 23 January – local Laird George Ludovic Houston invites purchase of marked plots of land which, when built upon, form the planned town of Johnstone, to provide employment for his thread and cotton mills, and one of the latter is erected by Corse, Burns & Co. May – first patient admitted to Montrose Lunatic Asylum, the first such institution to be founded in Scotland, largely due to Susan Carnegie of Charleton.Walbaum Sharlene D 2019-12-01 The invisible woman: Susan Carnegie and Montrose Lunatic Asylum https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X19860035 History of Psychiatry en 30 4 409–423 10.1177/0957154X19860035 31257940 195760632 0957-154X subscription 1 July – Act of Proscription 1746 (including Dress Act) repealed, permitting wearing of Highland dress and arms. Muslin first woven in Scotland by James Monteith at Anderston.W. R. Kermack 19 Centuries of Scotland Edinburgh Johnston 1944 80 Births 2 February – James Chalmers, printer, publisher and bookseller, claimed inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (died 1853) 17 March – Andrew Halliday, physician, reformer and writer (died 1839) 16 April – William Jerdan, journalist (died 1869 in London) 15 August – James Smith of Jordanhill, merchant, antiquarian and architect (died 1867) 7 September – Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, novelist (died 1854) 7 October – Charles Maclaren, editor and geologist (died 1866) Grace Kennedy, writer of religious novels (died 1825) Deaths 18 January – Sir John Pringle, military physician (born 1707; died in London) 4 March – Margaret Lindsay Ramsay, noblewoman, second wife of Allan Ramsay (artist) (born c. 1726) 13 October – John Farquharson, Jesuit (born 1699) 10 December – Alexander Spiers, tobacco merchant 27 December – Henry Home, Lord Kames, advocate and philosopher (born 1697) The arts Oxenfoord Castle is rebuilt to designs by Robert Adam. Robert Burns writes the poem "Comin' Thro' the Rye". Sport First race run at original Hamilton Park Racecourse. Scotland References collapsed Category:Years of the 18th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1780s in Scotland Scotland