1864 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 thumb|right | alt=A drawing of Chalmers Hospital | Chalmers Hospital 1864 Events from the year 1864 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff Solicitor General for Scotland – George Young Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond Events 21 June – last public execution in Edinburgh – George Bryce, the Ratho murderer.History of Edinburgh http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm Visions of Scotland 2014-05-12 14 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm dead 19 July – Chalmers Hospital opened in Banff, Aberdeenshire.http://www.nhsgrampian.org/nhsgrampian/gra_display_simple_index.jsp?pContentID=499&p_applic=CCC&p_service=Content.show& Chalmers Hospital - Banff NHS Grampian 2013-11-15 2014-05-12 2 September – the first Ottoman ironclad Osmaniye is launched by Robert Napier and Sons on the River Clyde. 8 December – James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, treating light as an electromagnetic wave.10.1098/rstl.1865.0008 Maxwell J. Clerk A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field.pdf PDF Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London 155 459–512 1865 2013-06-17 Hall, Russell & Company established as marine engineers in Aberdeen. The National Bank of Scotland becomes the first Scottish bank to open an office in London.The National Bank of Scotland 1825-1925 1925 Historian John Hill Burton publishes The Scot Abroad. Births 2 January – James Caird, shipowner (died 1954 in England) 17 January – David Torrence, film actor (died 1951) 4 February - Willie Park Jr., golf professional (died 1925 in Scotland) 5 February – Marion Gilchrist, medical doctor (died 1952) 6 February – John Henry Mackay, anarchist writer (died 1933 in Germany) 14 February – James Burns, shipowner (died 1919) 8 March – James Craig Annan, photographer (died 1946) 28 May – Jessie Newbery, née Rowat, embroiderer (died 1948 in England) 10 June – Ninian Comper, Gothic Revival architect (died 1960 in England) 1 October – Alexander Grant, biscuit manufacturer (died 1937) 7 October – Harrington Mann, painter (died 1937 in the United States) 31 October – Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945 in England) 4 November – Robert Lorimer, architect (died 1929)Christopher Hussey (historian) Hussey Christopher The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer Country Life 1931 13 December – John Quinton Pringle, painter (died 1925) Deaths 6 January – John Clements Wickham, explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator (born 1798) 1 June – Sir John Watson Gordon, portrait painter (born 1788) 6 August – Catherine Sinclair, novelist and children's writer (born 1800) 1 October – Ignatius Spencer, English priest (born 1799) See also Timeline of Scottish history 1864 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1860s in Scotland Scotland