1840 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1840 Events from the year 1840 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers Lord Advocate – Andrew Rutherfurd Solicitor General for Scotland – James Ivory; then Thomas Maitland Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Granton Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events 10 January – Uniform Penny Post introduced throughout the United Kingdom, replacing the Uniform Fourpenny Post of 1839. From 6 May, the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp, becomes valid for prepayment of postage. Advocates of the scheme include Robert Wallace (MP for Greenock) and James Chalmers. 14 January – the first known baptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland take place in the River Clyde at Bishopton when Samuel Mulliner, a Scot who joined the church in Canada, baptizes Alexander and Jessie Hay. In May, Orson Pratt preaches from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.History of the Church in the British Isles http://www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk/article/history-of-the-mormon-church-in-the-british-isles The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2013 2014-06-10 July – last known great auk in the British Isles caught and later killed on the islet of Stac an Armin, St Kilda, Scotland.Rackwitz Martin Travels to Terra Incognita: the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides in Early Modern Travellers' Accounts c. 1600 to 1800 Waxmann Verlag 2007 347 978-3-8309-1699-4Gaskell Jeremy Who Killed the Great Auk? Oxford University Press 2000 142 https://books.google.com/books?id=tsUzeXV_7jcC 978-0-19-856478-2 2010-08-07Fuller Errol The Great Auk: The Extinction of the Original Penguin Bunker Hill Publishing 2003 34 https://books.google.com/books?id=35rGM50pAoAC 978-1-59373-003-1 2010-08-07 4 July – the Cunard Line's 700-ton wooden paddle steamer Britannia, launched by Robert Duncan & Company at Greenock on 5 February, departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the first steam transatlantic passenger mail service. Scottish marine engineer Robert Napier is a major partner in the venture and has supplied the ship's engine.W. R. Kermack 19 Centuries of Scotland Edinburgh Johnston 1944 87 21 July – first burial at the Southern Necropolis in Glasgow. 12 August – the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway is opened throughout between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Ayr, the first inter-urban railway in Scotland. 15 August – foundation stone of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh is laid.History of Edinburgh http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm Visions of Scotland 2014-02-27 14 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm dead 31 August – the Slamannan Railway is opened. Approximate date – Forglen House, designed by John Smith, is completed.LB13603 Forglen House A 2019-03-28 Births 1 January – Dugald Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (died 1912 in England) 24 January – George Smith, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles (Catholic) (died 1918) 5 February Charlotte Carmichael, pioneer of higher education for women (died 1929 in England) John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (died 1921 in Ireland) 3 March – Hugh Smellie, steam locomotive engineer (died 1891) 22 April – Thomas Clouston, psychiatrist (died 1915) 15 July – William Wilson Hunter, official of the Indian Civil Service (British India) (died 1900 in England) 29 November – James Crichton-Browne, psychiatrist (died 1938) J. M. Brydon, architect (died 1901 in England) Deaths 9 March – George Gleig, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (born 1753) 10 April – Alexander Nasmyth, painter (born 1758) See also Scotland 1840 in Ireland References collapsed Category:19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1840s in Scotland Scotland