1850 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1850 thumb | 220x124px | right | Broughton Burn, 1850 Events from the year 1850 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Andrew Rutherfurd Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Maitland; then James Moncreiff Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glencorse Events 1 April – Aberdeen Railway opens to a terminus at Ferryhill, Aberdeen. 15 April – iron paddle steamer City of Glasgow 1850 6, built by Tod & Macgregor of Partick, makes her maiden voyage as the first steamer on the Glasgow–New York route. 18 June – paddle steamer Orion sinks off PortpatrickKennedy John The History of Steam Navigation 2007 Kessinger Publishing 978-1-4304-8330-4 through the negligence of her master with the loss of 50 lives. 17 October – James Young patents a method of distilling paraffin from coal, laying the foundations for the Scottish paraffin industry. December – destitute Gaelic speakers from the island of Barra begin to appear in Glasgow, displaced by the Highland Clearances. Cox Brothers open the Camperdown Works in Dundee which will become the world's largest jute works. Remodelling of Dunrobin Castle completed. Skara Brae revealed by weather. Births 4 February – Thomas Lomar Gray, seismologist (died 1908 in the United States) 24 April – Murdo MacKenzie, businessman (died 1939 in the United States) 30 April – George Gibb, transport administrator (died 1925 in London) 12 May – Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, jurist, landowner, industrialist and Unionist politician (died 1934 in London)Lord Aberconway, Industrialist, Dies; Sat in British Commons 1880 to 1910 http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/01/24/95029959.html?zoom=16.26 2020-09-23 timesmachine.nytimes.com en 27 May – Thomas Neill Cream, the "Lambeth Poisoner", serial killer (hanged 1897 in London) 14 June – Eliza Humphreys, née Gollan (pen name 'Rita'), novelist (died 1938 in England) 13 August – Peter Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (died 1918) 22 August – William Morrison, chemist, creator of an electric carriage (died 1927 in the United States) 13 November – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (died 1894 in Samoa) 11 December – Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, married into European nobility (died 1922 in Budapest) Deaths 26 January – Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (born 1773) 5 June – Thomas Brown, architect (born 1781) 18 June – John Burns, surgeon (born 1775) (in PS Orion disaster) 12 July – Robert Stevenson, civil engineer noted for lighthouses (born 1772)http://www.nlb.org.uk/HistoricalInformation/StevensonEngineers/Robert-Stevenson/ Robert Stevenson Northern Lighthouse Board 2009 2014-04-14 3 December – John Gibb, civil engineer and contractor (born 1776) 29 December – William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (born 1792 in Ireland) Approximate date – Walter Sutherland, last native speaker of the Norn language on Unst See also Timeline of Scottish history 1850 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1850s in Scotland Scotland