1831 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1831 Events from the year 1831 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers Lord Advocate – Francis Jeffrey Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Cockburn Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events Spring – the 12th-century Lewis chessmen are found in a sand-bank on the Isle of Lewis. 19–21 March – one of Goldsworthy Gurney’s steam road coaches runs from Edinburgh to Glasgow.The Glasgow Herald 25 March 1831. May – Wellington Suspension Bridge over River Dee at Aberdeen opened to all traffic. 10 May – first steam locomotive to be built in Glasgow completed by Murdoch, Aitken & Co. for the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.The Glasgow Courier 12 May 1831. Mid-May – mineral traffic over Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway commences.Don Martin The Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway Strathkelvin District Libraries & Museums Auld Kirk Museum Publications, no. 6 1981 0-904966-06-2 14–19 1 June A regular horse-drawn passenger service between Leaend at Airdrie and Glasgow over the Ballochney, Monkland and Kirkintilloch and Garnkirk and Glasgow Railways commences. One of Goldsworthy Gurney’s steam road coaches suffers a boiler explosion in Glasgow.The Glasgow Courier 4 June 1831. 6 June – first iron steamboat to be launched on the River Clyde, Fairy Queen by John Neilson & Sons.The Glasgow Herald 10 June 1831. 4 July – opening of first section of Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, from St Leonards to Craighall,John Thomas John Thomas (author) A regional history of the railways of Great Britain, volume VI: Scotland – the Lowlands and the Borders Newton Abbot David & Charles 1971 0-7153-5408-6 234 including St Leonards Tunnel, Scotland's earliest tunnel on a public railway, and the early cast iron bridge at Braid Burn (erected in March). August – the Dugald Stewart Monument in Edinburgh, designed by W. H. Playfair, is completed. 1 August – the Roman Catholic St Thomas's Church, Keith, is opened for worship. 27 September – formal opening of Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway: locomotive St Rollox hauls Scotland’s first steam-worked passenger train from the Townhead terminus at Glasgow to Gartsherrie. 16 December – opening of first section of Dundee and Newtyle Railway, the first public railway in the north of Scotland (horse worked). 23 December – the second cholera pandemic (1829–51) reaches Scotland.Chronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm 2014-07-30 The Ardrossan and Johnstone Railway opens as a waggonway from Johnstone to Kilwinning.Lewin, Henry Grote 1925 Early British Railways: A short history of their origin and development 1801–1844 London The Locomotive Publishing Co 11064369 17–18 Dunnet Head lighthouse, designed by Robert Stevenson, is built. North Church in Aberdeen, designed by John Smith, is opened. The Burns Monument, Edinburgh (on Calton Hill), is designed by Thomas Hamilton. William Wallace invents the eidograph.Waterston Charles D. Shearer A. Macmillan Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index http://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf 2012-01-23 2 964 Royal Society of Edinburgh 978-0-902198-84-5 July 2006 Glenugie distillery is established as Invernettie at Peterhead by Donald McLeod;The Wordsworth Dictionary of Drink Halley Ned 2005 Ware Wordsworth Editions 978-1-84022-302-6 257 https://books.google.com/books?id=5X6oVI-qngwC&dq=Glenugie&pg=PA257 2008-09-13 Talisker distillery is opened at Carbost, Talisker, Skye, by Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill. Births 31 January – Alexander Balmain Bruce, theologian (died 1899) February – George Stewart, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1868 in England) 31 March – Archibald Scott Couper, organic chemist (died 1892) 2 April – David MacGibbon, architect (died 1902) 26 April – James Donaldson, classical scholar, educationalist and theological writer (died 1915) 28 April – Peter Tait, mathematical physicist (died 1901) 7 May – Richard Norman Shaw, architect (died 1912 in England) 28 May – Richard B. Angus, financier (died 1922 in Canada) 13 June – James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (died 1879 in England) 24 June – Robert Wallace, writer and politician (died 1899 in England) 3 July – Edmund Yates, writer (died 1894 in England) 18 July – John Skelton, lawyer, author and administrator (died 1897) 17 August – John McLaren, politician and judge (died 1910) 13 September – Andrew Noble, physicist (died 1915) 12 October – Helen Acquroff, pianist, singer, poet and music teacher (died 1887)Ewan Elizabeth Pipes Rose Rendall Jane Reynolds Siân The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women Edinburgh University Press 9781474436281 4 17 October – Isa Craig, née Knox, poet (died 1903 in England) 23 November – David MacKay, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1880) 25 December – John Bartholomew, cartographer (died 1893) Deaths 14 January – Henry Mackenzie, novelist (born 1745) 4 February – William Ritchie, newspaper editor (born 1781) 14 February – Robert Brown, agriculturalist (born 1757) 22 March – William Symington, engineer and steamboat builder (born 1764; died in London) May – James Campbell, army officer (born 1745) 1 July – Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, industrial chemist (born 1748; died in Paris) 16 August – Sir Hugh Innes, politician (born c. 1764) 17 August – Patrick Nasmyth, landscape painter (born 1787) Joseph Lowe, economist The arts James Hogg publishes Songs, by the Ettrick Shepherd.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm The Literary and Commercial Society of Glasgow is last known to be active. 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