1862 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1862 Events from the year 1862 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff Solicitor General for Scotland – Edward Maitland; then George Young Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond Events 24 February – St Abb's Head lighthouse first illuminated. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse is also completed this year.Butt of Lewis http://www.nlb.org.uk/Lighthouse.aspx?id=575 Northern Lighthouse Board 2009 2014-07-22 25 June 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130625045344/http://www.nlb.org.uk/Lighthouse.aspx?id=575 dead May Around 40% of the Fair Isle population migrates to New Brunswick.Hutchison Iain The 1862 Fair Isle Clearance to New Brunswick The Scottish Historical Review 102 2023 91–115 The 10.00 a.m. "Special Scotch Express", predecessor of the Flying Scotsman express train, first departs from London King's Cross railway station for Edinburgh Waverley over the East Coast Main Line. 1 June – the 10.00 a.m. passenger service, predecessor of the Royal Scot express train, first departs from London Euston railway station for Glasgow over the West Coast Main Line.The "Royal Scot" Route http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r001.html Mike's Railway History 1935 2014-08-21 July – the Glasgow & Stranraer Steam Packet Company's Briton enters service on the first Stranraer to Larne ferry service.http://www.portoflarne.co.uk/about-us/history/ History Port of Larne 2014-04-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20190310020107/http://www.portoflarne.co.uk/about-us/history 10 March 2019 dead 28 August – the Portpatrick Railway opens to Portpatrick; on 1 October it opens its branch to Stranraer Harbour. 31 August – last mail coach runs from Carlisle to Hawick.http://www.carlisleshistory.co.uk/page24.htm C3 – Coaching Carlisle Encyclopaedia Carlisle History 2010-09-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20101018185512/http://www.carlisleshistory.co.uk/page24.htm 2010-10-18 live 20 September – SS Irishman runs aground on Skernataid Rock between the islands of Raasay and Scalpay, Inner Hebrides. 11 October – Jessie M'Lachlan, having been found guilty in the Sandyford murder case in Glasgow, is to be hanged, but has her sentence commuted to life imprisonment. 13 October – Winchburgh rail crash: A head-on collision on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway kills 15. 18 December – "Day of the Great Drowning": 31 men, the entire crews of five fishing boats from Ness, Lewis, are drowned in a storm.Disasters Society Am Baile http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/sub_section.jsp?SectionID=7&currentId=196 2014-08-14 12 August 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140812233822/http://ambaile.org.uk/en/sub_section.jsp?SectionID=7&currentId=196 dead Prime gilt, a duty levied by Trinity House of Leith on goods coming into the port, is abolished. Henry Littlejohn becomes Edinburgh's first Medical Officer of Health, serving until 1908. David Kirkaldy publishes Results of an Experimental Inquiry into the Comparative Tensile Strength and other properties of various kinds of Wrought-Iron and Steel in Glasgow describing his pioneering work in tensile testing. Bishop Robert Eden is elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, an office he will hold until his death in 1886. Establishment of Anderson High School (Shetland) in Lerwick. Tom Morris Sr. wins The Open Championship at Prestwick Golf Club, Ayrshire.http://www.opengolf.com/en/History/PreviousOpens.aspx?eventid=1862000&view= Prestwick – 1862 2013-06-21 opengolf.com First Aberdeen Angus herd book created. Inverewe Garden created by Osgood Mackenzie in Wester Ross. Births 1 January – Andrew Blain Baird, engineer and aviation pioneer (died 1951) 28 June – William Younger, politician (died 1937) 11 August – David Henderson, British Army officer (died 1921 in Switzerland) 29 August – Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia (died 1928 in England)Murphy D. J. Fisher, Andrew (1862–1928) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fisher-andrew-378 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 20 December 2021 en 21 October – Donald Murray, Liberal Party Member of Parliament for the Western Isles from 1918 to 1922 (died 1923) 26 October – David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans, Scottish advocate and judge, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1918–34 (died 1948) Deaths 24 September – William Forbes Mackenzie, Conservative politician and temperance reformer (born 1807 in England) 29 June – James Bowman Lindsay, inventor (born 1799) See also Timeline of Scottish history 1862 in Ireland References Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1860s in Scotland Scotland