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1841 in Scotland
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1841
Events from the year 1841 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Lord Advocate – Andrew Rutherfurd until September; then Sir William Rae, Bt
Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Maitland; then Duncan McNeill
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Granton until 20 July; then from 7 October Lord Boyle
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle, then Lord Hope
Events
29 March – the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway is opened between Glasgow Bridge Street railway station and Greenock.
14 May – Irish navvies Dennis Doolan and Patrick Redding are hanged at Crosshill, Bishopbriggs (near Glasgow and site of the later Cadder Yard), the location at which they participated in the murder of ganger John Green on the works of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on 10 December 1840.May 14th – 14/5/1841 – Dennis Doolan and Patrick Redding – Glasgow http://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crime_series_show.php?series_number=3&id=308 Victorian Hangings True Crime Library London 2014-06-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714122146/http://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crime_series_show.php?series_number=3&id=308 14 July 2014 dead dmy-all
28 May – seven church ministers of the Presbytery of Strathbogie are removed from their posts by the General assembly of the Church of Scotland for obeying civil rather than ecclesiastical law.
6 June – United Kingdom Census taken across Scotland.1841 Scotland Census ancestry.co.uk, accessed 27 December 2013.
September – Townhill waggonway opened in Fife.
Autumn – Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor tours Scotland.The Chartist Movement in Scotland Alexander Wilson Manchester University Press 1970 071900411X
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opens Cowlairs railway works in the Springburn district of Glasgow.
Births
8 January – Alexander Stuart Murray, archaeologist (died 1904)
Murray Hall, born Mary Anderson, bail bondsman and politician in the United States (died 1901)
Deaths
1 June – David Wilkie, painter (born 1785)
The arts
January – Franz Liszt visits Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Publication of Vocal Melodies of Scotland including "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond".
See also
Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1841 in Ireland
References
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