1838 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1838 Events from the year 1838 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers Lord Advocate – John Murray Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Rutherfurd Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Granton Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events Winter 1837/38 – the Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney is discovered. January – leaders of the Glasgow cotton spinners' strike are sentenced to penal transportation (but cleared of murder).The Chartist Movement in Scotland Alexander Wilson Manchester University Press 1970 071900411X 2 March – Clydesdale Bank founded in Glasgow.Chronology of Scottish History A Timeline of Scottish History Rampant Scotland http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm 2014-05-14 4–22 April – Leith-built paddle steamer Sirius 1837 makes the transatlantic crossing from Cork to New York in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.Steamship Curaçao http://www.vrcurassow.com/2dvrc/sscuracao/sscuracao.html 2011-02-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20101224202256/http://vrcurassow.com/2dvrc/sscuracao/sscuracao.html 2010-12-24 live 1 May – Jenners department store established as drapers in Princes Street, Edinburgh.A Hundred Years in Princes Street 1838-1938 Edinburgh Jenners 1938 21 May Chartist meeting on Glasgow Green at which the People's Charter is launched.Where History Happened: Chartism http://www.historyextra.com/feature/where-history-happened-chartism History Extra BBC 2010-05-12 2014-07-07 Elizabeth Jeffrey of Carluke is hanged in Glasgow for poisoning a neighbour and a lodger.May 21st – 21/5/1838 – Elizabeth Jeffrey – Carluke, Lanarkshire http://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crime_series_show.php?series_number=3&id=313 Victorian Hangings True Crime Library London 2014-06-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20140714180132/http://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crime_series_show.php?series_number=3&id=313 14 July 2014 dead dmy-all c. June – Robert Napier receives his first contract from the Admiralty, for supply of side-lever engines for installation in HM paddle sloops Vesuvius and Stromboli.http://www.electricscotland.com/history/napier/chapter06.htm The Life of Robert Napier of West Shandon VI. Admiralty James Napier Edinburgh 1904 2016-03-15 4 July – Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway authorised.Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway Engineering Timelines http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=1228 2014-05-14 25 July – Caledonian Curling Club founded in Edinburgh. 4 August – the Court Journal prints a rumour that Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, is going to host a great jousting tournament at his castle in Scotland. A few weeks later he confirms this.Mark Girouard Mark Girouard The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman https://archive.org/details/returntocamelotc00giro registration Yale University Press New Haven 1981 92 16 August – Debtors (Scotland) Act 1838 passed. 7 September – Dundee paddle steamer Forfarshire (1834), homeward bound from Hull, is wrecked on the Farne Islands off the north east coast of England with the loss of more than 40 people; Grace Darling rescues nine survivors.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 The Hebridean islands of Barra and Benbecula are sold by the MacNeils and Ranald MacDonald respectively to Colonel Gordon of Cluny. Glen Ord Distillery established on the Black Isle.Glen Ord Scotch Whisky Distillery ScotchWhisky.net http://www.scotchwhisky.net/distilleries/glen_ord.htm 2014-05-14 14 May 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140514182954/http://www.scotchwhisky.net/distilleries/glen_ord.htm dead The Ordnance Survey commences the primary triangulation of Scotland.Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882: A Scottish paper landscape Christopher Fleet Charles W. J. Withers http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch/os_info1.html National Library of Scotland 2014-09-05 David Brewster originates the stereoscope. Royal Scottish Academy is granted its Royal charter. Floors Castle is remodelled in Scottish Baronial style by William Henry Playfair for James Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe. Births 13 January – William Miller, Free Church missionary and educationalist (died 1923) 29 January – David Gray, poet (died 1861) 22 February – John Joseph Jolly Kyle, chemist in Argentina (died 1922 in Buenos Aires) 14 March – Robert Flint, Theologian and philosopher (died 1910) 25 March – William Wedderburn, civil servant in India (died 1918 in England) 26 March – Alexander Crum Brown, organic chemist (died 1922) 21 April – John Muir, conservationist (died 1914 in the United States) 17 May – William Esson, mathematician (died 1916 in England) 6 June – Thomas Blake Glover, merchant (died 1911 in Japan) 6 July – Thomas John MacLagan, doctor and pharmacologist (died 1903) 7 July – Thomas Davidson, poet (died 1870) 22 July – John McLagan, newspaper publisher (died 1901 in Canada) 6 August – Walter Shirlaw, artist in the United States (died 1909 in Spain) 3 September – David Bowman, botanist (died 1868 in Colombia) 4 September – William Gibson Sloan, Plymouth Brethren evangelist (died 1914 in the Faroe Islands) 6 September – George Ashdown Audsley, architect, artist, illustrator, writer, decorator and pipe organ designer (died 1925 in the United States) 9 September – Thomas Barker, mathematician (died 1907 in England) 10 October – William M'Intosh, physician and marine zoologist (died 1931) 16 October – John Smart, landscape painter (died 1899) 2 November – James Dykes Campbell, merchant and writer (died 1895) 4 November – Andrew Martin Fairbairn, theologian (died 1912 in England) 18 November – William Keith, landscape painter in California (died 1911 in the United States) John Firth, Orcadian folklorist (died 1922) Alexander Mackenzie, historian, author, magazine editor and politician (died 1898) Samuel McGaw recipient of the Victoria Cross, during the First Ashanti Expedition (died in 1878) Bruce James Talbert, interior designer (died 1881 in England) Deaths 30 March – Thomas Balfour, politician (born 1810) 12 July – John Jamieson, lexicographer (born 1759) 27 July – David Hume, advocate (born 1757) 1 October – Charles Tennant, chemist and industrialist (born 1768) 7 November – Anne Grant, poet and author (born 1755) 16 November – Robert Cutlar Fergusson, lawyer and politician (born 1768) The arts 31 August – scene painter David Roberts sets sail for Egypt to produce a series of drawings of the region for use as the basis for paintings and chromolithographs. November – Johann Strauss I and his orchestra visit Edinburgh and Glasgow. Alexander and John Bethune publish Tales and Sketches of the Scottish Peasantry.Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Angus MacKay publishes A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd or Highland Bagpipe Music.https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3109/angus-mackay-1813-1859-piper-queen-victoria-1843-1854 Alexander Johnston National Galleries of Scotland 2022-09-19 See also Scotland 1838 in Ireland References collapsed Scotland Category:1830s in Scotland Scotland