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1860
Events from the year 1860 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff
Solicitor General for Scotland – Edward Maitland
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond
Events
15 September – King's and Marischal Colleges in Aberdeen merge as the University of Aberdeen.
October – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations the first Thurso life-boat at Scrabster.
17 October – the first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick, regarded as the first Open (although it is not truly open until the following year when amateurs can participate).http://www.theopen.com/en/History/PreviousOpens.aspx?eventid=1860000&view= Prestwick - 1860 theopen.com 2013-06-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20160307195019/http://www.theopen.com/en/History/PreviousOpens.aspx?eventid=1860000&view= 7 March 2016 dead dmy-all
21 December – St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen (Roman Catholic) is dedicated.A Brief History https://www.stmaryscathedralaberdeen.org/about-us/brief-history/ St Mary's Cathedral Aberdeen 2016-02-10
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, opens.
Andrew Stewart sets up the Clyde Tube Works in Glasgow, a predecessor of Stewarts & Lloyds.Stewarts and Lloyds Limited 1903–1953 6
Folklorist John Francis Campbell begins publication of Popular Tales of the West Highlands in Edinburgh.
Births
6 March – Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, politician, 6th Governor-General of Australia (died 1934)
7 March – John Duncan Watson, civil engineer (died 1946 in Birmingham)
22 March – John George Bartholomew, cartographer (died 1920)
15 April – Edward Arthur Walton, painter (died 1922)
2 May
John Scott Haldane, physiologist (died 1936)
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (died 1948)
9 May – J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937 in London)
30 May – Archibald Thorburn, wildlife painter (died 1935 in Surrey, England)
3 July – William Wallace, composer (died 1940)
31 July – George Warrender, admiral (died 1917 in London)
3 August – William Kennedy Dickson, inventor, pioneer of cinematography, born in France (died 1935 in Twickenham, England)
19 August – John Kane, naïve painter (died 1934 in the United States)
25 September – John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1st Governor-General of Australia (died 1908 in France)
21 November – James Leith Macbeth Bain, religious minister, hymn writer and walker (died 1925)
26 November – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (died 1932)
James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
James Miller, architect (died 1947)
Deaths
27 January – Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales and astronomer (born 1773)
25 March – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, often regarded as the first genuine hypnotherapist (born 1795)
1 April – William Mure, scholar and politician (born 1799)
25 August – William Wilson, poet and publisher (born 1801)
James Barr, composer (born 1779)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
1860 in Ireland
References
Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland
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