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1814 in Scotland
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1814
Events from the year 1814 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Maconochie
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle
Events
From midyear – Highland Clearances: Patrick Sellar begins mass expulsion of crofting tenants from Strathnaver at Grummore to make way for sheep farming as factor for the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford.
7 July – Walter Scott's Waverley, his first prose fiction and one of the first significant historical novels in English, set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, selling out in two days.Waverley Walter Scott http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/waverley.html Edinburgh University Library 2011-12-19 2013-06-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20130430192256/http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/waverley.html 30 April 2013 live
October – Thomas Telford's Lovat Bridge, the first over the River Beauly, is opened.
November – Thomas Telford's cast iron Craigellachie Bridge over the River Spey is opened.
Thomas Telford's Craighouse pier on Jura is constructed.
Building of the industrial village of Friockheim in Angus is begun.
Gartnavel Royal Hospital is established as the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum.http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/feb2006.html Facts and Observations on the Sanitary State of Glasgow Book of the Month February 2006 Sarah Hepworth Glasgow University Library 2013-02-20 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20061229215106/http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/feb2006.html 29 December 2006
Glasgow Medical Society is established.Glasgow Medical Society http://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/Library/Archive-and-Heritage/Archive-Collections/Glasgow-Medical-Society.aspx Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 2013 2013-02-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20140224041233/http://www.rcpsg.ac.uk/Library/Archive-and-Heritage/Archive-Collections/Glasgow-Medical-Society.aspx 24 February 2014 dead dmy-all
Chapel of St Mary's, designed by James Gillespie Graham, opened in Edinburgh, the origin of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Roman Catholic).
St George's Church, Charlotte Square, New Town, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid after Robert Adam, is completed.
William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde, erected.
Mary Brunton's novel Discipline, set in the Highlands, is published.
Ayrshire cattle recognised as a distinct breed by the Highland and Agricultural Society.http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/ayrshire-cattle-heritage-livestock-zeylaf.aspx Ayrshire Cattle: Heritage Livestock Breeds 2016-03-01 Mother Earth News June 2010 Janet Vorwald Dohner
Births
7 January – Robert Nicoll, radical journalist and poet (died 1837)
31 January – Andrew Ramsay, geologist (died 1891)
27 February – Robert Turnbull Macpherson, artist and photographer working in Rome (died 1872)
20 March – John Goodsir, pathologist (died 1867)
28 March – John Thomas Rochead, architect (died 1878)
10 April – Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, judge and politician (died 1879)
7 May – George Heriot Swanston, map engraver
21 June – Samuel Halkett, librarian (died 1871)
8 July – Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, banker, Liberal politician and evangelical clergyman (died 1887)
26 July – John Arnott, entrepreneur in Ireland (died 1898 in Ireland)
27 September – John Burnet, architect (died 1901)
20 December – William McGill, physician and Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario) (died 1883 in Canada)
Deaths
3 January – James Townsend Oswald, Member of Parliament (born 1748)
28 January – William Dalrymple, moderator of the Church of Scotland (born 1723)
15 June – Robert Findlay, minister (born 1721)
8 July – John Chisholm, bishop of the Roman Catholic church (born 1752)
3 November – William Richardson, classicist and literary scholar (born 1743)
John Adams, educational writer born 1750?)
Alexander Cummings, inventor (born 1733)
William Kerr, gardener and botanist (died in Ceylon)
Thomas Smith, lighting engineer (born 1752)
See also
1814 in Ireland
References
Scotland
Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland
Category:1810s in Scotland
Scotland