1836 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1836 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — John Murray
 - Solicitor General for Scotland — John Cunninghame
 
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Granton
 - Lord Justice General — The Duke of Montrose until 30 December
 - Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Boyle
 
Events
- 17 May — Arbroath and Forfar Railway authorised.
 - 19 May — Dundee and Arbroath Railway authorised.
 - June — 17 miniature coffins of unknown provenance are found in a cave on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.[1]
 - 1 July — North of Scotland Bank (a constituent of Clydesdale Bank) established in Aberdeen[2] by Alexander Anderson and others.
 - 16 July — The brig Mariner leaves Loch Eriboll on the north coast for Cape Breton Island and Quebec in British North America with 154 emigrants, mostly from the nearby Reay district.[3]
 - 30 July — Savings Bank of Glasgow established.[3]
 - 7 August — St Andrew's Cathedral, Dundee (Roman Catholic) opened.
 - 13 August — Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway authorised.
 - Botanical Society of Scotland established as the Botanical Society of Edinburgh.
 - Glasgow and Ship Bank established by merger of the Glasgow Banking Company and the Ship Bank.[4]
 - Robert Napier launches the paddle sloop Berenice for the East India Company, the first steam warship built in Scotland, the (wooden) hull being subscontracted to John Wood of Port Glasgow.[5]
 - Construction of Granton harbour begun
 - Construction of modern Inverness Castle.
 - Former windmill at Maxwelltown opens as converted into an astronomical observatory and the world's oldest working camera obscura, basis of the modern-day Dumfries Museum.
 - Wellington School, Ayr, established for "young ladies of quality" by Mrs Gross.
 - John MacCulloch's geological map of Scotland is published posthumously.
 
Births
- 13 January — Alexander Whyte, minister of the Free Church of Scotland and theologian (died 1921)
 - 12 February — John Gerard Anderson, educationalist in Queensland (died 1911 in Australia)
 - 21 February — Alexander Dickson, botanist (died 1887)
 - 18 March — James Laidlaw Maxwell, Presbyterian missionary in Taiwan (died 1921)
 - 31 March — William Dingwall Fordyce, Liberal politician (died 1875)
 - 5 April — John Scott, botanist (died 1880)
 - 24 May — William Mortimer Clark, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1915)
 - 9 June — Thomas McCall Anderson, physician (died 1908)
 - 26 June — Aeneas Chisholm (Bishop of Aberdeen), Roman Catholic priest (died 1918)
 - 11 August — Hugh Gilzean-Reid, journalist and Liberal politician (died 1911 in London)
 - 7 September — Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1908 in 10 Downing Street, London)
 - 23 September — Samuel Chisholm, Liberal politician and Lord Provost of Glasgow (died 1923)
 - 28 October — James Edward Tierney Aitchison, surgeon and botanist (died 1898)
 - 16 November — David Binning Monro, classical scholar (died 1905)
 - 4 December (probable date) - Duncan MacGregor Crerar, poet (died 1916)
 - John Gregorson Campbell, minister of the church and folklorist (died 1891)
 - William Baxter Collier Fyfe, genre and portrait painter (died 1882 in London)
 - Jessie Seymour Irvine, psalmist (died 1887)
 - William Angus Knight, philosopher and literary scholar (died 1916)
 - John Rhind, architect (died 1889)
 - Andrew Strath, golfer (died 1868)
 
Deaths
- 15 February — John Gillies, Historiographer Royal for Scotland (born 1747)
 - 24 February — Henry Liston, minister of the church and inventor (born 1771)
 - 4 April — John Grieve, poet (born 1781)
 - 23 June — James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (born 1773; died in London)
 - August — Sir John Hope, British Army officer (born 1765)
 - 21 October — Donald Gregory, antiquarian (born 1803)
 - 26 November — John Loudon McAdam, civil engineer and road-builder (born 1756)
 - John Heaviside Clark, artist (born c.1771)
 
The Arts
- Painter David Wilkie is granted a knighthood.
 - 5 March — George Brodie appointed Historiographer Royal
 
See also
References
- ↑ "Arthur's Seat coffins". National Museums Scotland. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
 - ↑ "Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
 - 1 2 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
 - ↑ "Glasgow and Ship Bank (1836–1843)". Lloyds Banking Group. Retrieved 2014-07-08.
 - ↑ "Berenice". The Clyde Built Ships. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
 
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