1773 in Scotland
1773 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1773 in Scotland.
Contents
1 Incumbents
1.1 Law officers
1.2 Judiciary
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 See also
6 References
Incumbents[edit]
Monarch – George III
Law officers[edit]
Lord Advocate – James Montgomery
Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas
Judiciary[edit]
Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events[edit]
Hector (replica)
- Mid-July – the emigrant ship Hector sets out from Scotland carrying emigrants mainly escaping the Highland Clearances around Loch Broom for Pictou, Nova Scotia, where they arrive on 15 September.[1]
- 6 August – Samuel Johnson sets out for Scotland[2] where on 14 August he meets James Boswell in Edinburgh for their tour to the Hebrides.[3] On 12 September they are entertained at Kingsburgh, Skye, by Allan and Flora MacDonald.[1]
Penny Post introduced in Edinburgh.[4]
- Scottish judge James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, begins publication of Of the Origin and Progress of Language, a contribution to evolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment.
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, publishes Remarks on the History of Scotland.
Births[edit]
- 6 April – James Mill, historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (died 1836 in London)
- 12 April – Thomas Thomson, chemist and mineralogist (died 1852)
- 23 July – Thomas Brisbane, astronomer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1860)
- 15 September – Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry, clan chief (died 1828)
- 23 October – Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (died 1850)
- 21 December – Robert Brown, botanist and palaeobotanist (died 1858 in London)
Deaths[edit]
- 9 February – John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (born 1724)
See also[edit]
- Timeline of Scottish history
References[edit]
^ ab "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Tisdall, Nigel (2009-06-03). "Dr Johnson's Scotland: in the Western Isles". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
^ Boswell, James (1785). The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
^ "Provincial Penny Posts". British Postal Museum & Archive. Archived from the original on 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
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