1802 in Scotland
1802 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1802 in Scotland.
Contents
1 Incumbents
1.1 Law officers
1.2 Judiciary
2 Events
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 The arts
6 See also
7 References
Incumbents[edit]
Monarch – George III
Law officers[edit]
Lord Advocate – Charles Hope
Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair
Judiciary[edit]
Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Eskgrove
Events[edit]
- January – Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen admits its first residents.
2 October – first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson.
10 October – the reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published by Archibald Constable.- November – the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is established as the Glasgow Philosophical Society "for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences".[1]
- The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society.[2]
John Playfair publishes Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth in Edinburgh, popularising James Hutton's theory of geology.
John Home publishes History of the Rebellion of 1745.
Malcolm Laing publishes History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms.
Births[edit]
1 April – William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London)
20 May – David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
10 July – Robert Chambers, publisher, geologist and writer (died 1871)
16 July – Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887)
20 August – Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868)- 24 August (bapt.) – John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858)
28 August – Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876)
19 September – Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London)
10 October – Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856)
Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia)
Deaths[edit]
21 January – John Moore, physician and writer (born 1729; died in London)
26 February – Alexander Geddes, Roman Catholic theologian and scholar (born 1737; died in London)
John Mackay, botanist (born 1772)
Donald MacNicol, clergyman and writer (born 1735)
The arts[edit]
29 January – Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway.[3]
Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border begins publication anonymously by James Ballantyne in Kelso.[4]
See also[edit]
- 1802 in the United Kingdom
References[edit]
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^ Shaw, A. Batty (July 1968). "The oldest medical societies in Great Britain". Medical History. 12 (3): 232–244. doi:10.1017/s0025727300013272. PMC 1033825. PMID 4875610.
^ Mackay, James (2004). Burns: A Biography of Robert Burns. Darvel: Alloway Publishing. p. 688. ISBN 978-0-907526-85-8.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 354. ISBN 978-0-304-35730-7.
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