1804 in Scotland
1804 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1804 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; then Sir James Montgomery, Bt
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, then Lord Granton
Events[edit]
5 April – High Possil meteorite, the first recorded meteorite to fall in Scotland in modern times, falls at Possil.[1]
19 August – St Peter's Church, Aberdeen, is dedicated as the city's first purpose-built post-Reformation Roman Catholic church.
14 September – lighthouse on Inchkeith, designed by Thomas Smith and Robert Stevenson, is first illuminated.[2]
The Glasgow Herald is first published under this title.[3]
Galashiels Baptist Church is established as an independent Baptist congregation.[4]
Births[edit]
7 January – George Deas, judge (died 1887)
13 January – John Pringle Nichol, scientist (died 1859)
1 March – John Henderson, ecclesiastical architect (died 1862)
20 June – John Forrest, military doctor (died 1865 in England)
15 July – Jane Stirling, pianist, student of Chopin (died 1859)
18 September – John Steell, sculptor (died 1891)
3 November – Charles Baillie, Lord Jerviswoode, judge (died 1879)
Robert Davidson, inventor (died 1894)
Alexander McKay, heavyweight bare-knuckle boxer (died of injury sustained in fight 1830 in England)
James Mackay, politician in New Zealand (died 1875 in New Zealand)
George Thompson, shipowner and politician (died 1895)
Deaths[edit]
11 January – James Tytler, editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1745; died in the United States)
26 July – Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet, politician (born c.1729)
4 August – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, admiral (born 1731; died just south of the border en route to Edinburgh)
23 October – David Rae, Lord Eskgrove, judge (born 1724)
The arts[edit]
John Galt's poem The Battle of Largs is published anonymously, the author's first published work.[5]
David Wilkie paints Pitlessie Fair and William Chalmers-Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and their Daughter Isabella.
See also[edit]
- 1804 in the United Kingdom
References[edit]
^ Faithfull, John (2005). "The High Possil Meteorite". Glasgow: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. Retrieved 2014-08-22..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}
^ "Inchkeith". Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Retrieved 2014-11-20.
^ Terry, Stephen (2011). "Chapter 2". Glasgow Almanac: An A–Z of the City and Its People. Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 9781903238639.
^ "The History of Galashiels Baptist Church: 1782-1900". Galashiels Baptist Church. Archived from the original on 29 August 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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