1812 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1812 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
- Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle
Events
- concludes.
- March – meeting in Edinburgh to discuss formation of the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society.
- waggonway to carry coal from Kilmarnock to Troon harbour.[1] On 27 June the horse-drawn passenger coach Caledonia began running over the line between Troon and Gargieston, near Kilmarnock.[2]
- 12 July (
- August – Henry Bell's PS Comet begins a passenger service on the River Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe.[4]
- November – first bridge at Bonar Bridge completed in cast iron to the design of Thomas Telford.
- Ongoing – Highland Clearances.
- Nelson's Tower completed in Forres as a monument to Lord Nelson.[5]
- Brackla distillery built by Captain William Fraser of Brackla House on the estate of Cawdor Castle.
- Glasgow Bible Society established.
- Gaelic chapel opens in London.
Births
- 3 February – William Fraser Tolmie, scientist and politician in Canada (died 1886 in Canada)
- in Tasmania)
- 26 March (probable date) – Charles Mackay, writer (died 1889)
- 4 April – George Grub, church historian (died 1892)
- 27 May – Robert Stirling Newall, engineer and astronomer (died 1889)
- Norman Macleod, Church of Scotland minister (died 1872)
- 2 September – Kirkpatrick Macmillan, inventor of the bicycle (died 1878)
- 23 December – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (died 1904)
Deaths
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- )
The arts
- William Tennant's ottava rima mock-heroic poem Anster Fair is published, the first use of this Italian style in Britain.[6]
See also
References
- ISBN 0-85976-088-X.
- ^ Air Advertiser [sic.] advertisement dated 25 June 1812.
- ^ Booker, Ronnie Michael (2010). Orange Alba: The Civil Religion of Loyalism in the Southwestern Lowlands of Scotland since 1798. Knoxville: University of Tennessee. pp. 45–6. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ISBN 1-869850-00-9.
- ^ "Forres, Cluny Hills, Nelson's Monument". Canmore. Historic Environment Scotland. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ The Harmsworth Encyclopedia. 1905.