1861 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1861 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Edward Maitland

Judiciary

• Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond

Events

• 27 February – ironclad warship HMS Black Prince is launched from Robert Napier's yard at Govan on the River Clyde
  .
• 11 March – the Portpatrick Railway opens to Stranraer Town railway station, providing a connection from Dumfries
  .
• June – first modern excavation of the Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave of Maeshowe on Orkney.^[1]
• Tom Morris, Sr. wins the second Open Championship.^[2]
• Prince Albert.^[3]
• 25 November – a tenement collapses in the Old Town, Edinburgh
  killing 35 with 15 survivors.
• Edinburgh Co-operative Building Company begin construction of
  Stockbridge Colonies, pioneering low-cost flats for artisans.^[4]
• One O'Clock Gun first fired from Edinburgh Castle.
• Edinburgh and Glasgow Bible Societies merged to form the National Bible Society of Scotland.
• White Horse whisky first produced by James Logan Mackie of Edinburgh.^[5]

Births

• 11 April – Thomas Jaffrey, actuary (died 1953
  )
• 17 June – Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (died 1942)^[6]
• Field Marshal during World War I (died 1928
  )
• 9 July – William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (died 1958
  )
• 12 October – Agnes Jekyll
  , née Graham, artist, writer on domestic matters and philanthropist (died 1937 in England)
• 24 December – John Macdonald, sportsman and physician (died 1938
  )

• John Bartholomew, Sr., cartographer (born 1805
  )
• 4 October – Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton
  (born 1812 in Sicily)
• 13 November – John Forbes, physician to Queen Victoria (1841–1861) (born 1787
  )

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1861 in Ireland

References