1860 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1860 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General — Lord Colonsay
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Glenalmond
Events
- 15 September — King's and Marischal Colleges in Aberdeen merge as the University of Aberdeen.
- October — The Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations the first Thurso life-boat at Scrabster.
- 17 October — The first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick, regarded as the first Open (although it is not truly open until the following year when amateurs can participate).[1]
- 21 December — St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen (Roman Catholic) is dedicated.[2]
- Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, opens.
- Andrew Stewart sets up the Clyde Tube Works in Glasgow, a predecessor of Stewarts & Lloyds.[3]
- Folklorist John Francis Campbell begins publication of Popular Tales of the West Highlands in Edinburgh.
Births
- 22 March — John George Bartholomew, cartographer (died 1920)
- 15 April — Edward Arthur Walton, painter (died 1922)
- 2 May —
- John Scott Haldane, physiologist (died 1936)
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (died 1948)
- 9 May — J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937 in London)
- 30 May — Archibald Thorburn, wildlife painter (died 1935 in Surrey, England)
- 3 July — William Wallace, composer (died 1940)
- 19 August — John Kane, naïve painter (died 1934 in the United States)
- 21 November — James Leith Macbeth Bain, religious minister, hymn writer and walker (died 1925)
- James Miller, architect (died 1947)
Deaths
- 27 January — Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales and astronomer (born 1773)
- 25 March — James Braid, surgeon and scientist, often regarded as the first genuine hypnotherapist (born 1795)
- 1 April — William Mure, scholar and politician (born 1799)
- 25 August — William Wilson, poet and publisher (born 1801)
- James Barr, composer (born 1779)
See also
References
- ^ "Prestwick - 1860". www.theopen.com. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ "A Brief History". Aberdeen: St Mary's Cathedral. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ^ Stewarts and Lloyds Limited 1903–1953. p. 6.