1843 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1843 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Duncan McNeill
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Adam Anderson

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope

Events

• 18 May – the Disruption of the Church of Scotland takes place.^[1] Construction of the Triple Kirks in Aberdeen begins.
• 3 June – first burial in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.
• 29 June – Robert Napier launches his first iron ship, the paddle steamer Vanguard, from his new yard at Govan on the River Clyde.^[2]
• 1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens in Glasgow.
• 13 August – Sir William Dunbar, priest of St. Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, is excommunicated from the Scottish Episcopal Church for refusing to administer or receive the sacrament in accordance with the church's ritual.
• Dingwall becomes the county town of Ross and Cromarty.
• The last laird of Raasay, John Macleod, emigrates to Tasmania having sold the Scottish island to George Rainy to help clear his debts.
• The Ordnance Survey commences its first published mapping of Scotland with a survey of Wigtownshire.^[3]
• The Glenmorangie distillery is established in Tain by William Matheson.
• Glenburn Hydro is opened in Rothesay, Bute, the first hydropathic establishment in Scotland.
• First paddle steamer on Loch Katrine, Gypsy.
• Little Ross lighthouse completed.
• Angus MacKay becomes first Piper to the Sovereign.
• Marion Kirkland Reid's feminist tract A Plea for Woman is published in Edinburgh.

Births

• 12 June – David Gill, astronomer known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography, and for geodesy (died 1914)
• 5 August – James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer (died 1927)
• 21 August – Thomas Hill Jamieson, librarian (died 1876)

Deaths

• 25 July – Charles Macintosh, chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics after whom the Mackintosh raincoat is named (born 1766)^[4]
• 5 December – David Hamilton, architect (born 1768)

The arts

• Hill & Adamson form Scotland's first photographic studio, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1843 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Web site: Victorian Britain. BBC. 2013-07-30.
2. Web site: PS Vanguard. Clydebuilt database. https://web.archive.org/web/20160316012446/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=8183. dead. 2016-03-16. 2016-03-15.
3. Web site: Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882: A Scottish paper landscape. Christopher. Fleet. Charles W. J.. Withers. National Library of Scotland. 2014-09-05.
4. Book: Day . Lance . McNeil . Ian . Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology . 11 September 2002 . Routledge . 978-1-134-65019-4 . 786 . en.