1849 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1849 in Scotland.

Incumbents

19 February – Theatre Royal disaster: 65 people, almost all under the age of 20, are crushed to death in a panic caused by a small fire in the Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow.^[1]
16 July – Portpatrick to Donaghadee packet service withdrawn.^[2]
5 October – after three years construction, the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse oil light is first exhibited.^[3]
1 November – Buchanan Street railway station opened in Glasgow by the Caledonian Railway.
Pollokshields is established as a Glasgow southside suburb by the Stirling-Maxwell family and set out or 'feued' by Edinburgh architect David Rhind.
The drapers' store of Arthur & Fraser, predecessor of the House of Fraser, is established in Glasgow by Hugh Fraser and James Arthur.^[4]
The construction of Cox Brothers' Camperdown Works in Lochee begins.^[5]

27 May – Catherine Cranston, tearoom proprietor (died 1934)^[6]
24 September – Cathcart William Methven, harbour engineer and painter (died 1925 in South Africa)
23 October – James Reid, physician (died 1923)
29 December – William Cunningham, economist and economic historian (died 1919)

Web site: The Theatre Royal, Dunlop Street, Glasgow. Arthur Lloyd.co.uk: The Music Hall and Theatre History Site. 2021-05-21.
Book: Ayres, George. History of the Mail Routes to Ireland until 1850. 22.
http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/ardnamurchan.htm History
Web site: House of Fraser archive project.
Web site: Collection MS 6 - Cox Brothers Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, and Cox Family Papers . Archive Services Catalogue . University of Dundee. 2023-12-13.
Web site: Kate Cranston . BBC Bitesize . 23 July 2024.