1864 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1864 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff
• Solicitor General for Scotland – George Young

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond

Events

• 21 June – last public execution in Edinburgh – George Bryce, the Ratho murderer.^[1]
• 19 July – Chalmers Hospital opened in Banff, Aberdeenshire.^[2]
• 2 September – the first Ottoman ironclad Osmaniye is launched by Robert Napier and Sons on the River Clyde.
• 8 December – James Clerk Maxwell presents his paper A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field to the Royal Society, treating light as an electromagnetic wave.^[3]
• Hall, Russell & Company established as marine engineers in Aberdeen.
• The National Bank of Scotland becomes the first Scottish bank to open an office in London.^[4]
• Historian John Hill Burton publishes The Scot Abroad.

Births

• 2 January – James Caird, shipowner (died 1954 in England)
• 17 January – David Torrence, film actor (died 1951)
• 5 February – Marion Gilchrist, medical doctor (died 1952)
• 6 February – John Henry Mackay, anarchist writer (died 1933 in Germany)
• 14 February – James Burns, shipowner (died 1919)
• 8 March – James Craig Annan, photographer (died 1946)
• 28 May – Jessie Newbery, née Rowat, embroiderer (died 1948 in England)
• 10 June – Ninian Comper, Gothic Revival architect (died 1960 in England)
• 1 October – Alexander Grant, biscuit manufacturer (died 1937)
• 7 October – Harrington Mann, painter (died 1937 in the United States)
• 31 October – Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1945 in England)
• 4 November – Robert Lorimer, architect (died 1929)^[5]
• 13 December – John Quinton Pringle, painter (died 1925)

Deaths

• 6 January – John Clements Wickham, explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator (born 1798)
• 1 June – Sir John Watson Gordon, portrait painter (born 1788)
• 6 August – Catherine Sinclair, novelist and children's writer (born 1800)
• 1 October – Ignatius Spencer, English priest (born 1799)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1864 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of Edinburgh. Visions of Scotland. 2014-05-12. 14 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm. dead.
2. Web site: Chalmers Hospital - Banff. NHS Grampian. 2013-11-15. 2014-05-12.
3. 10.1098/rstl.1865.0008. Maxwell. J. Clerk. A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field. PDF. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London. 155. 459–512. 1865. 2013-06-17.
4. Book: The National Bank of Scotland 1825-1925. 1925.
5. Book: Hussey, Christopher. Christopher Hussey (historian). The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer. Country Life. 1931.