1804 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1804 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]- Lord Advocate – Charles Hope; then Sir James Montgomery, Bt
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair
Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
- Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Eskgrove, then Lord Granton
Events
[edit]- January – HMS York (1796) founders on patrol off Scotland, apparently striking the Inchcape rock, with the loss of all 491 on board.[1]
- 5 April – High Possil meteorite, the first recorded meteorite to fall in Scotland in modern times, falls at Possil.[2]
- 19 August – St Peter's Church, Aberdeen, is dedicated as the city's first purpose-built post-Reformation Roman Catholic church.
- 14 September – lighthouse on Inchkeith, designed by Thomas Smith and Robert Stevenson, is first illuminated.[3]
- The Glasgow Herald is first published under this title.[4]
- Galashiels Baptist Church is established as an independent Baptist congregation.[5]
Births
[edit]- 7 January – George Deas, judge (died 1887)
- 13 January – John Pringle Nichol, scientist (died 1859)
- 1 March – John Henderson, ecclesiastical architect (died 1862)
- 20 June – John Forrest, military doctor (died 1865 in England)
- 15 July – Jane Stirling, pianist, student of Chopin (died 1859)
- 18 September – John Steell, sculptor (died 1891)
- 3 November – Charles Baillie, Lord Jerviswoode, judge (died 1879)
- Robert Davidson, inventor (died 1894)
- Alexander McKay, heavyweight bare-knuckle boxer (died of injury sustained in fight 1830 in England)
- James Mackay, politician in New Zealand (died 1875 in New Zealand)
- George Thompson, shipowner and politician (died 1895)
Deaths
[edit]- 11 January – James Tytler, editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1745; died in the United States)
- 26 July – Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet, politician (born c.1729)
- 4 August – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, admiral (born 1731; died just south of the border en route to Edinburgh)
- 23 October – David Rae, Lord Eskgrove, judge (born 1724)
The arts
[edit]- John Galt's poem The Battle of Largs is published anonymously, the author's first published work.[6]
- David Wilkie paints Pitlessie Fair and William Chalmers-Bethune, his wife Isabella Morison and their Daughter Isabella.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hepper, David J. (1994). British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3.
- ^ Faithfull, John (2005). "The High Possil Meteorite". Glasgow: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ "Inchkeith". Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ Terry, Stephen (2011). "Chapter 2". Glasgow Almanac: An A–Z of the City and Its People. Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 9781903238639.
- ^ "The History of Galashiels Baptist Church: 1782-1900". Galashiels Baptist Church. Archived from the original on 29 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.