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Events from the year 1864 in Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]Law officers
[edit]Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond
Events
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^ "Chalmers Hospital - Banff". NHS Grampian. 15 November 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^ Maxwell, J. Clerk (1865). "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 155. London: 459–512. doi:10.1098/rstl.1865.0008. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ^ The National Bank of Scotland 1825-1925. 1925.
- ^ Hussey, Christopher (1931). The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer. Country Life.