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1841 in Scotland
Events from the year
1841 in
Scotland
.
Incumbents
Law officers
Lord Advocate
âÂÂ
Andrew Rutherfurd
until September; then
Sir William Rae, Bt
Solicitor General for Scotland
âÂÂ
Thomas Maitland
; then
Duncan McNeill
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
âÂÂ
Lord Granton
until 20 July; then from 7 October
Lord Boyle
Lord Justice Clerk
âÂÂ
Lord Boyle
, then
Lord Hope
Events
29 March
â the
Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
is opened between
Glasgow Bridge Street railway station
and
Greenock
.
14 May
â Irish
navvies
Dennis Doolan and Patrick Redding are
hanged
at
Crosshill
,
Bishopbriggs
(near Glasgow and site of the later
Cadder Yard
), the location at which they participated in the murder of ganger John Green on the works of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
on 10 December 1840.
28 May
â seven church ministers of the Presbytery of Strathbogie are removed from their posts by the General assembly of the Church of Scotland for obeying civil rather than ecclesiastical law.
6 June
âÂÂ
United Kingdom Census
taken across Scotland.
September âÂÂ
Townhill waggonway
opened in Fife.
Autumn âÂÂ
Chartist
leader
Feargus O'Connor
tours Scotland.
The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opens
Cowlairs railway works
in the
Springburn
district of Glasgow.
Births
8 January
âÂÂ
Alexander Stuart Murray
, archaeologist (died
1904
)
Murray Hall
, born Mary Anderson, bail bondsman and politician in the United States (died
1901
)
Deaths
1 June
âÂÂ
David Wilkie
, painter (born
1785
)
The arts
January âÂÂ
Franz Liszt
visits Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Publication of
Vocal Melodies of Scotland
including "
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
".
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
1841 in Ireland
References