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1853 in Scotland
Events from the year
1853 in Scotland
.
Incumbents
Law officers
Lord Advocate
âÂÂ
James Moncreiff
Solicitor General for Scotland
âÂÂ
Charles Neaves
; then
Robert Handyside
; then
James Craufurd
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session
and
Lord Justice General
âÂÂ
Lord Colonsay
Lord Justice Clerk
âÂÂ
Lord Glencorse
Events
12 August
â Licensing (Scotland)
Act
(known after its sponsor as the '
Forbes Mackenzie
Act') regulates the supply of intoxicating beverages.
28 September
â emigrant ship
Annie Jane
sinks in heavy seas off
Vatersay
, with the loss of 350 lives.
Highland Clearances
in
Skye
and
Raasay
.
National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights
formed.
Second cholera pandemic
again revives in Scotland.
Time ball
installed on
Nelson Monument, Edinburgh
.
Corn exchange
built in
Dalkeith
.
John Hill Burton
publishes his
History of Scotland from the Revolution to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection
.
Births
12 January
âÂÂ
James MacLaren
, architect in the "
Arts and Crafts
" style (died
1890
)
4 March
âÂÂ
Hector MacDonald
, soldier (suicide 1903 in Paris)
31 March
âÂÂ
Isaac Bayley Balfour
, botanist (died
1922
)
10 June
âÂÂ
Alexander Watson Hutton
, "father of
football in Argentina
" (died 1936 in Buenos Aires)
17 July
âÂÂ
William Gunion Rutherford
, classical scholar (died 1907 in England)
Deaths
2 January
âÂÂ
William Collins
, publisher (born
1789
)
30 July
âÂÂ
John Struthers
, poet (born
1776
)
28 September
âÂÂ
Adam Anderson, Lord Anderson
, judge (born c.1797)
21 October
âÂÂ
Robert Gordon
, minister of religion and scientist (born
1786
)
The arts
Summer âÂÂ
John Everett Millais
stays at
Brig o' Turk
in
Glen Finglas
with
John Ruskin
and his wife
Effie
to begin painting
John Ruskin
.
Alexander Smith
's 'A Life Drama' is published as
Poems
.
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
1853 in Ireland
References