1865 in Scotland

Events from the year 1865 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

• 16 January – new fishing harbour at St Monans completed.
• 3 March – Thomas Sutherland founds the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
• 28 July – English general practitioner Edward William Pritchard becomes the last person publicly hanged in Glasgow (on Glasgow Green), for poisoning his wife and mother-in-law in the city.
• 6 October – the iron cargo/passenger steamer Agamemnon is launched by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock. Equipped with an efficient compound steam engine, she pioneers trade by steam to the Far East.
• 30–31 December – 24 vessels are wrecked around the Dubh Artach reef in a storm.
• 165 emigrants leave the island of Raasay for Australia.
• Joseph Lister begins to experiment with antiseptic surgery in Glasgow using carbolic acid.
• Fourth cholera pandemic reaches Scotland.
• James Clerk Maxwell (who this year moves back to the family home at Glenlair House) publishes A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field.
• Amhuinnsuidhe Castle on Harris is built for Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore by David Bryce.

Births

• 28 March – Mary Findlater, novelist (died 1963)
• 27 April – Archibald Leitch, architect, most famous for his work designing stadia throughout the British Isles (died 1939)
• 28 June – David Young Cameron, painter (died 1945)
• 17 October – Dugald Cowan, educationalist and Liberal politician (died 1933)
• 6 November – William Boog Leishman, military physician (died 1926)
• William Gillies, nationalist (died 1932)

Deaths

• 18 January – James Beaumont Neilson, ironmaster (born 1792)
• 5 June – John Richardson, Royal Navy surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer (born 1787)
• 4 August – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, poet, humorist and lawyer (born 1813)
• 19 October – Robert Crichton Wyllie, physician, businessman and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hawaii (born 1798)
• 23 December – Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (born 1807)

The arts

• Thomas Faed's painting ' is first exhibited
• Gaelic poet William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe)'s collection Duain agus Orain is published in Glasgow
• George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen is published

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1865 in Ireland

References