1850 in Scotland
1850 in Scotland |
Years |
1848 | 1849 | 1850 | 1851 | 1852 |
Events from 1850 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 18 June - The paddle steamer Orion sinks off Portpatrick[1] through the negligence of her master with the loss of 50 lives.
- 17 October - James Young patents a method of distilling paraffin from coal, laying the foundations for the Scottish paraffin industry.
- Remodelling of Dunrobin Castle completed.
- Skara Brae revealed by weather.
Births
- 4 February - Thomas Lomar Gray, seismologist (died 1908 in the United States)
- 30 April - George Gibb, transport administrator (died 1925 in London)
- 12 May - Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, jurist, landowner, industrialist and Unionist politician (died 1934 in London)
- 13 August - Peter Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (died 1918)
- 13 November - Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer (died 1894 in Samoa)
- 11 December - Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, married into European nobility (died 1922 in Budapest)
Deaths
- 5 June - Thomas Brown, architect (born 1781)
- 18 June - John Burns, surgeon (born 1775) (in PS Orion disaster)
- 12 July - Robert Stevenson, civil engineer noted for lighthouses (born 1772)[2]
- 3 December - John Gibb, civil engineer and contractor (born 1776)
- Approximate date - Walter Sutherland, last native speaker of the Norn language on Unst
See also
References
- ↑ Kennedy, John (2007). The History of Steam Navigation. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4304-8330-4.
- ↑ "Robert Stevenson". Northern Lighthouse Board. 2009. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
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