1852 in Scotland
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Events from 1852 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 7–31 July - United Kingdom general election results in Conservative Party defeat in Scotland but victory across the UK as a whole.
- 1 October - Patent Law Amendment Act comes into effect, merging the English, Scottish and Irish patent systems.
- 28 December - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a Whig-Peelite coalition.[1]
- Kelvingrove Park laid out as West End Park in Glasgow.
- New lighthouse built on North Ronaldsay (engineer: Alan Stevenson).
- Two boatloads of emigrants leave the island of Raasay for Australia.
- Kirkcaldy High School established as Kirkcaldy Burgh School.
- The School of Arts of Edinburgh, predecessor of Heriot-Watt University, changes its name to the Watt Institution and School of Arts.
Births
- 24 May - R. B. Cunninghame Graham, radical socialist politician and writer (died 1936)
- 11 September - James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape, businessman and colonial administrator in India (died 1932)
- 2 October - William Ramsay, chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (died 1916)
- John Kerr, businessman and politician
Deaths
- 5 May - William Henry Murray, actor-manager (born 1790 in England)
- 2 July - Thomas Thomson, chemist (born 1773)
- 22 July - John Smith, architect (born 1781)
- 25 July - Thomas Grainger, civil engineer and surveyor (born 1794)[2]
- 4 September - William MacGillivray, naturalist (born 1796)
See also
References
- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 272–273. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ↑ Scottish Architects www.scottisharchitects.org.uk, accessed 29 June 2013. Archived 2013-07-02.
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