1860 in Scotland
1860 in Scotland |
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Events from 1860 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 15 September - King's and Marischal Colleges in Aberdeen merge as the University of Aberdeen.
- 17 October - The first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick, regarded as the first Open (although it is not truly open until the following year when amateurs can participate).[1]
- Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, opens.
- Andrew Stewart sets up the Clyde Tube Works in Glasgow, a predecessor of Stewarts & Lloyds.[2]
- Folklorist John Francis Campbell begins publication of Popular Tales of the West Highlands in Edinburgh.
Births
- 22 March - John George Bartholomew, cartographer (died 1920)
- 15 April - Edward Arthur Walton, painter (died 1922)
- 2 May
- John Scott Haldane, physiologist (died 1936)
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (died 1948)
- 9 May - J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937 in London)
- 30 May - Archibald Thorburn, wildlife painter (died 1935 in Surrey, England)
- 3 July - William Wallace, composer (died 1940)
- 21 November - James Leith Macbeth Bain, religious minister, hymn writer and walker (died 1925)
- James Miller, architect (died 1947)
Deaths
- 27 January - Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales and astronomer (born 1773)
- 25 March - James Braid, surgeon and scientist, often regarded as the first genuine hypnotherapist (born 1795)
- 1 April - William Mure, scholar and politician (born 1799)
- 25 August - William Wilson, poet and publisher (born 1801)
See also
References
- ↑ Prestwick - 1860 www.theopen.com, accessed 22 June 2013. Archived 2013-06-29.
- ↑ Stewarts and Lloyds Limited 1903–1953. p. 6.
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