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Scotland-related events during the year of 1809
Events from the year 1809 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
c. April – the General Association of Operative Weavers is formed.
[1]
May – a construction railway at the site of
Bell Rock Lighthouse is completed.
[2]
August –
Crinan Canal declared "finally complete".
[3]
16 August –
Meikle Ferry disaster : An overloaded ferry crossing the
Dornoch Firth to
Tain market sinks, drowning 99.
[4]
November –
Thomas Telford certifies completion of his
Dunkeld –
Birnam bridge.
[5] His bridges at
Ballater and
Conon Bridge are also completed this year.
11 November – the
North British and Mercantile Insurance company commences business as a
fire insurance office in Edinburgh.
[6]
9 December – the
Dumfries Courier is established as a weekly newspaper in
Annan by Rev. Dr.
Henry Duncan as The Dumfries and Galloway Courier .
[7]
Highland Clearances – first commissioner for clearance of the
Leveson-Gower family estates in Scotland for sheep farming, William Young, is appointed.
The
Tally Toor , a
Martello tower , is erected off
Leith .
[8]
A bridge over the
River Cart is washed away in a flood.
[9]
Blackie and Son , publishers, are established in Glasgow by John Blackie as Blackie, Fullarton and Company.
The
Scottish Bible Society is established as the Edinburgh Bible Society, a missionary organization, by
Christopher Anderson .
The
Caledonian Horticultural Society is established in Edinburgh.
Arthur Edmondston 's A View of the Ancient and Present State of the Zetland Islands is published.
Births
16 February –
John Laing , bibliographer and
Free Church minister (died
1880 )
20 April –
James David Forbes , physicist, glaciologist and seismologist (died 1868 in Bristol)
7 June –
William Forbes Skene , historian (died
1892 )
22 August –
John Hill Burton , historian (died
1881 )
27 August –
John West , pioneer of food canning (died
1888 in the United States )
8 September –
Robert Reid Kalley , physician and Presbyterian missionary to the lusophone countries (died
1888 )
21 October –
John Stenhouse , chemist (died 1880 in London)
24 October –
John Barr , poet (died
1889 in New Zealand )
29 December –
William Ewart Gladstone ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in Liverpool; died
1898 in Wales )
Alexander Allan , locomotive engineer (died 1891 in England)
Archibald Campbell , born Douglas, laird (died
1868 )
Deaths
14 January –
Robert Anstruther , British Army general (born
1768 ; died on active service at Corunna)
16 January –
John Moore , British Army general (born
1761 ; killed in
Battle of Corunna )
24 January –
James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (born
1729 ; died in London)
25 February –
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore , colonial governor (born
1730 ; died in Ramsgate)
10 May –
Andrew Bell , engraver, co-founder of the
Encyclopædia Britannica (born
1726 )
3 August –
Andrew Mackay , mathematician (born
1760 ; died in London)
29 August –
Robert Melvill , British Army general and antiquary (born
1723 )
8 October –
James Elphinston , philologist (born
1721 ; died in London)
18 December –
Alexander Adam , classical scholar (born
1741 )
Sir William Douglas, 1st Baronet , landowner and industrialist
See also
References
^
Timeline of Glasgow history .
^ Taylor, David (April 2007).
"Bell Rock Lighthouse" . Bellrock.org.uk . Archived from
the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2012 .
^ Lindsay, Jean (1968). The Canals of Scotland . Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 124.
ISBN
0-7153-4240-1 .
^
"Disasters" . Society . Am Baile. Archived from
the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014 .
^
"Telford's Bridge" . Dunkeld & Birnam Tourist Association. Archived from
the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014 .
^
"North British and Mercantile Insurance Co Ltd" .
Aviva . Archived from
the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014 .
^ Duncan, George John C. (1848). Memoir of the Rev. Henry Duncan, D.D., Minister of Ruthwell, Founder of Savings Banks, Author of Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons, &c., &c . Edinburgh; London: W. Oliphant Hamilton, Adams. p. 77.
^
"The Martello Tower" . History of Leith . Archived from
the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 15 August 2014 .
^
"White Cart Bridge" . Secret Scotland . 30 March 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2014 .
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