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Events from the year 1821 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
15 January –
Sumburgh Head Lighthouse in Shetland, designed by
Robert Stevenson , is first illuminated.
28 April – foundation stone for the Melville Monument in
St Andrew Square, Edinburgh , is laid.
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18 July – thief
David Haggart is hanged in Edinburgh, aged 20, for the murder of a Dumfries tolbooth keeper in 1820, leaving an autobiography, The life of David Haggart , and
phrenologist
George Combe 's Phrenological observations on the cerebral development of David Haggart .
14 August –
Trinity Chain Pier opens at
Trinity, Edinburgh .
16 October – the School of Arts of Edinburgh, a predecessor of
Heriot-Watt University , is established by
Leonard Horner for the education of working men.
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[3]
The
Royal Scottish Society of Arts is founded as The Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts in Scotland by
David Brewster .
The publisher
T&T Clark is established in Edinburgh by Thomas Clark.
William Hooker (botanist) publishes Flora Scotica; or, A description of Scottish plants .
Robert Owen 's Report to the County of Lanark, of a plan for relieving public distress and removing discontent is published in Glasgow.
Births
10 March –
Màiri Mhòr nan Òran , Gaelic poet (died
1898 )
15 March –
William Milligan , theologian (died
1893 )
11 April –
James Campbell Walker , architect (died
1888 )
26 April –
Robert Adamson , pioneer photographer (died
1848 )
16 June –
Old Tom Morris , golfer (died
1908 )
19 June –
George Whyte-Melville , sporting novelist (died hunting 1878 in England)
1 August –
James Gowans , architect (died
1890 )
17 October –
Alexander Gardner , photographer (died
1882 in the United States )
13 December –
Joseph Noel Paton , painter (died
1901 )
29 December –
John Francis Campbell , Celtic folklorist and inventor (died
1885 in France )
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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