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List of events
Events from the year 1837 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
1 January –
Hercules Linton , surveyor, designer, shipbuilder and antiquarian; designer of the
Cutty Sark (died
1900 )
7 January –
James Key Caird , jute manufacturer and philanthropist (died
1916 )
January –
Daniel Cottier , artist and designer (died
1891 )
7 February –
James Murray ,
lexicographer (died 1915 in Oxford)
16 February –
Asher Asher ,
physician and promoter of Jewish causes (died 1889 in London)
24 March –
George Henry Mackenzie , chess master (died
1891 in the United States )
25 March –
Francis Farquharson , soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross (died 1875 in England)
27 March –
John MacWhirter , landscape painter (died 1911 in London)
3 May – Rev. Dr.
Robert Blair , Presbyterian minister and Gaelic scholar (died 1907)
14 June –
John Thomson , pioneering photographer, geographer and traveller (died 1921)
17 June –
Alexander Skene ,
gynaecologist (died
1900 in the United States )
4 July –
Agnes McLaren , physician (died 1913 in France)
8 July –
Donald Dinnie ,
Highland games
strongman (died
1916 )
11 July –
John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross , lawyer and
Liberal politician (died
1905 )
10 November –
William Bain Scarth , businessman and politician in Canada (died
1902 in Canada )
13 November –
John McClure , admiral in the
Imperial Chinese Navy (died
1920 )
2 December –
Joseph Bell , surgeon, an inspiration for
Sherlock Holmes (died
1911 )
17 December –
William Harkness ,
astronomer (died
1903 in the United States )
29 December –
Francis Carmichael Bruce , businessman and politician in Ontario (died
1928 in Canada )
date unknown –
Deaths
4 or
11 January –
John MacKenzie , physician and friend of Robert Burns
16 January –
Robert Macnish , surgeon, physician, philosopher and writer (born
1802 )
18 January –
James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn , army officer, politician and freemason (born 1762 in England)
19 February – Sir
Hugh Cleghorn , first colonial secretary to
Ceylon (born
1752 )
8 May –
Robert Heriot Barclay , commander in the
Royal Navy (born
1786 )
1 August –
Walter Geikie , painter (born
1795 )
17 August –
John Donald Carrick , journalist (born
1787 )
24 August –
George Watson , portrait painter (born
1767 )
15 September –
William Ritchie , physicist (born
c. 1790 )
22 October – Sir
David Erskine , dramatist and antiquary (born
1772 )
3 December –
Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry , peer (born
1777 ) (Barony of Solway becomes extinct)
7 December –
Robert Nicoll , radical journalist and poet (born
1814 )
See also
References
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