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List of events
Events from the year 1838 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
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13 January –
William Miller,
Free Church missionary and educationalist (died
1923)
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29 January –
David Gray, poet (died
1861)
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22 February –
John Joseph Jolly Kyle,
chemist in Argentina (died 1922 in
Buenos Aires)
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14 March –
Robert Flint,
Theologian and
philosopher (died
1910)
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25 March –
William Wedderburn, civil servant in India (died 1918 in England)
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26 March –
Alexander Crum Brown, organic chemist (died
1922)
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21 April –
John Muir, conservationist (died
1914 in the United States)
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17 May –
William Esson, mathematician (died 1916 in England)
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6 June –
Thomas Blake Glover, merchant (died 1911 in Japan)
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6 July –
Thomas John MacLagan, doctor and pharmacologist (died 1903)
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7 July –
Thomas Davidson, poet (died 1870)
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22 July –
John McLagan, newspaper publisher (died
1901 in Canada)
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6 August –
Walter Shirlaw, artist in the United States (died 1909 in Spain)
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3 September –
David Bowman, botanist (died 1868 in
Colombia)
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4 September –
William Gibson Sloan,
Plymouth Brethren evangelist (died 1914 in the
Faroe Islands)
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6 September –
George Ashdown Audsley, architect, artist, illustrator, writer, decorator and
pipe organ designer (died
1925 in the United States)
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9 September –
Thomas Barker, mathematician (died 1907 in England)
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10 October –
William M'Intosh, physician and marine zoologist (died 1931)
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16 October –
John Smart, landscape painter (died
1899)
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2 November –
James Dykes Campbell, merchant and writer (died 1895)
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4 November –
Andrew Martin Fairbairn, theologian (died 1912 in England)
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18 November –
William Keith, landscape painter in California (died
1911 in the United States)
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John Firth, Orcadian folklorist (died 1922)
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Alexander Mackenzie, historian, author, magazine editor and politician (died
1898)
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Samuel McGaw recipient of the
Victoria Cross, during the
First Ashanti Expedition (died in 1878)
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Bruce James Talbert, interior designer (died 1881 in England)
Deaths
The arts
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31 August – scene painter
David Roberts sets sail for
Egypt to produce a series of drawings of the region for use as the basis for paintings and
chromolithographs.
- November –
Johann Strauss I and his orchestra visit Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Alexander and John Bethune publish Tales and Sketches of the Scottish Peasantry.
[12]
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Angus MacKay publishes A Collection of Ancient Piobaireachd or Highland Bagpipe Music.
[13]
See also
References
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^ Wilson, Alexander (1970). The Chartist Movement in Scotland. Manchester University Press.
ISBN
071900411X.
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^
"Chronology of Scottish History". A Timeline of Scottish History. Rampant Scotland. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
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^
"Steamship Curaçao".
Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
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^
"Where History Happened: Chartism". History Extra.
BBC. 12 May 2010. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
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^
"May 21st – 21/5/1838 – Elizabeth Jeffrey – Carluke, Lanarkshire". Victorian Hangings. London: True Crime Library. Archived from
the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
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^ Napier, James (1904). "VI. Admiralty".
The Life of Robert Napier of West Shandon. Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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link)
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^
"Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway". Engineering Timelines. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
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^
Girouard, Mark (1981).
The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman. New Haven: Yale University Press. p.
92.
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^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0.
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^
"Glen Ord Scotch Whisky Distillery". ScotchWhisky.net. Archived from
the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
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^ Fleet, Christopher; Withers, Charles W. J.
"Ordnance Survey Maps - Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882: A Scottish paper landscape". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
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^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6.
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^
"Alexander Johnston".
National Galleries of Scotland. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
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