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List of events
Events from the year 1854 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
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1 January –
Victoria Bridge, Glasgow, opened over the
River Clyde at Stockwell Street, replacing the Bishop's Bridge.
[1]
- July – first voyage by a seagoing
steamship fitted with a
compound steam engine, the
screw steamer Brandon, built on the
River Clyde by
John Elder.
[2]
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10 August –
Merchant Shipping Act 1854 vests management of Scottish lighthouses in the
Northern Lighthouse Board (among other provisions).
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15 September – new
North Ronaldsay lighthouse, designed by
Alan Stevenson, first illuminated.
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20 September –
Aberdeen Kittybrewster railway station opened to serve the
Great North of Scotland Railway main line to
Keith.
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11 October – temporary
North Unst Lighthouse on
Muckle Flugga (
Shetland), designed by brothers
Thomas and
David Stevenson, first illuminated.
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24 October –
The Thin Red Line: a military action by the
Sutherland Highlanders red-coated
93rd (Highland) Regiment at the
Battle of Balaclava during the
Crimean War.
[3] Pipe Major John MacLeod has during this campaign transcribed the tune "
The Green Hills of Tyrol" for the
bagpipes.
[4]
- November –
The Orcadian newspaper begins publication in
Kirkwall.
- Brown and Polson's patent
corn flour first produced, in
Paisley.
[5]
Births
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27 January –
George Alexander Gibson, physician and geologist (died
1913)
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16 February –
Horatio Brown, Nice-born historian of Venice (died
1926 in Italy)
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31 March –
Dugald Clerk, mechanical engineer, inventor of the
two-stroke engine (died 1932 in England)
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17 May –
Donald MacAlister, physician and academic (died 1934 in England)
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8 June –
Eustace Balfour, architect (died
1911)
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21 July –
David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse designer (died
1938)
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21 August –
James Paterson, painter (died
1932)
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17 September –
David Dunbar Buick, automobile engineer (died
1929 in the United States)
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2 October –
Patrick Geddes, town planner (died
1932 in France)
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22 October –
Robert Urie, steam locomotive engineer (died
1937)
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27 October –
William Alexander Smith, businessman and founder of the
Boys' Brigade (died 1914 in England)
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Cynicus (Martin Anderson), satirical cartoonist and postcard publisher (died
1932)
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William Lithgow, shipbuilder (died
1908)
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Neil Kennedy, Lord Kennedy, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1912-18 (died
1918)
Deaths
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