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List of events
Events from the year 1856 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Otis elevator in Glasgow, imported from the U.S. in 1856 for Gardner's Warehouse, the oldest cast-iron fronted building in the British Isles
Births
30 May –
James Pittendrigh Macgillivray , sculptor and poet (died
1938 )
5 July –
Ion Keith-Falconer , road racing cyclist, Arabic scholar and missionary (died 1887 in Aden)
15 August –
Keir Hardie , socialist and labour leader (died
1915 )
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13 September –
Henry Halcro Johnston , botanist, army physician and rugby union international (died
1939 )
27 November –
Matthew Stirling , locomotive engineer (died 1931 in
Hull )
1 December –
Malcolm Smith , Liberal politician (died
1935 )
William W. Naismith , mountaineer (died
1935 )
William Robertson , industrialist (died
1923 )
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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