1837 in Scotland
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 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 Burns16 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
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