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List of events
Events from the year 1814 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- From midyear –
Highland Clearances:
Patrick Sellar begins mass expulsion of
crofting tenants from
Strathnaver at Grummore to make way for sheep farming as
factor for the
Marquess and
Marchioness of Stafford.
-
7 July –
Walter Scott's
Waverley, his first prose fiction and one of the first significant
historical novels in English, set during the
Jacobite rising of 1745, is published anonymously by
Archibald Constable in
Edinburgh, selling out in two days.
[1]
- October –
Thomas Telford's Lovat Bridge, the first over the
River Beauly, is opened.
- November – Thomas Telford's
cast iron
Craigellachie Bridge over the
River Spey is opened.
- Thomas Telford's
Craighouse pier on
Jura is constructed.
- Building of the industrial village of
Friockheim in
Angus is begun.
-
Gartnavel Royal Hospital is established as the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum.
[2]
- Glasgow Medical Society is established.
[3]
- Chapel of St Mary's, designed by
James Gillespie Graham, opened in Edinburgh, the origin of
St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Roman Catholic).
-
St George's Church,
Charlotte Square,
New Town, Edinburgh, designed by
Robert Reid after
Robert Adam, is completed.
-
William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde, erected.
-
Mary Brunton's novel Discipline, set in the Highlands, is published.
-
Ayrshire cattle recognised as a distinct breed by the
Highland and Agricultural Society.
[4]
Births
-
7 January –
Robert Nicoll, radical journalist and poet (died
1837)
-
31 January –
Andrew Ramsay, geologist (died
1891)
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27 February –
Robert Turnbull Macpherson, artist and photographer working in Rome (died
1872)
-
20 March –
John Goodsir, pathologist (died
1867)
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28 March –
John Thomas Rochead, architect (died
1878)
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10 April –
Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, judge and politician (died
1879)
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7 May –
George Heriot Swanston, map engraver
-
21 June –
Samuel Halkett, librarian (died
1871)
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8 July –
Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, banker, Liberal politician and evangelical clergyman (died
1887)
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26 July –
John Arnott, entrepreneur in Ireland (died
1898 in Ireland)
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27 September –
John Burnet, architect (died
1901)
-
20 December –
William McGill, physician and
Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario) (died
1883 in Canada)
Deaths
See also
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