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List of events
Events from the year 1859 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
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27 January –
James Grierson, British Army lieutenant general (died on service
1914 in France)
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8 March –
Kenneth Grahame, author best known for
The Wind in the Willows (died 1932 in England)
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10 March –
Dugald Sutherland MacColl, painter and curator (died 1948 in London)
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25 March –
John Bruce Glasier, socialist politician (died
1920)
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22 May –
Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and fiction writer best known for his stories about the fictional detective
Sherlock Holmes (died 1930 in England)
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10 June –
James Guthrie, painter (died
1930)
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8 July –
Annie Shepherd Swan, novelist (died
1943)
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9 September –
William James Cullen, Lord Cullen, judge (died
1941)
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24 September –
S. R. Crockett, novelist (died
1914 in France)
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25 October –
Allan MacDonald, Roman Catholic priest, poet, folklore collector and activist (died
1905)
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18 November –
James Nairn, painter (died
1904 in New Zealand)
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Thomas Corsan Morton, painter (died
1928)
Deaths
The arts
See also
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