Events from the year 1860 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff Solicitor General for Scotland – Edward Maitland
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glenalmond
Events 15 September – King's and Marischal Colleges in Aberdeen merge as the University of Aberdeen. October – the Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations the first Thurso life-boat at Scrabster. 17 October – the first professional golf tournament is held at Prestwick, regarded as the first Open (although it is not truly open until the following year when amateurs can participate). 21 December – St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen (Roman Catholic) is dedicated. Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, opens. Andrew Stewart sets up the Clyde Tube Works in Glasgow, a predecessor of Stewarts & Lloyds. Folklorist John Francis Campbell begins publication of Popular Tales of the West Highlands in Edinburgh.
Births 6 March – Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, politician, 6th Governor-General of Australia (died 1934) 7 March – John Duncan Watson, civil engineer (died 1946 in Birmingham) 22 March – John George Bartholomew, cartographer (died 1920) 15 April – Edward Arthur Walton, painter (died 1922) 2 May John Scott Haldane, physiologist (died 1936) D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, biologist (died 1948) 9 May – J. M. Barrie, author (died 1937 in London) 30 May – Archibald Thorburn, wildlife painter (died 1935 in Surrey, England) 3 July – William Wallace, composer (died 1940) 31 July – George Warrender, admiral (died 1917 in London) 3 August – William Kennedy Dickson, inventor, pioneer of cinematography, born in France (died 1935 in Twickenham, England) 19 August – John Kane, naïve painter (died 1934 in the United States) 25 September – John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1st Governor-General of Australia (died 1908 in France) 21 November – James Leith Macbeth Bain, religious minister, hymn writer and walker (died 1925) 26 November – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter (died 1932) James Colton, anarchist (died 1936) James Miller, architect (died 1947)
Deaths 27 January – Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, former Governor of New South Wales and astronomer (born 1773) 25 March – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, often regarded as the first genuine hypnotherapist (born 1795) 1 April – William Mure, scholar and politician (born 1799) 25 August – William Wilson, poet and publisher (born 1801) James Barr, composer (born 1779)
See also Timeline of Scottish history 1860 in Ireland
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