Events from the year 1842 in Scotland.

Incumbents Law officers Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt until October; then Duncan McNeill Solicitor General for Scotland – Duncan McNeill; then Adam Anderson

Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Hope

Events 3 January – 3rd Scottish Convention of Chartists opens in Glasgow. 21 February – Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened. 29 April – New Market opened in Aberdeen. May – the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland makes a "Claim of Rights" (drafted by Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop) asserting the church's independence of state control in spiritual matters. 1 September – Queen Victoria arrives by sea at Granton, Edinburgh, to start her first visit to Scotland. September – Robert Davidson's experimental battery-electric locomotive Galvani is demonstrated on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The Sobieski Stuarts' Vestiarium Scoticum is published in Edinburgh, purporting to be a reproduction from an old manuscript illustrating traditional Scottish clan tartan dress. A velocipede rider from Dumfriesshire, perhaps Kirkpatrick Macmillan, knocks down a pedestrian in the Gorbals district of Glasgow. James Shanks patents and begins to produce the pony-drawn lawn mower. Glasgow Botanic Gardens moves to its current location. Carnoustie Golf Links opened.The World Atlas of Golf, 2nd ed. (1988); Finegan, James W., Scotland: Where Golf is Great (2010).

Births 16 April – Laidlaw Purves, surgeon and golfer (died 1917 in England) 1 May – David Boyle, archaeologist in Canada (died 1911) 27 June – Jamie Anderson, golfer (died 1905) 20 September – James Dewar chemist and physicist (died 1923) 12 October – Robert Gillespie Reid, railway contractor in Canada (died 1908)

Deaths 28 April – Charles Bell, surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian (born 1774) 31 May – James Fergusson, judge (born 1769) 12 December – Robert Haldane, theologian (born 1764 in London) 24 December – Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, judge (born 1760)

See also

Timeline of Scottish history 1842 in Ireland

References