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1722 In Scotland
Events from the year 1722 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe Law officers * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Binning Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange Events * 7 May – Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway construction begins. * Signet Library established in Edinburgh. * Pheasant introduced to Scotland. * Possible date – Burning of Janet Horne as a witch – ''see'' 1727 in Scotland. Births * 26 January – Alexander Carlyle, Church of Scotland leader (died 1805) * 4 May – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, judge (died 1799) * 13 September – John Home, Episcopalian minister, playwright and writer (died 1808) * 16 September – Gabriel Christie, British Army general and settler in Quebec (died 1799 in Canada) * 1 December – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Horne
Janet Horne (died 1727) was the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. Horne and her daughter were arrested in Dornoch in Sutherland and imprisoned on the accusations of her neighbours. Horne was showing signs of senility, and her daughter had a deformity of her hands and feet. The neighbours accused Horne of having used her daughter as a pony to ride to the Devil, where she had her shod by him. The trial was conducted very quickly; the sheriff, Captain David Ross, had judged both guilty and sentenced them to be burned at the stake. The daughter managed to escape, but Janet was stripped, smeared with tar, paraded through the town on a barrel and burned alive. Nine years after her death the witchcraft acts were repealed in Scotland. Janet (or Jenny) Horne was also a generic name for witches in the north of Scotland at the time and this makes it difficult to determine what the real name of this woman may have been. Contemporary writers may have call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora MacDonald
Flora MacDonald (1722 – 5 March 1790) is best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. Her family had generally backed the government during the 1745 Rising, and MacDonald later claimed to have assisted Charles out of sympathy for his situation. Arrested and held in the Tower of London, she was released under a general amnesty in June 1747. She later married Allan MacDonald and the couple emigrated to North Carolina in 1773. Their support for the British government during the American War of Independence meant the loss of their American estates and they returned to Scotland, where she died in 1790. Early life Flora MacDonald was born in 1722 at Milton on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, third and last child of Ranald MacDonald (d. 1723) and his second wife, Marion. Her father was a member of the minor gentry of Clan MacDonald of Clanranald, being tacksman and leaseholder of Milton and Balivanich. She h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1787 In Scotland
Events from the year 1787 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Ilay Campbell * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas of Arniston Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger until 13 December; then from 22 December, Lord Glenlee * Lord Justice General – The Viscount Stormont * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming, then Lord Braxfield Events * 11 January – new Assembly Rooms opened in George Street, Edinburgh. * 27 January – Bridge of Dun completed. * 1 February – New Club, Edinburgh, founded as a private gentlemen's club. * June ** Patrick Miller of Dalswinton demonstrates his design of manually-propelled paddleboat on the Firth of Forth. ** Kennetpans Distillery begins to operate a condensing rotative stationary steam engine designed by James Watt, the first in Scotland. * Summer – Calton weavers' strike. On 3 September, six of the Calton weavers are killed by troops. * 1 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brown (theologian)
John Brown of Haddington (1722 – 19 June 1787) was a Scottish minister and author. He was born at Carpow, in Perthshire. He was almost entirely self-educated, having acquired a knowledge of ancient languages while employed as a shepherd. By his own intense application to study, before he was twenty years of age, he had obtained an intimate knowledge of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, with the last of which he was critically conversant. He was also acquainted with the French, Italian, German, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, and Ethiopic. His early career was varied, and he was in succession a travelling merchant, a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745, and a school-master. He was, from 1750 till his death, minister of the Burgher branch of the Secession Church in Haddington. From 1768 he was professor of divinity for his denomination, and was mainly responsible for the training of its ministers. He gained a just reputation for learning and piety. The best of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl Of Selkirk
Dunbar () is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecclesiastical and civil parish. The parish extends around east to west and is deep at its greatest extent, or , and contains the villages of West Barns, Belhaven, and East Barns (abandoned) and several hamlets and farms. Dunbar has a harbour dating from 1574 and is home to the Dunbar Lifeboat Station, the second-oldest RNLI station in Scotland. The Dunbar Primary School and Dunbar Grammar School opened in the 1950s and 1960s. Dunbar is the birthplace of the explorer, naturalist, and influential conservationist John Muir. The house in which Muir was born is located on the High Street, and has been converted into a museum. There is also a commemorative statue beside the town clock, and John Muir Country Park is located to the north-west o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 In Canada
Events from the year 1799 in Canada. Incumbents *Monarch A monarch () is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary. "Monarch". Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest ...: George III Federal government *Parliament of Lower Canada: 2nd Parliament of Lower Canada, 2nd *Parliament of Upper Canada: 2nd Parliament of Upper Canada, 2nd Governors *Governor General of the Province of Canada, Governor of the Canadas: Robert Prescott then Sir Robert Milnes, 1st Baronet, Robert Milnes *List of lieutenant governors of New Brunswick, Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton *Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth (governor), John Wentworth *Colonial Governor of Newfoundland, Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Elliot (Royal Navy officer), John Elliot *List of lieutenant governors of Prince Edward Island, Governor of St. John's Island: Edmund F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Christie (British Army Officer)
Gabriel Christie may refer to: * Gabriel Christie (British Army officer) (1722–1799), British Army general from Montreal, Canada * Gabriel Christie (Maryland politician) (1756–1808), U.S. Congressman from Maryland See also * Christie (name) {{hndis, Christie, Gabriel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1808 In Scotland
Events from the year 1808 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun * Solicitor General for Scotland – David Boyle Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth to 31 August; then Lord Avontoun * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Granton Events * January – Christopher Anderson begins missionary work in The Pleasance district of Edinburgh, which will lead to his taking over the Charlotte Chapel. * 2 March – inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society is held in Edinburgh under the presidency of Prof. Robert Jameson. * 21 May – Thomas Telford's Tongland bridge is fully completed. * 27 May – the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first railway line in Scotland to be authorised by Act of Parliament. * 7 June – first meeting at the Bogside Racecourse, Irvine. * October – Thomas Telford's Dunkeld– Birnam bridge is opened to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Home
Rev John Home (2 September 1722 – 4 September 1808) was a Scottish minister, soldier and author. His play '' Douglas'' was a standard Scottish school text until the Second World War, but his work is now largely neglected. In 1783, he was one of the joint founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Biography He was born on 2 September 1722 in Leith near Edinburgh, and christened on 3 September 1722. His father, Alexander Home, a distant relation of the earls of Home, was town clerk. His mother was Christian Hay, the daughter of an Edinburgh lawyer. John was educated at the Leith Grammar School, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated MA in 1742. Though interested in being a soldier, he studied divinity, and was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Edinburgh in 1745. In the same year he joined as a volunteer against Bonnie Prince Charlie, and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Falkirk. With many others he was carried to Doune Castle in Perthshire, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 In Scotland
Events from the year 1799 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield, then Lord Eskgrove Events * 9 January – Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars. * June – the last militia regiments in the Highland Fencible Corps are raised at about this time, but most are disbanded this year. * 3 June – publication of The First (Old) Statistical Account of Scotland concludes. * 13 June – Colliers Act ("An Act to explain and amend the Laws relative to Colliers in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland") frees coal miners from bondage to their employers, the last vestige of serfdom in Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield
Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield (4 May 1722 – 30 May 1799) was a Scottish advocate and judge. Life McQueen was born at Braxfield House near Lanark on 4 May 1722, son of John McQueen. He studied law at Edinburgh University and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1744. In 1759 he was appointed an Advocate Depute appearing for the Crown in prosecutions. He often appeared in more than 15 cases per day and earned £1900 in a single year. He became a judge in 1776 and took the title Lord Braxfield. In 1788 he became Lord Justice Clerk, the second most senior judge in Scotland. Explicitly taking the view that "Government in this country is made up of the landed interest, which alone has a right to be represented" he took an active role in the suppression of the Friends of the People Society in the trials and sentences passed on Thomas Muir and others. To accomplish this he "invented a crime of unconscious sedition". A famous quote of his in this respect was "Let them brin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
