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1733 In Scotland
Events from the year 1733 in Scotland. Incumbents * Secretary of State for Scotland: ''vacant'' Law officers * Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes * Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Erskine Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange Events * 23 April–end of October – Wade's Bridge, Aberfeldy, designed by William Adam, built. * May–December – First Secession from the Church of Scotland. Births * 4 January – Robert Mylne, architect (died 1811 in London) * 3 February – Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1805 in England) * 1 May – Archibald McLean, Baptist minister (died 1812) * 22 May – Alexander Monro, anatomist (died 1817) * 24 December – Thomas Bell, theologian (died 1802) * John Forbes, general in Portuguese service (died 1808 in Brazil) * Lewis Hutchinson, serial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Secession
The First Secession was an exodus of ministers and members from the Church of Scotland in 1733. Those who took part formed the Associate Presbytery and later the United Secession Church. They were often referred to as Seceders. The underlying principles of the split focused upon issues of ecclesiology and ecclesiastical polity, especially in the perceived threat lay patronage represented to the right of a congregation to choose its own minister. These issues had their roots in seventeenth century controversies between presbyterian and episcopal factions in the Church of Scotland. This was complicated by the fact that most ministers, by tradition, were the younger sons from the aristocratic families, and those same families were usually the local landowners. The local landowner therefore would often act as a "patron" to the church, not only through gifting of money, but through supply of their own relatives to fill the role of minister. There were some ministers from more hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Vanse
Sir Patrick Vans (c. 1655 – 27 January 1733) was a Scottish army officer and politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1710 and 1722. Vans was the only surviving son of Alexander Vans of Barnbarroch and his wife, Margaret Maxwell, daughter of William Maxwell of Monreith, Wigtown. He joined the army and was in the French military from about 1673 to 1689. He was a captain in the Enniskillen regiment from about 1690 to 1693 and a captain in Colonel George McGill's Foot from 1696 to 1697. Before 1702, he married Margaret Campbell, daughter of Sir James Campbell of Lawers, Perth. In 1706 he was a lieutenant in Colonel Roger Townshend's Foot and by April 1707 a captain in Lord Mark Kerr's Foot. Between 1710 and 1712, he served as a Lieutenant Colonel. Vans was returned as Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire at the 1710 general election but was unseated on petition on 3 March 1711. He was on half-pay by 1714 and became a Burgess of Glasgow and Ayr in 1714. He mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Duncan (bishop)
Alexander Duncan (c.1655–1733) was a non-jurant Scottish Episcopal clergyman, college bishop (from 1724), and Bishop of Glasgow from 1731. Early Ministry Duncan is thought to have been the son of William Duncan, the Minister of New Kilpatrick, in Dunbartonshire, and his wife, Janet Macarthur. He attended the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1675. In 1680 he became the minister of Kilbirnie in Ayrshire. At this period the structure of the Church of Scotland was Episcopalian. Along with many clergy with Episcopalian sympathies Duncan was rabbled from his parish in 1688, struck and abused, his furniture smashed, and he and his family thrust out of doors. The following year the Episcopalian structure of the Church was abolished by Act of the Scottish Parliament, disestablishing the Scottish Episcopalians. After Disestablishment Duncan eventually made his way to Glasgow. Robert Cleland, writing in 1816, asserts that Duncan founded the Episcopalian congregation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Hutchinson
Lewis Hutchinson (1733–1773), a Scottish immigrant to Jamaica, was the first recorded serial killer in Jamaica's history and one of its most prolific. Early life Hutchinson, better known as the Mad Master and Mad Doctor of Edinburgh Castle, was born in Scotland in 1733 where he is believed to have studied medicine. Criminal career In the 1760s, he came to Jamaica to head an estate called Edinburgh Castle. He was said to have legally obtained the house (now a ruin) but to have maintained his group of cattle through the theft of strays from neighbours. This would not be the only accusation made against Hutchinson. For many miles, Edinburgh Castle was the only populated location on the way from Saint Ann's Bay, and, not knowing that they would become the target of Hutchinson's rifle, travellers would rest at the castle, only to succumb to the Mad Doctor's attack. Hutchinson murdered for pure sport, what may be described as a thrill killing, as passers-by from all races, shapes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Forbes (Portuguese General)
John Forbes, also known in Portuguese Language, Portuguese as João Forbes (1719 or 1733–1808), of Skellater, usually known as Forbes-Skellater, was a Scottish general in the Portuguese Army, Portuguese service. Biography Forbes was born in 1719 or 1733, in Aberdeenshire, the only son of George (Jorge).H. Morse Stephens, in the biographical entry he wrote for ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (1885–1900), states the father's name was Patrick. He entered the army when a boy of fifteen as a volunteer at the Siege of Maastricht (1748), siege of Maestricht, and was successful in winning a commission. He was essentially a Mercenary, soldier of fortune, and when Portugal applied to Kingdom of Great Britain, Britain for officers to reorganise her army under the Count of Lippe Buckeburg, he was one of the first to volunteer. Promoted to lieutenant in 1747, and to captain in 1756. Forbes remained in Portugal after the termination of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763); as a Roman C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1802 In Scotland
Events from the year 1802 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Charles Hope * 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 Eskgrove Events * January – Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen admits its first residents. * 2 October – first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson. * 10 October – the reforming quarterly ''The Edinburgh Review'' is first published by Archibald Constable. * November – the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is established as the Glasgow Philosophical Society "for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences". * The planned village of Lybster is established by the local landowner, General Patrick Sinclair. * The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society. * John Playfair publishes ''I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bell (minister)
Thomas Bell (1733–1802) was a Scottish minister, known as a theologian and translator. Life Bell was born at Moffat on 24 December 1733, and attended the parish school there. He was sent to the University of Edinburgh while still young, completed the course and continued theological studies at the university. Instead of seeking license from the Church of Scotland, Bell applied to the Presbytery of Relief, founded by Thomas Gillespie in 1761. He was licensed in 1767, and the same year was settled as minister of the Relief congregation at Jedburgh Jedburgh ( ; ; or ) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Roxburghshire. History Jedburgh began as ''Jedworð'', the "worth" or enclosed settlem ..., as successor to Thomas Boston the younger; he remained there for ten years. In 1777 he was translated to a large congregation of the Relief church in Glasgow. This move was without th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1817 In Scotland
Events from the year 1817 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Alexander Maconochie * Solicitor General for Scotland – James Wedderburn Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events * 25 January – ''The Scotsman'' is first published in Edinburgh as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren. * 1 March – suffocating fumes in the Leadhills lead mine kill seven. * 1 April – ''Blackwood's Magazine'' is launched as the ''Edinburgh Monthly Magazine'', a Tory publication. In October the publisher, William Blackwood, relaunches it as ''Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine''. * 20 May – Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow founded by Thomas Hopkirk and others to establish a Glasgow Botanic Garden. * June – Union Canal authorised. * 10 July – David Brewster patents the kaleidoscope. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Monro (secundus)
Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn (22 May 1733 – 2 October 1817) was a Scottish anatomist, physician and medical educator. He is typically known as to distinguish him as the second of Alexander Monro (other), three generations of physicians of the same name. His students included the naval physician and abolitionist Thomas Trotter (physician), Thomas Trotter. Monro was from the distinguished Munro of Auchinbowie, Monro of Auchenbowie family. His major achievements included, describing the lymphatic system, providing the most detailed elucidation of the musculo-skeletal system to date and introducing clinical medicine into the curriculum. He is known for the Monro–Kellie doctrine on intracranial pressure, a hypothesis developed by Monro and his former pupil George Kellie, who worked as a surgeon in the port of Leith. Life Alexander Monro, the third and youngest son of Isabella Macdonald of Sleat, and Alexander Monro (primus), Alexander Monro ''primus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1812 In Scotland
Events from the year 1812 in Scotland. Incumbents Law officers * Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun * Solicitor General for Scotland – David Monypenny Judiciary * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle Events * 1 January – Tron riot in Edinburgh concludes. * March – meeting in Edinburgh to discuss formation of the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society. * 6 July – the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway becomes the first public railway line to open in Scotland. It begins life as a 9.5-mile (16-kilometre), horse-drawn waggonway to carry coal from Kilmarnock to Troon harbour. On 27 June the horse-drawn passenger coach ''Caledonia'' began running over the line between Troon and Gargieston, near Kilmarnock. * 12 July (The Twelfth) – first Protestant Orange march in Scotland held in Glasgow, attracting hostile Catholic crowds. * August – Henry Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald McLean (Baptist)
Archibald McLean (1733–1812) was a Scotch Baptist, Scots Baptist minister. Life Born 1 May (O.S.) 1733, at East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, McLean was the son of a Highlander. As a child he spent time on Isle of Mull, Mull, where he learned Scottish Gaelic. Sent to school at Cathcart, and then at Cowcaddens, Cucaddins, he was apprenticed to a printer in Glasgow in 1746. Marriage allowed McLean to set up as a bookseller and printer in Glasgow; on a matter of conscience he gave up the business seven years later. After a short time in London he acted from 1767 to 1786 as overseer of the printing establishment of Messrs. Donaldson & Co. in Edinburgh. Brought up a Presbyterian, McLean in 1762 joined the Glasites (Sandemanians). In 1765 he left them for the Baptists, and in June 1768 he was chosen for pastoral office as Robert Carmichael's colleague at Edinburgh. He then toured Scotland and England, set up Scotch Baptist associations, and helped run them. A standard annual journey into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
