1792 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1792 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 Viscount Stormont
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield

Events

• "Year of the Sheep" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.
• 4 June – King's birthday riot in Edinburgh.^[1]
• 26 July – Associated Friends of the People for Parliamentary Reform constituted in Edinburgh.^[2]
• 13 November – Successes of the French Revolutionary Army are celebrated with bonfires and bell-ringing in Dundee and Perth causing the 42nd Regiment of Foot to be sent north to the towns.^[2]
• 11 December – First National Convention of the Scottish Friends of the People meets in Edinburgh to demand parliamentary reform.^[2]
• The first steam winding engine at a Scottish colliery is erected at Barrachnie in the Monklands coalfield.^[3]
• Clachan Bridge, connecting Seil to the mainland, is built to the design of John Stevenson of Oban revised by Robert Mylne.^[4]

Births

• 19 February – Roderick Murchison, geologist (died 1871)^[5]
• 22 June – James Beaumont Neilson, ironmaster (died 1865)
• 4 August – Edward Irving, founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church (died 1834)
• 20 October – Colin Campbell, army officer (died 1863)
• date unknown – John Gillies, botanist (died 1834)

Deaths

• January – Jenny Clow ("Clarinda"), domestic servant, a mistress and muse of Robert Burns, of tuberculosis (born 1766)
• 3 March – Robert Adam, architect (born 1728)
• 10 March – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1713)
• 29 April – George Vanden-Bempde, 3rd Marquess of Annandale (born 1720)
• 25 June – John Adam, architect (born 1721)
• 18 July – John Paul Jones, Scottish-born sailor and the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution (born 1747)
• 19 December – Mary Bulkley, actress (born 1747 or 1748 in England)

The arts

• 29 September – opening of Theatre Royal, Dumfries as The Theatre. By the 21st century this will be the oldest working theatre in Scotland.
• Robert Burns composes the song "Highland Mary".
• Publication of The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 4 June. On this Day in Scottish History. BBC. 2017-05-31.
2. Web site: Notable Dates in History. The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. 2016-01-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20160125210210/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-e.htm. 25 January 2016. dead. dmy-all.
3. The First (Old) Statistical Account of Scotland.
4. Web site: Seil, Clachan Bridge. Canmore. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Edinburgh. 2007. 2016-01-24.
5. Amodeo. Christian. June 2005. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison: Pioneering Scottish geologist Roderick Murchison was instrumental in the identification and naming of several geological time periods. Geographical.