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Events from the year 1833 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 16 March – at an auction of the art collection of John Clerk, Lord Eldin (died 1832) at his home in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, the floor collapses, killing the banker Alexander Smith.[1]
 - April – Glasgow Necropolis opened.[2]
 - 10 April – St Peter's RC Primary School, Aberdeen, founded.[3]
 - 28 August –– the Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners, many of whom are in Scotland.
 - 7 October – the Edinburgh Emancipation Society, Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, Glasgow Emancipation Society and Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society are formed in support of abolitionism.
 - 30 October – Edinburgh Town Council first allows newspaper reporters to attend its meetings.[4]
 - Burgh Police (Scotland) Act permits burghs to establish themselves as police burghs, having powers to provide policing and to pave and light streets.
 - Glengoyne distillery is established as the Burnfoot distillery by George Connell on the Highland line near Dumgoyne.[5]
 - John Menzies is established as a newsagent in Edinburgh.
 - Madras College is established in St Andrews by merger of the grammar and English schools under the bequest of locally-born educationalist Rev. Dr. Andrew Bell (died 1832), promoter of the 'Madras system' of education.[6]
 - Chemist Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law.
 - Statue of William Pitt the Younger (died 1806) erected in George Street, Edinburgh.[7]
 - The Royal Perth Golfing Society gains its royal patronage.
 
Births
- 1 January – Robert Lawson, architect (died 1902 in New Zealand)
 - 24 February – William Howie Wylie, journalist and Baptist (died 1891)
 - 20 March – Daniel Dunglas Home, medium (died 1886 in France)
 - 16 April – John Malcolm, 1st Baron Malcolm, soldier and politician (died 1902 in France)
 - 22 April – John Waldie, politician in Ontario (died 1907 in Canada)
 - 16 July – Donald Reid, landowner, businessman and politician in Otago (died 1919 in New Zealand)
 - 26 July – Alexander Henry Rhind, antiquarian and Egyptologist (died 1863 in Italy)
 - 12 August – Aylmer Cameron, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1909 in England)
 - 12 November – George Paul Chalmers, painter (killed 1878)
 - 14 December – Alexander Young, mechanical engineer and government official in Hawaii (died 1910 in Honolulu)
 
Deaths
- 3 May – James Bell, geographical writer (born 1769)
 - 29 May – William Marshall, fiddle player and composer (born 1748)
 - August – Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone, soldier, colonial governor and fraudster (born 1767; died in France)
 - 10 October – Thomas Atkinson, poet, bookseller and politician (born c.1801; died at sea)
 - 11 November – James Grant, naval officer (born 1772; died in France)
 - 30 November – William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, lawyer and antiquarian (born 1743)
 
The arts
- May – the final revised edition of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, edited by Scott's son-in-law J. G. Lockhart, begins publication.[8]
 - Allan Cunningham's poem The Maid of Elvar is published.[8]
 
See also
References
- ↑ "Scotland". The Spectator. London. 23 March 1833. p. 9. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
 - ↑ Glasgow City Council. Glasgow Necropolis Heritage Trail.
 - ↑ "Father Charles Gordon". Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
 - ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
 - ↑ MacLeod, H. MacLennan (1962). "The Parish of Killearn". In Rennie, R.C. (ed.). The County of Stirling. The Third Statistical Account of Scotland, 18. Glasgow: Collins.
 - ↑ Galloway, D. D. (1989). In the Footsteps of Dr. Bell. St Andrews: Madras College.
 - ↑ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
 - 1 2 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
 
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