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- Incumbents Law officers Judiciary
- Events
- Births
- Deaths
- See also
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1842 }}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.[1]
- 21 February – Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened.[2]
- 29 April – New Market opened in Aberdeen.[3]
- 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.[4]
- 1 September – Queen Victoria arrives by sea at Granton, Edinburgh, to start her first visit to Scotland.[5]
- 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.[6]
- James Shanks patents and begins to produce the pony-drawn lawn mower.[7]
- Carnoustie Golf Links opened.[8]
Births - 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 {{Portal|Scotland}}- Timeline of Scottish history
- 1842 in the United Kingdom
References 1. ^{{cite book|title=The Chartist Movement in Scotland|first=Alexander|last=Wilson|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=1970|isbn=071900411X}}
2. ^{{cite news|author=Glasgow Constitutional|title=Opening Of The Edinburgh And Glasgow Railway|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=1842-02-22|page=6|issue=17913}}
3. ^{{cite journal|title=The New Market|journal=Leopard|location=Aberdeen|date=November 1974|pages=32–5}}
4. ^{{cite book|first=W. R.|last=Kermack|title=19 Centuries of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Johnston|year=1944|page=87}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Victoria's Visit|url=http://digital.nls.uk/scotlandspages/timeline/1842.html|publisher=National Library of Scotland|accessdate=2014-06-16}}
6. ^{{cite journal|first=James|last=Johnston|title=The first bicycle|journal=The Gallovidian|location=Dumfries|volume=4|date=Winter 1899}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=History of the Lawnmower: Part One: 1830-1850s|url=http://www.hdtrust.co.uk/hist01.htm|publisher=The Hall & Duck Trust|accessdate=2014-04-28}}
8. ^The World Atlas of Golf, 2nd ed. (1988); Finegan, James W., Scotland: Where Golf is Great (2010).
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