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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland| 1850 }}Events from the year 1850 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}} Law officers - Lord Advocate – Andrew Rutherfurd
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Maitland; then James Moncreiff
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Boyle
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glencorse
Events - 1 April – Aberdeen Railway opens to a terminus at Ferryhill, Aberdeen.
- 15 April – iron paddle steamer {{SS|City of Glasgow}}, launched on 28 February by Tod & Macgregor of Partick, makes her maiden voyage as the first steamer on the Glasgow–New York route.
- 18 June – paddle steamer Orion sinks off Portpatrick[1] through the negligence of her master with the loss of 50 lives.
- 17 October – James Young patents a method of distilling paraffin from coal, laying the foundations for the Scottish paraffin industry.
- Cox Brothers open the Camperdown Works in Dundee which will become the world's largest jute works.
- Remodelling of Dunrobin Castle completed.
- Skara Brae revealed by weather.
Births - 4 February – Thomas Lomar Gray, seismologist (died 1908 in the United States)
- 24 April – Murdo MacKenzie, businessman (died 1939 in the United States)
- 30 April – George Gibb, transport administrator (died 1925 in London)
- 12 May – Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, jurist, landowner, industrialist and Unionist politician (died 1934 in London)
- 14 June – Eliza Humphreys, née Gollan (pen name 'Rita'), novelist (died 1938 in England)
- 13 August – Peter Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (died 1918)
- 13 November – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (died 1894 in Samoa)
- 11 December – Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, married into European nobility (died 1922 in Budapest)
Deaths - 26 January – Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (born 1773)
- 5 June – Thomas Brown, architect (born 1781)
- 18 June – John Burns, surgeon (born 1775) (in PS Orion disaster)
- 12 July – Robert Stevenson, civil engineer noted for lighthouses (born 1772)[2]
- 3 December – John Gibb, civil engineer and contractor (born 1776)
- 29 December – William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (born 1792 in Ireland)
- Approximate date – Walter Sutherland, last native speaker of the Norn language on Unst
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
- 1850 in the United Kingdom
References 1. ^{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=John|title=The History of Steam Navigation|year=2007|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|isbn=978-1-4304-8330-4}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nlb.org.uk/HistoricalInformation/StevensonEngineers/Robert-Stevenson/|title=Robert Stevenson|publisher=Northern Lighthouse Board|year=2009|accessdate=2014-04-14}}
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