1782 in Scotland explained
Events from the year 1782 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 23 January – local Laird George Ludovic Houston invites purchase of marked plots of land which, when built upon, form the planned town of Johnstone, to provide employment for his thread and cotton mills, and one of the latter is erected by Corse, Burns & Co.
- 1 July – Act of Proscription 1746 (including Dress Act) repealed, permitting wearing of Highland dress and arms.
- Muslin first woven in Scotland by James Monteith at Anderston.[1]
Births
- 2 February – James Chalmers, printer, publisher and bookseller, claimed inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (died 1853)
- 17 March – Andrew Halliday, physician, reformer and writer (died 1839)
- 16 April – William Jerdan, journalist (died 1869 in London)
- 15 August – James Smith of Jordanhill, merchant, antiquarian and architect (died 1867)
- 7 September – Susan Edmonstone Ferrier, novelist (died 1854)
- 7 October – Charles Maclaren, editor and geologist (died 1866)
- Grace Kennedy, writer of religious novels (died 1825)
Deaths
The arts
Sport
Notes and References
- Book: Kermack, W. R.. 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh. Johnston. 1944. 80.