1832 in Scotland

Events from the year '''1832 in Scotland.'''

Incumbents

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

21 January – The Marquis of Lothian's Waggonway is opened.
4 June – the Scottish Reform Act, reforming the Scottish Westminster constituencies and enlarging the electorate from 5,000 to 60,000, is passed in Parliament contemporaneously with similar legislation for other constituents of the U.K., becoming law from 17 July. On 11 August around 50,000 gather on the Links in Edinburgh to celebrate the event.
2 June – passengers are first carried over the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, between St Leonards and North Esk by horse-drawn carriage.
16 July – "The Bad Day": 31 sixareens are lost in a storm with 105 crew.
Commissioners of Woods and Forests become the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings and begin to manage the hereditary land revenues of the Crown in Scotland formerly controlled by the Barons of the Exchequer, under terms of this year's Crown Lands Act.
September – a Jewish burial ground is established on part of the site that will shortly become Glasgow Necropolis.
Edinburgh City Mission is established by David Nasmith.
Glen Scotia distillery is established in Campbeltown.
Elie Golf Club, North Berwick Golf Club and The Grange Club are established.
John Thomson's The Atlas of Scotland is published in Edinburgh.
George IV Bridge in Edinburgh is completed to the design of Thomas Hamilton.
Stirling New Bridge is completed to the design of Robert Stevenson.
The planned community of Port Wemyss, originally called Wemysshaven, near Portnahaven on Islay, is built by the local laird, Walter Frederick Campbell MP.
Craignish Castle is rebuilt around this date.
Agriculturalist William McCombie forms his herd of black Aberdeen Angus cattle.

Births

26 February – Thomas Anderson, botanist
20 May – Charles Umpherston Aitchison, colonial governor
12 August – Hely Hutchinson Almond, rugby player and educationalist
19 December – John Kirk, physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone and British administrator in Zanzibar
James Burgess, archaeologist active in India
George Anderson Lawson, sculptor
Frederick Thomas Pilkington, architect
J. B. Selkirk, poet and essayist

Deaths

27 January – Andrew Bell, educationist and minister of religion
13 May – Andrew Duncan, physician
30 May – John Clerk, Lord Eldin, judge and art collector
23 June – Sir James Hall, geologist
21 September – Sir Walter Scott, historical novelist and poet
3 November – Sir John Leslie, physicist
24 December – Thomas Morton, shipbuilder

The arts

4 February – Chambers's Edinburgh Journal is established by William Chambers.
14 August – première of Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture The Hebrides in London.
21 September – historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott dies aged 61 at his home, Abbotsford House, leaving his novel The Siege of Malta unfinished; he is buried in the grounds of Dryburgh Abbey with Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers in attendance. His novels Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous are published this year.Tait's Edinburgh Magazine is established by William Tait.
John Donald Carrick edits the poetry anthology Whistle Binkie.
James Hogg, writing as "The Ettrick Shepherd", publishes the poems Altrive Tales.
William Motherwell publishes his Poems, narrative and lyrical in Glasgow.