• Events from the year 1862 in Scotland. Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff Solicitor General for Scotland – Edward Maitland; then George Young Lord President...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1862. 1862 (MDCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...
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  • Sandyford murder case (category 1862 in Scotland)
    one Jessie McPherson, a servant, at 17 Sandyford Place, Glasgow, Scotland, in July 1862. McPherson's friend Jessie McLachlan later stood trial, accused...
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  • the Ontario Legislature, 1960–1963 William Gordon Burn Murdoch (1862–1939), Scottish painter, travel writer and explorer William McMaster Murdoch (1873–1912)...
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  • The year 1862 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. May 8 – Church of St Philip and St James, Oxford, designed...
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  • This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862. February – Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети – old spelling...
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  • professor and Nobel Prize laureate Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862–1937), Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, nursing administrator...
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  • moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1644 Jim Bonar (1862–1924), Scottish footballer This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • Scottish engineer, businessman and activist James Cromar Watt (1862–1940), Scottish artist, architect and jeweller Jim Watt (rugby union) (1914–1988)...
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  • November – James Sheridan Knowles, dramatist and actor (born 1784). 1862 in Scotland 1862 in Wales Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland...
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  • The year 1862 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. January 31 – Alvan Graham Clark makes the first observation of...
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    Place, had a rear entrance on Great Scotland Yard. An 1862 map of Westminster shows the location. Over time, Scotland Yard was used generally as a metonym...
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    elected from the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the House of Lords after the Acts of Union 1707 abolished the Parliament of Scotland, where, as a unicameral...
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  • (scholar) (1757–1821), Scottish lawyer and amateur astronomer Jane C. Bonar (1821–1884), Scottish hymnwriter Jim Bonar (1862–1924), Scottish footballer John...
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  • Barbour is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Barbour (1862–1930), Scottish international footballer Anna...
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  • (1797–1867), American astronomer and engineer James Haig Ferguson (1862–1934), Scottish gynaecologist James Ferguson (anthropologist) (born 1959), American...
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    Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland...
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  • academic administrator Francis William Deas (1862–1951), Scottish architect Sir George Deas (1804–1887), Scottish judge Jack Deas (1875–1949), Australian rules...
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    Òran Mór (category 1862 establishments in Scotland)
    Òran Mór (Scottish Gaelic: "great melody of life" or "big song") is a theatre, restaurant, entertainment and music venue in Glasgow. From 1862 until 1978...
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    Elderslie (Scottish Gaelic: Achadh na Feàrna) is a village in the council area and historic county of Renfrewshire in west central Scotland. It chiefly...
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  • society looked after assets worth over £5.3 billion. Scottish Friendly was established in 1862 as the City of Glasgow Friendly Society, and was a breakaway...
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  • Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1862. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments between 1707 and 1800...
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  • This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1862. January – United States Military Railroad is authorized by the United States...
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  • Mary Timney (category 1862 murders in the United Kingdom)
    April 1862) was the last woman publicly executed in Scotland. She had been convicted of the murder of her landlady Ann Hannah. Timney lived in Carsphad...
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  • (footballer, born 1862) (1862–?), Scottish footballer for Accrington John Stevenson (footballer, born 1898) (1898–1979), English/Scottish footballer (Ayr...
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    October 1796 – 8 November 1862), styled Lord Glenorchy until 1831 and as Earl of Ormelie from 1831 to 1834, was a Scottish nobleman and Liberal politician...
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  • barrister David Anderson, Lord St Vigeans (1862–1948), Scottish lawyer and judge, Chairman of the Scottish Land Court 1918–34 David L. Anderson (attorney)...
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    Helen Brodie Cowan Bannerman (née Watson; 25 February 1862 – 13 October 1946) was a Scottish children's writer. She is best known for her first book, Little...
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  • same time, a poll in favour of adopting the act now needed only a simple majority. The General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict....
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