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3 March – Robert Story, Church of Scotland minister and writer (died 1859) 25 October – Robert Stirling, Church of Scotland minister and inventor of the Stirling engine (died 1878) 29 October – David Napier, marine engineer (died 1869 in London) James Clow, Presbyterian minister and settler in Melbourne (died 1861 in Australia)
An Act to continue Two Acts made in the Twenty-eighth [p] and Twenty-ninth [q] Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for discontinuing for a limited Time the several Duties payable in Scotland upon Low Wines and Spirits, and upon Worts, Wash, and other Liquors there used in the Distillation of Spirits, and for granting to His Majesty other ...
The Scottish Test Act was passed in 1681 but rescinded in 1690. Later attempts to exclude Scotland from the English Test Acts were rejected by the Parliament of Scotland. In 1707, anyone bearing office in any university, college or school in Scotland was to profess and subscribe to the Confession of Faith. All persons were to be free of any ...
The results are crucial to an understanding of Scotland on the eve of both the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution. In 1790, Sir John sent structured questionnaires to over 900 parish ministers, covering the whole country. This contained 160 questions in 4 sections, namely Geography and topography; Population
1790s disestablishments in Scotland (3 C) 1790s establishments in Scotland (10 C, 2 P) 0–9. ... 1790 in Scotland; 1791 in Scotland; 1792 in Scotland; 1793 in Scotland;
1790 in Scotland (1 C, 1 P) 1790 in Southeast Asia (2 C) 1790 in Spain (2 C, 1 P) 1790 in the Spanish Empire (2 C, 1 P) 1790 in Sweden (3 C, 3 P) T. 1790 in Taiwan (1 ...
Cameo of William Cullen (close-up), Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Burial enclosure of William and Robert Cullen in Kirknewton. William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE (/ ˈ k ʌ l ən /; 15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790) was a British physician, chemist and agriculturalist from Hamilton, Scotland, who also served as a professor at the Edinburgh Medical School. [3]
A portrait of Tobacco Lord John Glassford, his family and an enslaved Black servant c. 1767. The Tobacco Lords were a group of Scottish merchants active during the Georgian era who made substantial sums of money via their participation in the triangular trade, primarily through dealing in slave-produced tobacco that was grown in the Thirteen Colonies.