# 1828 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1828 in Scotland.

## Incumbents
### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt
* Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
* Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

## Events

* 7 January – Rev. Henry Duncan describes his discovery of the fossil footmarks of quadrupeds (Chelichnus duncani) in Permian red sandstone at Cornockle Muir, near Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire, the first scientific report of a fossil track, in a paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
* 9 March – an English gang make off with £28,350 after holding up the Glasgow branch of the Greenock Bank.
* April – David Stow opens his Drygate model school in Glasgow.
* 15 June – 28 people are killed when the north gallery of the Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy, collapses during a sermon by popular preacher Edward Irving.
* 8 August – the Ballochney Railway (near Airdrie, horse worked) is completed throughout.
* 10 September – first public demonstration of Rev. Patrick Bell's reaping machine on his family's farm.
* 17–24 December – Burke and Hare murders trial in Edinburgh: William Burke is sentenced to hang for his part in the murder of 17 victims (up to 31 October) to provide bodies for dissection by anatomist Robert Knox; his accomplice William Hare is released having turned King's evidence.
* Inhabitants of the island of Muck emigrate to Nova Scotia.
* St Stephen's Church, Edinburgh, is completed to the design of William Henry Playfair.
* Caird & Company established by John Caird in Greenock as marine engineers.
* James Beaumont Neilson patents the hot blast process for ironmaking.
* A steam road coach constructed by James and George Naysmith runs between Leith and Queensferry.
* Glasgow Co-operative Society established.

## Births

* 4 April – Mrs. Oliphant, born Margaret Wilson, novelist and historical writer (died 1897 in London)
* 16 August – John Waddell, railway contractor (died 1888)
* 30 September – John Simpson Knox, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1897 in England)
* 5 October – Alexander Gunn, grocery wholesaler (died 1907 in Canada)
* 1 November – Balfour Stewart, physicist (died 1887 in Ireland)
* 13 December – Alexander Shand, 1st Baron Shand, judge (died 1904)
* Alexander Crum, textile printer and Liberal politician (died 1893)
* Robert Doull, merchant and politician (died 1906 in Canada)
* John Small, librarian and scholar (died 1886)

## Deaths

* 29 February – John Ainslie, cartographer (born 1745)
* 11 June – Dugald Stewart, Enlightenment philosopher (born 1753)
* 5 July – Andrew Duncan, physician (born 1744)
* 20 December – Archibald Fletcher, reforming lawyer (born 1746)
* Robert Blair, astronomer (born 1748)
* William Drummond of Logiealmond, diplomat and philosopher (born c.1770)

## The arts

* The Maitland Club is founded in Glasgow to edit and publish early Scottish texts.
* The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell is published.
* Sir Walter Scott's novel The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series) is published.