Association for Vindication of Scottish Rights (Home Rule Organization) Founded in Edinburgh

November 02, 1853

Expressions of this Scottish nationalism were seen in the setting up in 1853 of the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights.

Sir William Ridgeway, classical scholar, is born in Ballydermot, Co. Offaly

John Gibson Lockhart, biographer and critic, editor Blackwoods magazine, died