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Events from the year 1857 in Scotland.

• Lord Advocate – James Moncreiff

• Solicitor General for Scotland – Edward Maitland

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Colonsay

• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Glencorse

• 18 March – the Greenock Telegraph begins publication.

• 1 May – Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland inaugurated in Glasgow.

• 30 June – 9 July: trial of Madeleine Smith, charged with the poisoning of a former lover in Glasgow; a "not proven" verdict is returned.

• 9 November – The Western Bank of Scotland (Glasgow) collapses.

• 16 November – the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot wins six Victoria Crosses in the storming of Sikandar Bagh during the second relief of Lucknow in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

• Police (Scotland) Act 1857 makes the provision of a police force mandatory in the counties of Scotland.

• Lunga, Treshnish Isles, is depopulated.

• First whaler to be fitted with a steam engine, the Tay at Dundee.

• W. C. Stewart publishes The Practical Angler.

• 31 March – John James Burnet, architect (died 1938)

• 11 April – John Davidson, poet and playwright (drowned himself 1909 at Penzance)

• 15 May – Williamina Fleming, née Stevens, astronomer noted for her discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in 1888 (died 1911 in the United States)

• 15 June – William Fife, yacht designer (died 1944)

• 4 July – John Campbell, architect (died 1942 in New Zealand)

• 11 July – David Prain, botanist (died 1944)

• 19 September – James Bridie, international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)

• 2 October – John Macintyre, laryngologist and pioneer radiographer (died 1928)

• Date unknown – John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, Sheriff 1900–20, Senator of the College of Justice 1930–28 (died 1932)

• 9 March – James Duff, 4th Earl Fife, general in Spanish service and landowner (born 1776)

• 19 March – William Henry Playfair, architect (born 1790 in London)

• 15 April – William Skinner, bishop and Primus (born 1778)

• 26 August – Christian Isobel Johnstone, writer and editor (born 1781)

• 14 October – Alexander Laing, "the Brechin poet" (born 1787)

• 18 November – John Fleming, minister, naturalist, zoologist and geologist (born 1785)

• Britannia Music Hall opened in Glasgow.

• Timeline of Scottish history

• 1857 in Ireland