Major General James G. Blunt

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Events from the year 1856 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

Judiciary

Events

Otis elevator in Glasgow, imported from the U.S. in 1856 for Gardner's Warehouse, the oldest cast-iron fronted building in the British Isles

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Deaths

The arts

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References

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