Queens Park opens. Pathhead Farm was bought by the Thomson family from the Maxwells in 1799. Neale Thomson sold it for £30,000 to Glasgow Corporation in 1857, and between then and 1862 it was laid out as a public park partially to the design of Sir Joseph Paxton, architect of Crystal Palace. Despite various assertions to the contrary, it remains unclear which queen it was named after, Mary, or Victoria.