Today, August 13th is the 200th anniversary of the arrival of George IV in Edinburgh for the first visit by a reigning monarch to Scotland since the coroation of Charles II in 1651.
Curiously there were only four entries in the Public Register for 1822 - two of them rematriculations by key players in the Royal Jaunt, on the holders being granted baronetcies. Sir Walter Scott, responsible for the pageantry of the visit (and the Celtification of Scotland) who had been knighted a year or so earlier, and Sir William Arbuthnot, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who was knighted at the civic banquet in Parliament Hall during the visit.
Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford, 2nd matriculation January 1822
Lord Provost Sir William Arbuthnot 2nd matriculation August 1822
The Tate has a rather sketchy painting of the banquet by Turner:
