1802 in Scotland

Events from the year 1802 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Charles Hope
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Eskgrove

Events

• January – Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen admits its first residents.
• 2 October – first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson.
• 10 October – the reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published by Archibald Constable.
• November – the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is established as the Glasgow Philosophical Society "for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences".
• The planned village of Lybster is established by the local landowner, General Patrick Sinclair.
• The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society.
• John Playfair publishes Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth in Edinburgh, popularising James Hutton's theory of geology.
• John Home publishes History of the Rebellion of 1745.
• Malcolm Laing publishes History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms.

Births

• 1 April – William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London)
• 20 May – David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
• 10 July – Robert Chambers, publisher, geologist and writer (died 1871)
• 16 July – Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887)
• 20 August – Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868)
• 24 August (bapt.) – John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858)
• 28 August – Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876)
• 19 September – Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London)
• 10 October – Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856)
• Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia)

Deaths

• 21 January – John Moore, physician and writer (born 1729; died in London)
• 26 February – Alexander Geddes, Roman Catholic theologian and scholar (born 1737; died in London)
• John Mackay, botanist (born 1772)
• Donald MacNicol, clergyman and writer (born 1735)

The arts

• 29 January – Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway.
• Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border begins publication by James Ballantyne in Kelso.

See also

• 1802 in Ireland

References