Events from the year 1802 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 1 April â William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London)
- 20 May â David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
- 10 July â Robert Chambers, publisher, geologist and writer (died 1871)
- 16 July â Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887)
- 20 August â Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868)
- 24 August (bapt.) â John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858)
- 28 August â Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876)
- 19 September â Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London)
- 10 October â Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856)
- Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia)
Deaths
The arts
See also
References