1795 in Scotland

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston
• 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 Braxfield

Events

• 18 November – the River Clyde, in spate, floods the centre of Glasgow and brings down the recently erected bridge at the foot of the Saltmarket.
• Gallowgate Barracks in Glasgow are built.

Births

• 12 March – William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and politician in Canada
• 25 May – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the Scott Monument
• 19 June – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, pioneer of hypnotherapy
• 6 September – Frances Wright, freethinker
• 12 October – Janet Hamilton, née Thomson, poet and essayist
• 10 November – Walter Geikie, painter
• 4 December – Thomas Carlyle, historian, philosopher and essayist
• 10 December – Sir George Burns, shipowner
• 21 December – Robert Moffat, missionary

Deaths

• 22 February – Alexander Gerard, philosopher
• 19 May – James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson
• 23 June – James Craig, architect, planner of the New Town, Edinburgh
• 24 June – William Smellie, encyclopedist and naturalist
• 10 December – John Johnstone, nabob with the East India Company and landowner

The arts

• Archibald Constable starts in business for himself as a dealer in rare books in Edinburgh, origin of the publishing business which enters the 21st century as Constable & Robinson.

Sport

• 17 January – Duddingston Curling Society formally organised.