1810 in Scotland

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
• Solicitor General for Scotland – David Boyle

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Avontoun
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Granton

  Events

• 25 March – the Commercial Bank of Scotland is founded in Edinburgh by John Pitcairn, Lord Cockburn and others.
• 10 May – Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire.
• 10 November – Paisley canal disaster: A pleasure craft capsizes on the newly-completed first section of the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal with the loss of 84 lives.
• 19 December – Frigates and are wrecked near Dunbar.
• Monach Islands abandoned for the first time, due to overgrazing.
• Edinburgh Theological College founded to train clergy for the Scottish Episcopal Church.

  Births

• 5 February – John Muir, Indologist
• 2 April – Thomas Balfour, politician
• 19 June – Charles Wilson, architect
• August – William Miller, poet
• 19 August – Edward Ellice, Liberal politician
• 22 September – John Brown, physician and essayist
• 12 October – Alexander Bain, inventor
• 8 December – John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of [St Andrews and Edinburgh]
• Andrew Findlater, editor
• John Notman, architect in the United States

  Deaths

• 17 May – Robert Tannahill, "weaver poet"
• John Finlay, poet
• Probable date – William Cruickshank, military surgeon, chemist and inventor

  The arts

• Jane Porter's historical novel about William Wallace, The Scottish Chiefs, is published.
• Walter Scott's narrative poem The [Lady of the Lake |The Lady of the Lake] is published.