1813 in Scotland

Events from the year 1813 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
Solicitor General for Scotland – David Monypenny; then Alexander Maconochie

Judiciary

Events

1 April – whaler Oscar wrecked off Aberdeen with the loss of 44 lives.
15 April – foundation stone of new harbour at Newhaven, Edinburgh, laid.
October
* Completion of road bridge at Potarch by Thomas Telford; his bridge at Invermoriston is also completed this year.
* Probable completion of cast-iron footbridge over Esk on Buccleuch estate near Langholm.
The first Kirkcaldy whaler, The Earl Percy, sails north to the Davis Strait.
Glasgow weavers fail in an attempt to secure higher wages.
Robert Owen obtains control of the cotton spinning mills at New Lanark and publishes A New View of Society, or Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character.

Births

30 January – George Gilfillan, writer and poet
18 March –
* Thomas Graham Balfour, physician
* William Calder Marshall, sculptor
19 March – David Livingstone, missionary and explorer
13 April – Duncan Farquharson Gregory, mathematician
14 May – John Hosack, lawyer and historian
17 May? – Eliza Rennie, author
18 May – Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, judge
21 May – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman
27 May – William McNaught, steam engineer
21 June – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, lawyer and poet
28 July – James Newlands, municipal engineer
10 August – Archibald Smith, mathematician and lawyer
6 September – Edward Balfour, surgeon and orientalist
10 September – Angus MacKay, piper
13 September – Daniel MacMillan, publisher
30 September – John Rae, Arctic explorer and physician
November – John Stuart, antiquarian
13 December –
* James R. Ballantyne, orientalist
* David Brandon, architect
* George Bryson Sr., businessman and politician in Quebec
18 December – John Edgar Gregan, architect
John Bell-Irving, businessman in Hong Kong
James Colquhoun Campbell, Bishop of Bangor
Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer
Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder
John Kennedy, Congregational minister and theologian
William Logan, temperance campaigner
Letitia MacTavish Hargrave, born Letitia MacTavish, pioneer in Canada
Daniel M'Naghten, assassin
George Tosh, metallurgist

Deaths

5 January – Alexander Fraser Tytler, judge and historian
15 February – Francis Home, physician
15 March – Janet Richmond, born Janet Little, "The Scots Milkmaid", Scots language poet
15 April – Alexander Murray, linguist
22 June – Allan Burns, surgeon
8 July – William Craig, Lord Craig, judge
23 August – Alexander Wilson, ornithologist in America
11 October – Robert Kerr, scientific writer and translator
28 October – William Dudgeon, farmer and songwriter

The arts

James Hogg's poem The Queen's Wake is published.