1795 in Scotland
# 1795 in Scotland

Events from the year 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 (died 1861 in Canada)
* 25 May – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the (uncompleted) Scott Monument (died 1844)
* 19 June – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, pioneer of hypnotherapy (died 1860 in England)
* 6 September – Frances Wright, freethinker (died 1852 in the United States)
* 12 October – Janet Hamilton, née Thomson, poet and essayist (died 1873)
* 10 November – Walter Geikie, painter (died 1837)
* 4 December – Thomas Carlyle, historian, philosopher and essayist (died 1881 in England)
* 10 December – Sir George Burns, shipowner (died 1890)
* 21 December – Robert Moffat, missionary (died 1883)

## Deaths

* 22 February – Alexander Gerard, philosopher (born 1728)
* 19 May – James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson (born 1740)
* 23 June – James Craig, architect, planner of the New Town, Edinburgh (born 1744)
* 24 June – William Smellie, encyclopedist and naturalist (born 1740)
* 10 December – John Johnstone, nabob with the East India Company and landowner (born 1734)

## 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.
