1800 in Scotland
# 1800 in Scotland

Events from the year 1800 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 Eskgrove

## Events

* 1 January – Robert Owen becomes manager of the New Lanark spinning mills.
* 15 February – "Meal mob" riot over bread prices in Glasgow.
* 30 June – Glasgow Police Act authorises creation of the City of Glasgow Police, which first musters on 15 November.
* August – the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot is first mustered by William Wemyss at Strathnaver; in September they are sent from Fort George via Aberdeen to Guernsey and in October formally gazetted into the British Army.
* Royal Cornhill Hospital established as Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum.
* Legbrannock Waggonway opened by William Dixon (senior) to move coal from Legbrannock colliery on the Woodhall Estate to the Monkland Canal at Calderbank, an early example of a railway in Scotland.
* New bridges built at Thurso and Wick and Sir John Sinclair plans development of Thurso.
* Approximate date
   * Planned village and pier at Inchyra in the Carse of Gowrie built.
   * Preston Hall, Midlothian, completed.

## Births

* 12 January – Duncan McLaren, Liberal politician (died 1886)
* 23 February – William Jardine, naturalist (died 1874 on the Isle of Wight)
* 10 April (bapt.) – George Moir, lawyer (died 1870)
* 16 April – William Chambers, publisher (died 1883)
* 17 April – Catherine Sinclair, novelist (died 1864 in London)
* 22 April – Ralph Robb, Free Church minister in Canada (died 1850 in Canada)
* 26 April – Elizabeth Sinclair, born Eliza McHutcheson, pioneer in Pacific colonies (died 1892 in Hawaii)
* 4 May – John McLeod Campbell, Reformed theologian (died 1872)
* 11 July – Charles Lees, portrait painter (died 1880)
* 3 September – James Braidwood, firefighter (killed firefighting 1861 in London)
* 14 October – Charles Neaves, judge and poet (died 1876)
* 24 October – Alexander Gibson, surgeon and forest conservator in India (died 1867)
* Leitch Ritchie, writer (died 1865 in London)

## Deaths

* 30 January – William Forsyth, merchant (born 1722)
* 16 March – David Doig, educator and writer (born 1719)
* 8 April – James Stuart-Mackenzie, politician and astronomer (born c.1719)
* 27 December – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (born 1718)
* 30 December – Duke Gordon, librarian (born 1739)

## The arts

* 14 June – Friedrich Schiller's historical drama Mary Stuart has its première in Weimar.
* 27 November – Walter Scott's first original poems, "Glenfinlas" and "The Eve of St. John", are published.
* The Works of Robert Burns is published posthumously.
