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- Incumbents Law officers Judiciary
- Events
- Births
- Deaths
- The arts
- See also
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}{{Use British English|date=January 2016}}{{Year in Scotland|1815}}Events from the year 1815 in Scotland. Incumbents {{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}} Law officers - Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Maconochie
Judiciary - Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
- Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle
Events - February/March – foundation stone of Montrose Academy laid.[1][2]
- 18 June – Battle of Waterloo: Ensign Charles Ewart of the Royal Scots Greys captures the French Imperial Eagle standard.[3]
- 1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens.[3]
- 19 September – foundation stones for Regent Bridge and Calton Jail in Edinburgh laid.[4]
- Hackness Martello towers in Orkney built.
- The Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on Calton Hill, is dedicated.
- Dunans and Ferness Bridges and Avoch harbour are completed to the designs of Thomas Telford.
- Glenfinnan Monument erected to mark the landing of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" at the start of the Jacobite rising of 1745 to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
- Armadale Castle on Skye is built in the style of Scottish Baronial architecture to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
- A Jury Court as a division of the Court of Session is introduced.[5]
- Regius Professorships at the University of Glasgow in Midwifery and Surgery are established by King George III.
- The Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society opens to business as Scotland's first mutual life insurance office.
- On Islay, Ardbeg distillery begins commercial production and Laphroaig distillery is established by Donald and Alexander Johnston.[6]
- The Clyde Shipping Company is set up by John Henderson, William Croil and Donald McPhee to provide services by paddle steamer.
- Pringle of Scotland, knitwear manufacturer, is established by Robert Pringle in the Borders.
- John Fletcher Macfarlan takes over the family apothecary business in Edinburgh, the predecessor of MacFarlan Smith, and begins to manufacture laudanum.
Births - 11 January
- John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (died 1891 in Ottawa)
- David Stevenson, lighthouse engineer (died 1886)
- 22 January – William Brodie, sculptor (died 1881)
- 25 March – George Thomson, shipbuilder (died 1866)
- 1 April – William Chalmers Burns, evangelical missionary to China (died 1868)
- 19 May
- Kate Dickens, née Catherine Hogarth, wife of Charles Dickens (died 1879 in London)
- Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1873)
- 11 June – W McEwan, cricketer (died 1862 in Australia)
- 12 June – James Valentine, photographer (died 1879)
- 29 August – James Fenton, railway engineer (died 1863)
- 20 December – James Legge, Congregationalist missionary to China (died 1897 in Oxford)
- Thomas Stuart Smith, painter and benefactor (died 1869 in Avignon)
Deaths - 14 January – William Creech, publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (born 1745)
- 4 February – John Ferriar, physician and writer (born 1761)
- 9 February – Claudius Buchanan, theologian, Church of England missionary to India (born 1766)
- 23 February – William Duff, Presbyterian minister and writer on psychology (born 1732)
- 10 April – William Roxburgh, Scottish surgeon and botanist (born 1751)
- 26 August – John Spalding, politician (born 1763)
- 8 September – Andrew Graham, naturalist
- 28 September – Gilbert Gerard, theological writer (born 1760)
- 9 December – Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, banker and steamboat promoter (born 1730)
- Thomas Keith, soldier (born c.1793)
The arts- Christian Isobel Johnstone's novel Clan-Albin: A National Tale is published.
- Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lord of the Isles and anonymous novel Guy Mannering are published.
- 6-year-old Edgar Allan Poe attends school in Irvine, North Ayrshire.
See also - Timeline of Scottish history
- 1815 in the United Kingdom
References 1. ^{{cite book|first=Trevor W.|last=Johns|title=The Mid Links, Montrose, since Provost Scott|publisher=Montrose Review Press|year=1988|page=52}}
2. ^{{cite book|first=Alexander Allan|last=Cormack|title=Susan Carnegie, 1744-1821: her life of service|publisher=Aberdeen University Press|year=1966|page=300}}
3. ^1 {{cite web|title=Chronology of Scottish History|work=A Timeline of Scottish History|publisher=Rampant Scotland|url=http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/1899.htm|accessdate=2014-02-20}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=History of Edinburgh|url=http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|work=Visions of Scotland|accessdate=2014-02-20}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nas.gov.uk/guides/otherSeries.asp|title=Court of Session – other series|publisher=National Archives of Scotland|accessdate=2014-02-20}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.laphroaigcollector.com/history.htm |title=History |accessdate=2014-02-20 |publisher=Laphroaig Collector |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6MVEAJUPF?url=http://www.laphroaigcollector.com/history.htm |archivedate=9 January 2014 |deadurl=no |df= }}
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