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Events from the year 1802 in Scotland.

Incumbents[edit]

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  Monarch – George III
  

Law officers[edit]

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  Lord Advocate – Charles Hope
  


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  Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair
  

Judiciary[edit]

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  Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
  


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  Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
  


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  Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Eskgrove
  

Events[edit]

• January – Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen admits its first residents.


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  2 October – first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson.


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  10 October – the reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published by Archibald Constable.


• November – the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is established as the Glasgow Philosophical Society "for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences".^[1]
  


• The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society.^[2]
  


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  John Playfair publishes Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth in Edinburgh, popularising James Hutton's theory of geology.


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  John Home publishes History of the Rebellion of 1745.


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  Malcolm Laing publishes History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms.

Births[edit]

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  1 April – William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London)


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  20 May – David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)


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  10 July – Robert Chambers, publisher, geologist and writer (died 1871)


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  16 July – Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887)


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  20 August – Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868)


• 24 August (bapt.) – John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858)


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  28 August – Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876)


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  19 September – Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London)


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  10 October – Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856)


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  Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia)

Deaths[edit]

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  21 January – John Moore, physician and writer (born 1729; died in London)


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  26 February – Alexander Geddes, Roman Catholic theologian and scholar (born 1737; died in London)


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  John Mackay, botanist (born 1772)


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  Donald MacNicol, clergyman and writer (born 1735)

The arts[edit]

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  29 January – Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway.^[3]
  


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  Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border begins publication anonymously by James Ballantyne in Kelso.^[4]
  

See also[edit]

• 1802 in the United Kingdom

References[edit]