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Events from the year 1813 in Scotland.

Incumbents[edit]

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  Monarch – George III
  

The Telford bridge at Invermoriston

Law officers[edit]

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  Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
  


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  Solicitor General for Scotland – David Monypenny; then Alexander Maconochie
  

Judiciary[edit]

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  Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
  


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  Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
  


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  Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle
  

Events[edit]

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  1 April – whaler Oscar wrecked off Aberdeen with the loss of 44 lives.^[1]
  


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  15 April – foundation stone of new harbour at Newhaven, Edinburgh, laid.^[2]
  


• October
  
  
  
  • Completion of road bridge at Potarch by Thomas Telford; his bridge at Invermoriston is also completed this year.^[3]
    
  
  
  • Probable completion of cast-iron footbridge over Esk on Buccleuch estate near Langholm.^[4]
    
  
  
  
  


• The first Kirkcaldy whaler, The Earl Percy, sails north to the Davis Strait.


• Glasgow weavers fail in an attempt to secure higher wages.


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  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[edit]

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  30 January – George Gilfillan, writer and poet (died 1878)


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  18 March –
  
  
  
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    Thomas Graham Balfour, physician (died 1891 in London)
  
  
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    William Calder Marshall, sculptor (died 1894 in London)
  
  
  
  


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  19 March – David Livingstone, missionary and explorer (died 1873 in Africa)


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  13 April – Duncan Farquharson Gregory, mathematician (died 1844)


• 14 May (bapt.) – John Hosack, lawyer and historian (died 1887 in London)


• 17 May? – Eliza Rennie, author


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  18 May – Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, judge (died 1896)


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  21 May – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman (died 1843)


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  27 May – William McNaught, steam engineer (died 1881 in Manchester)


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  21 June – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, lawyer and poet (died 1865)


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  28 July – James Newlands, municipal engineer (died 1871 in Liverpool)


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  10 August – Archibald Smith, mathematician and lawyer (died 1872 in London)


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  6 September – Edward Balfour, surgeon and orientalist (died 1889 in London)


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  13 September – Daniel MacMillan, publisher (died 1857)


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  30 September – John Rae, Arctic explorer and physician (died 1893 in London)


• November – John Stuart, genealogist (died 1877)


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  13 December –
  
  
  
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    James R. Ballantyne, orientalist (died 1864)
  
  
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    David Brandon, architect (died 1897)
  
  
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    George Bryson Sr., businessman and politician in Quebec (died 1900 in Canada)
  
  
  
  


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  18 December – John Edgar Gregan, architect (died 1855 in Manchester)


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  John Bell-Irving, businessman in Hong Kong (died 1907)


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  James Colquhoun Campbell, Bishop of Bangor (died 1895 in Hastings)


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  Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (died 1876)


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  Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder (died 1884)


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  John Kennedy, Congregational minister and theologian (died 1900)


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  William Logan, temperance campaigner (died 1879)


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  Letitia MacTavish Hargrave, born Letitia MacTavish, pioneer in Canada (died 1854)


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  Daniel M'Naghten, assassin (died 1865 in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum)


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  George Tosh, metallurgist (died 1900 in Scunthorpe)

Deaths[edit]

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  5 January – Alexander Fraser Tytler, judge and historian (born 1747)


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  15 February – Francis Home, physician (born 1719)


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  15 March – Janet Richmond, born Janet Little, "The Scots Milkmaid", Scots language poet (born 1759)


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  15 April – Alexander Murray, linguist (born 1775)


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  22 June – Allan Burns, surgeon (born 1781)


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  8 July – William Craig, Lord Craig, judge (born 1745)


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  23 August – Alexander Wilson, ornithologist in America (born 1766)


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  11 October – Robert Kerr, scientific writer and translator (born 1755)


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  28 October – William Dudgeon, farmer and songwriter (born 1753?)

The arts[edit]

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  James Hogg's poem The Queen's Wake is published.^[5]
  

See also[edit]

• Timeline of Scottish history


• 1813 in the United Kingdom

References[edit]