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1813
in
Scotland




  • 1814

  • 1815

  • 1816

  • 1817

  • 1818



Centuries:


  • 17th

  • 18th

  • 19th

  • 20th

  • 21st



Decades:


  • 1790s

  • 1800s

  • 1810s

  • 1820s

  • 1830s


See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1813 in: The UK • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere

Events from the year 1813 in Scotland.




Contents






  • 1 Incumbents


    • 1.1 Law officers


    • 1.2 Judiciary




  • 2 Events


  • 3 Births


  • 4 Deaths


  • 5 The arts


  • 6 See also


  • 7 References





Incumbents[edit]




  • Monarch – George III



The Telford bridge at Invermoriston



Law officers[edit]




  • Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun


  • Solicitor General for Scotland – David Monypenny; then Alexander Maconochie



Judiciary[edit]




  • Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton


  • Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose


  • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle



Events[edit]




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


  • 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.


  • 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]




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


  • 18 March –


    • Thomas Graham Balfour, physician (died 1891 in London)


    • William Calder Marshall, sculptor (died 1894 in London)




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


  • 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


  • 13 September – Daniel MacMillan, publisher (died 1857)


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

  • November – John Stuart, genealogist (died 1877)


  • 13 December –


    • James R. Ballantyne, orientalist (died 1864)


    • David Brandon, architect (died 1897)


    • George Bryson Sr., businessman and politician in Quebec (died 1900 in Canada)




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


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


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


  • Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer (died 1876)


  • Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder (died 1884)


  • John Kennedy, Congregational minister and theologian (died 1900)


  • William Logan, temperance campaigner (died 1879)


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


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


  • George Tosh, metallurgist (died 1900 in Scunthorpe)



Deaths[edit]




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


  • 15 February – Francis Home, physician (born 1719)


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


  • 15 April – Alexander Murray, linguist (born 1775)


  • 22 June – Allan Burns, surgeon (born 1781)


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


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


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


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



The arts[edit]



  • 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]





  1. ^ Brown, Fiona-Jane (2013-05-16). "Oscar shipwreck in 1813 cost the lives of 44 sailors". Daily Record. Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-02-21..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "History of Edinburgh". Visions of Scotland. Retrieved 2014-02-21.


  3. ^ "Invermoriston Bridge". SABRE. Retrieved 2014-02-21.


  4. ^ MacKechnie, Aonghus (2014). "Duchess Bridge, Langholm: an early Scottish cast-iron estate footbridge - made in Scotland". Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 3rd ser. 88: 109–16.


  5. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.












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