1802 in Scotland

none January 2016 January 2016 1802 Events from the year 1802 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Law officers Lord Advocate – Charles Hope 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 January – Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen admits its first residents. 2 October – first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson. 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".History http://royalphil.org/?page_id=24 The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow 2014-08-22 The planned village of Lybster is established by the local landowner, General Patrick Sinclair. The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society.The oldest medical societies in Great Britain Shaw A. Batty Medical History July 1968 12 3 232–244 10.1017/s0025727300013272 1033825 4875610 John Playfair publishes Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth in Edinburgh, popularising James Hutton's theory of geology. John Home publishes History of the Rebellion of 1745. Malcolm Laing publishes History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms. Births 1 April – William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London) 20 May – David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870) 10 July – Robert Chambers, publisher, geologist and writer (died 1871) 16 July – Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887) 20 August – Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868) 24 August (bapt.) – John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858) 28 August – Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876) 19 September – Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London) 10 October – Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856) Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia) Deaths 21 January – John Moore, physician and writer (born 1729; died in London) 26 February – Alexander Geddes, Roman Catholic theologian and scholar (born 1737; died in London) John Mackay, botanist (born 1772) Donald MacNicol, clergyman and writer (born 1735) The arts 29 January – Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway.Mackay James 2004 Burns: A Biography of Robert Burns Darvel Alloway Publishing 978-0-907526-85-8 688 Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border begins publication by James Ballantyne in Kelso.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/354 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 978-0-304-35730-7 354 See also 1802 in Ireland References Scotland Category:Years of the 19th century in Scotland Category:1800s in Scotland Scotland