1810 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1810 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1810 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1810 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
- 25 March â the Commercial Bank of Scotland is founded in Edinburgh by John Pitcairn, Lord Cockburn and others.[1]
- 10 May â Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire.[1]
- 10 November â Paisley canal disaster: A pleasure craft capsizes on the newly-completed first section of the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal with the loss of 84 lives.[2]
- 19 December â Frigates HMS Nymphe and HMS Pallas are wrecked near Dunbar.[3]
- Monach Islands abandoned for the first time, due to overgrazing.
- Edinburgh Theological College founded to train clergy for the Scottish Episcopal Church.[4]
Births
- 5 February â John Muir, Indologist (died 1882)
- 2 April â Thomas Balfour, politician (died 1838)
- 19 June â Charles Wilson, architect (died 1863)
- August â William Miller, poet (died 1872)
- 19 August â Edward Ellice, Liberal politician (died 1880)
- 22 September â John Brown, physician and essayist (died 1882)
- 12 October â Alexander Bain, inventor (died 1877)
- 8 December â John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (died 1883)
- Andrew Findlater, editor (died 1885)
- John Notman, architect in the United States (died 1865)
Deaths
- 17 May â Robert Tannahill, "weaver poet" (born 1774)
- John Finlay, poet (born 1782)
- Probable date â William Cruickshank, military surgeon, chemist and inventor
The arts
- Jane Porter's historical novel about William Wallace, The Scottish Chiefs, is published.
- Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is published.