# 1813 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1813 in Scotland.

## Incumbents
### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
* Solicitor General for Scotland – David Monypenny; then Alexander Maconochie

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
* Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

## Events

* 1 April – whaler Oscar wrecked off Aberdeen with the loss of 44 lives.
* 15 April – foundation stone of new harbour at Newhaven, Edinburgh, laid.
* October
** Completion of road bridge at Potarch by Thomas Telford; his bridge at Invermoriston is also completed this year.
** Probable completion of cast-iron footbridge over Esk on Buccleuch estate near Langholm.
* 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

* 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)
* 10 September – Angus MacKay, piper (died 1859)
* 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

* 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

* James Hogg's poem The Queen's Wake is published.