# 1815 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1815 in Scotland.

## Incumbents
### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
* Solicitor General for Scotland – 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

* February/March – foundation stone of Montrose Academy laid.
* 18 June – Battle of Waterloo: Ensign Charles Ewart of the Royal Scots Greys captures the French Imperial Eagle standard.
* 1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens.
* 19 September – foundation stones for Regent Bridge and Calton Jail in Edinburgh laid.
* The Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on Calton Hill, is dedicated.
* Hackness Martello Tower and Battery and Crockness Martello tower in Orkney are completed.
* Dunans and Ferness Bridges and Avoch harbour are completed to the designs of Thomas Telford.
* Glenfinnan Monument erected to mark the landing of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" at the start of the Jacobite rising of 1745 to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
* Armadale Castle on Skye is built in the style of Scottish Baronial architecture to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
* A Jury Court as a division of the Court of Session is introduced.
* Regius Professorships at the University of Glasgow in Midwifery and Surgery are established by King George III.
* The Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society opens to business as Scotland's first mutual life insurance office.
* On Islay, Ardbeg distillery begins commercial production and Laphroaig distillery is established by Donald and Alexander Johnston.
* The Clyde Shipping Company is set up by John Henderson, William Croil, Donald McPhee and George Jardine Kidston to provide services by paddle steamer.
* Pringle of Scotland, knitwear manufacturer, is established by Robert Pringle in the Borders.
* John Fletcher Macfarlan takes over the family apothecary business in Edinburgh, the predecessor of MacFarlan Smith, and begins to manufacture laudanum.
* Aberdeen Savings Bank is formed.

## Births

* 11 January
** John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (died 1891 in Ottawa)
** David Stevenson, lighthouse engineer (died 1886)
* 22 January – William Brodie, sculptor (died 1881)
* 25 March – George Thomson, shipbuilder (died 1866)
* 1 April – William Chalmers Burns, evangelical missionary to China (died 1868)
* 19 May
** Kate Dickens, née Catherine Hogarth, wife of Charles Dickens (died 1879 in London)
** Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1873)
* 11 June – W McEwan, cricketer (died 1862 in Australia)
* 12 June – James Valentine, photographer (died 1879)
* 29 August – James Fenton, railway engineer (died 1863)
* 20 December – James Legge, Congregationalist missionary to China (died 1897 in Oxford)
* Thomas Stuart Smith, painter and benefactor (died 1869 in Avignon)

## Deaths

* 14 January – William Creech, publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (born 1745)
* 4 February – John Ferriar, physician and writer (born 1761)
* 9 February – Claudius Buchanan, theologian, Church of England missionary to India (born 1766)
* 23 February – William Duff, Presbyterian minister and writer on psychology (born 1732)
* 10 April – William Roxburgh, Scottish surgeon and botanist (born 1751)
* 26 August – John Spalding, politician (born 1763)
* 8 September – Andrew Graham, naturalist
* 28 September – Gilbert Gerard, theological writer (born 1760)
* 9 December – Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, banker and steamboat promoter (born 1730)
* Thomas Keith, soldier (born c.1793)

## The arts

* Christian Isobel Johnstone's novel Clan-Albin: A National Tale is published.
* Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth, Gaelic folklore collected in 1691/92, is first published.
* Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lord of the Isles and anonymous novel Guy Mannering are published.
* 6-year-old Edgar Allan Poe attends school in Irvine, North Ayrshire.