1803 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1803 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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

• 4 January – William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas
  , the "first practical steamboat".
• Pulteneytown at Wick
  for development.
• Kelso Bridge, designed by John Rennie, completed.
• First
  Boulton and Watt steam engine in Scotland installed at an Aberdeen paper mill.^[3]
• Lismore Seminary is opened by the Catholic Church.
• Most of the 'Luckenbooths' in
  High Street, Edinburgh are demolished, opening up the prospect of St Giles' Cathedral.^[4]

• 15 January – Marjorie Fleming, child writer (died 1811
  )
• 3 April – David Bryce, architect (died 1876
  )
• 16 April – Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple, judge (died 1870
  )
• 12 July – Thomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist (died 1873)^[5]
• 10 September – Robert Wilson
  , mechanical engineer, inventor of the screw propeller (died 1882 in England)
• 16 October – James Edward Alexander, soldier, author and traveller (died 1885
  )
• 25 December – Donald Gregory, antiquarian (died 1836) and his twin brother William Gregory, chemist and psychic investigator (died 1858)^[6]
• George Patton, Lord Glenalmond, judge (suicide 1869)

Deaths

• 2 April – Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, politician and judge (born 1721
  )
• 6 April – William Hamilton, diplomat (born 1730
  )
• 3 June – Lord George Murray, Bishop of St David's and developer of the UK's first optical telegraph (born 1761
  )
• 18 August – James Beattie, poet and philosopher (born 1735
  )
• Approximate date – Johnnie Notions (John Williamson), self-taught physician, pioneer of inoculation (born c. 1730)

The arts

• Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 written by Dorothy Wordsworth (published 1874)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1803 in Ireland

References