1805 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1805 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir James Montgomery, Bt
• 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 Granton

Events

• 5 June – Edinburgh engraver David Scott and potter Hugh Adamson are executed at Glasgow Cross for forging banknotes.^[1]
• 21 October – Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Around 1,150 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Scotland.^[2]
• The planned village of New Scone is established.
• John and James Crombie establish the Crombie clothing company in Aberdeen.
• Isla Bank Mills at Keith are established.^[3]
• Killermont House is built at Bearsden for the Campbell-Colquhoun family.
• Rebuilding of Stobo Castle is begun.
• The Snow Tower (keep) of Kildrummy Castle collapses.^[4]
• Jean Maxwell is sentenced to a year's imprisoned in Kirkcudbright Tolbooth for "pretending to exercise witchcraft, sorcery, inchantment, conjuration, &c."^[5]
• English geologist George Bellas Greenough tours Scotland.^[6]

Births

• 26 January – Patrick Fairbairn, theologian (died 1874)
• 30 January – Edward Sang, mathematician (died 1890)
• 8 March – Rayner Stephens, radical reformer and Methodist minister (died 1879 in Stalybridge)
• 26 March – Alexander John Scott, dissident theologian and educationalist (died 1866 in Switzerland)
• 18 May – James Paterson journalist and antiquary (died 1876)
• 26 May – Joseph Grant, poet (died 1835)
• 3 August (bapt.) – William McCombie, agriculturalist (died 1880)
• 8 August – Henry Craik, evangelical preacher and Hebraist (died 1866 in Bristol)
• 11 October – James Salmon, architect (died 1888)
• 28 October – John Thomson, classical composer (died 1841)
• November – Horatio McCulloch, landscape painter (died 1867)
• 10 December – William Anderson, writer (died 1866 in London)
• 13 December – Johann von Lamont, astronomer and physicist (died 1879 in Germany)
• 21 December – Thomas Graham, chemist (died 1869 in Scotland)
• Alexander Forrester, educationalist in Nova Scotia (died 1869 in Canada)
• James Merry, ironmaster, Liberal politician and racehorse breeder (died 1877)
• David Boswell Reid, physician, chemist and "grandfather of air conditioning" (died 1863 in the United States)

Deaths

• 30 January – John Robison, physicist (born 1739)
• 25 February – William Buchan, physician (born 1729)
• 29 March – Jean Elliot, poet (born 1727)
• 28 August – Alexander Carlyle, Church of Scotland leader (born 1722)
• 21 October – George Duff, naval officer (born 1764; killed at Battle of Trafalgar)
• 23 December – Francis Masson, plant hunter (born 1741; died in Montreal)

The arts

• Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel is published.

See also

• 1805 in Ireland

Notes and References

1. Web site: Notable Dates in History . The Flag in the Wind . . 2014-08-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140808044706/https://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-e.htm . 8 August 2014 .
2. Web site: Trafalgar ancestors. The National Archives (United Kingdom). 2014-08-21.
3. Book: Hume, John R.. The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland. II: The Highlands and Islands. London. Batsford. 1977. 0-7134-0809-X. 178–9.
4. Web site: Kildrummy Castle. Historic Scotland. 2014-08-21.
5. Henderson. Lizanne. The survival of witchcraft prosecutions and witch belief in South West Scotland. The Scottish Historical Review. 2006. 85. 52-74. 2021-03-28.
6. M. J. S.. Rudwick. Hutton and Werner compared: George Greenough's geological Tour of Scotland in 1805. The British Journal for the History of Science. 1. 2. 117–135. 1962. 10.1017/s000708740000131x.