1806 in Scotland explained
Events from the year 1806 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 1 February – George Harvey, genre painter (died 1876)
- 19 March – John Coldstream, physician (died 1863 in England)
- 26 March – James Hogg, publisher (died 1888 in England)
- 15 April – Alexander Duff, Church of Scotland missionary to India (died 1878 in England)
- 4 June – Daniel Macnee, portrait painter (died 1882)
- 5 July – James Dawson, Guardian of Australian Aboriginals (died 1900 in Australia)
- 20 July – John Sterling, author (died 1844 in England)
- 19 September – William Dyce, painter (died 1864 in England)
- October – William Atherton, lawyer and liberal politician (died 1864 in England)
- 10 or 12 October – David Scott, historical painter (died 1849)
- 10 December – David Robertson, marine biologist (died 1896)
- James Graham, missionary photographer (died 1869)
Deaths
- 30 January – David Smythe, Lord Methven, judge (born 1746)
- 20 February – Lachlan McIntosh, military and political leader (born 1725; died in Savannah, Georgia)
- 17 March – David Dale, businessman and philanthropist (born 1739)
- 5 April – Benjamin Bell, surgeon (born 1749)
- 24 May – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, field marshal (born 1723)
- 29 December – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, politician (born 1735)
- Mungo Park, explorer (born 1771; died in Bussa, Nigeria)
The arts
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: History of Edinburgh. Visions of Scotland. 2014-08-19. 14 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm. dead.
- Web site: Canal records. The National Archives of Scotland. Edinburgh. 2014-08-19. 2006-06-19. NAS reference: BR/GPA, CS96/2002..
- Book: Bastions and Barbed Wire. Leiden. Brill. 2008. 112. 2014-11-19.