1805 in Scotland
Events from the year 1805 in Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
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
The arts
See also
References
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