Events from the year 1810 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun Solicitor General for Scotland – David Boyle
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Avontoun Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Granton
Events 25 March – the Commercial Bank of Scotland is founded in Edinburgh by John Pitcairn, Lord Cockburn and others. 10 May – Rev. Henry Duncan opens the world's first commercial savings bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire. 10 November – Paisley canal disaster: A pleasure craft capsizes on the newly-completed first section of the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal with the loss of 84 lives.The Times (London) 1810-11-19 8144: 3. 19 December – Frigates and are wrecked near Dunbar. Monach Islands abandoned for the first time, due to overgrazing. Edinburgh Theological College founded to train clergy for the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Births 5 February – John Muir, Indologist (died 1882) 2 April – Thomas Balfour, politician (died 1838) 19 June – Charles Wilson, architect (died 1863) August – William Miller, poet (died 1872) 19 August – Edward Ellice, Liberal politician (died 1880) 21 August – John Inglis, judge (died 1891) 22 September – John Brown, physician and essayist (died 1882) 12 October – Alexander Bain, inventor (died 1877) 8 December – John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh (died 1883) 17 December – Andrew Findlater, editor (died 1885)
Deaths 17 May – Robert Tannahill, "weaver poet" (born 1774) 8 December – John Finlay, poet (born 1782) Probable date – William Cruickshank, military surgeon, chemist and inventor (born c1741)
The arts Jane Porter's historical novel about William Wallace, The Scottish Chiefs, is published. Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is published.
See also 1810 in Ireland
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