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List of events
Events from the year 1808 in
Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
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22 January –
James Fergusson, architectural historian (died 1886 in London)
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29 February –
Hugh Falconer, geologist, botanist,
paleontologist and
paleoanthropologist (died 1865 in London)
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9 May –
John Scott Russell, shipbuilder (died 1882 on the Isle of Wight)
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11 June –
James Ballantine, painter (died
1877)
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16 June –
James Frederick Ferrier,
metaphysical and
epistemological philosopher (died
1864)
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2 July –
Thomas Simpson, Arctic explorer (probable suicide
1840 in the United States)
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19 August –
James Nasmyth, mechanical engineer (died 1890 in England)
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24 August –
William Lindsay Alexander, church leader (died
1884)
- c. 7 or 8 September –
William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe),
Gaelic poet (died
1870)
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15 September –
John Hutton Balfour, botanist (died
1884)
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21 September –
Evan MacColl, poet writing in
Gaelic and
English (died
1898 in Canada)
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19 December –
Horatius Bonar,
Free Church minister and hymnodist (died
1889)
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James Gall, evangelical minister, astronomer and cartographer (died
1895)
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David Moore, born Muir, botanist (died
1879 in Ireland)
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David Rhind, architect (died
1883)
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James Aitken Wylie, Free Church minister and religious historian (died
1890)
Deaths
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20 January –
Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho (born
1749)
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28 January –
James Finlayson, minister of the
Church of Scotland (born
1758)
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13 February –
William Fullarton, British Army officer, agriculturalist and colonial governor (born
1754; died in London)
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19 June –
Alexander Dalrymple, hydrographer (born
1737)
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2 July –
Robert Arnot,
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (born
1744)
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21 August –
John Adamson, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (born
1742)
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23 August –
Robert Small, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, mathematician and astronomer (born
1732)
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5 September –
John Home, Episcopalian minister, playwright and writer (born
1722)
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20 September –
John Elliot, Royal Navy officer (born
1732)
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15 October –
James Anderson of Hermiston, agriculturalist (born
1739)
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24 October –
Francis Wemyss-Charteris, landowner (born
1723)
The arts
See also
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