1802 in Scotland

Events from the year 1802 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Charles Hope
 * 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 Eskgrove

Events

 * January – Mitchell's Hospital Old Aberdeen admits its first residents.
 * 2 October – first Start Point lighthouse on Sanday, Orkney, completed by Robert Stevenson.
 * 10 October – the reforming quarterly The Edinburgh Review is first published by Archibald Constable.
 * November – the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow is established as the Glasgow Philosophical Society "for the improvement of the Arts and Sciences".
 * The planned village of Lybster is established by the local landowner, General Patrick Sinclair.
 * The University of Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society is established as a student society.
 * John Playfair publishes Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth in Edinburgh, popularising James Hutton's theory of geology.
 * John Home publishes History of the Rebellion of 1745.
 * Malcolm Laing publishes History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms.

Births

 * 1 April – William Sharpey, anatomist and physiologist (died 1880 in London)
 * 20 May – David Octavius Hill, painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
 * 10 July – Robert Chambers, publisher, geologist and writer (died 1871)
 * 16 July – Humphrey Crum-Ewing, Liberal politician (died 1887)
 * 20 August – Robert Ferguson, Liberal politician (died 1868)
 * 24 August (bapt.) – John Macgregor, shipbuilder (died 1858)
 * 28 August – Thomas Aird, poet (died 1876)
 * 19 September – Henry Dundas Trotter, admiral (died 1859 in London)
 * 10 October – Hugh Miller, geologist (suicide 1856)
 * Thomas Boyd, banker in New South Wales (died 1860 in Australia)

Deaths

 * 21 January – John Moore, physician and writer (born 1729; died in London)
 * 26 February – Alexander Geddes, Roman Catholic theologian and scholar (born 1737; died in London)
 * John Mackay, botanist (born 1772)
 * Donald MacNicol, clergyman and writer (born 1735)

The arts

 * 29 January – Greenock Burns Club holds the first Burns dinner, in Alloway.
 * Walter Scott's collection of Scottish ballads Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border begins publication by James Ballantyne in Kelso.