1810 in Scotland

Events from the year 1810 in Scotland.

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.
 * 19 December – Frigates HMS Nymphe (1780) and HMS Pallas (1804) 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)
 * 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)
 * Andrew Findlater, editor (died 1885)
 * John Notman, architect in the United States (died 1865)

Deaths

 * 17 May – Robert Tannahill, "weaver poet" (born 1774)
 * John Finlay, poet (born 1782)
 * Probable date – William Cruickshank, military surgeon, chemist and inventor

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.