1815 in Scotland

Events from the year 1815 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Maconochie

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
 * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

Events

 * February/March – foundation stone of Montrose Academy laid.
 * 18 June – Battle of Waterloo: Ensign Charles Ewart of the Royal Scots Greys captures the French Imperial Eagle standard.
 * 1 July – Union Bank of Scotland opens.
 * 19 September – foundation stones for Regent Bridge and Calton Jail in Edinburgh laid.
 * The Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on Calton Hill, is dedicated.
 * Hackness Martello Tower and Battery and Crockness Martello tower in Orkney are completed.
 * Dunans and Ferness Bridges and Avoch harbour are completed to the designs of Thomas Telford.
 * Glenfinnan Monument erected to mark the landing of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" at the start of the Jacobite rising of 1745 to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
 * Armadale Castle on Skye is built in the style of Scottish Baronial architecture to the design of James Gillespie Graham.
 * A Jury Court as a division of the Court of Session is introduced.
 * Regius Professorships at the University of Glasgow in Midwifery and Surgery are established by King George III.
 * The Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance Society opens to business as Scotland's first mutual life insurance office.
 * On Islay, Ardbeg distillery begins commercial production and Laphroaig distillery is established by Donald and Alexander Johnston.
 * The Clyde Shipping Company is set up by John Henderson, William Croil, Donald McPhee and George Jardine Kidston to provide services by paddle steamer.
 * Pringle of Scotland, knitwear manufacturer, is established by Robert Pringle in the Borders.
 * John Fletcher Macfarlan takes over the family apothecary business in Edinburgh, the predecessor of MacFarlan Smith, and begins to manufacture laudanum.
 * Aberdeen Savings Bank is formed.

Births

 * 11 January
 * John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (died 1891 in Ottawa)
 * David Stevenson, lighthouse engineer (died 1886)
 * 22 January – William Brodie, sculptor (died 1881)
 * 25 March – George Thomson, shipbuilder (died 1866)
 * 1 April – William Chalmers Burns, evangelical missionary to China (died 1868)
 * 19 May
 * Kate Dickens, née Catherine Hogarth, wife of Charles Dickens (died 1879 in London)
 * Hugh Fraser, retailer (died 1873)
 * 11 June – W McEwan, cricketer (died 1862 in Australia)
 * 12 June – James Valentine, photographer (died 1879)
 * 29 August – James Fenton, railway engineer (died 1863)
 * 20 December – James Legge, Congregationalist missionary to China (died 1897 in Oxford)
 * Thomas Stuart Smith, painter and benefactor (died 1869 in Avignon)

Deaths

 * 14 January – William Creech, publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (born 1745)
 * 4 February – John Ferriar, physician and writer (born 1761)
 * 9 February – Claudius Buchanan, theologian, Church of England missionary to India (born 1766)
 * 23 February – William Duff, Presbyterian minister and writer on psychology (born 1732)
 * 10 April – William Roxburgh, Scottish surgeon and botanist (born 1751)
 * 26 August – John Spalding, politician (born 1763)
 * 8 September – Andrew Graham, naturalist
 * 28 September – Gilbert Gerard, theological writer (born 1760)
 * 9 December – Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, banker and steamboat promoter (born 1730)
 * Thomas Keith, soldier (born c.1793)

The arts

 * Christian Isobel Johnstone's novel Clan-Albin: A National Tale is published.
 * Robert Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth, Gaelic folklore collected in 1691/92, is first published.
 * Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lord of the Isles and anonymous novel Guy Mannering are published.
 * 6-year-old Edgar Allan Poe attends school in Irvine, North Ayrshire.