1830 in Scotland

Events from the year 1830 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt until December; then Francis Jeffrey
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope; then Henry Cockburn

Judiciary

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

Events

 * 19 March – the suspension bridge at Montrose partly collapses due to movement of a crowd watching a boat race from it, with the loss of at least 4 lives.
 * 17 May – meteorite falls on the North Inch at Perth.
 * 27 May – Rev. Alexander Duff arrives in Calcutta as the Church of Scotland's first missionary to India.
 * 13 July – Alexander Duff co-founds the General Assembly's Institution, the modern-day Scottish Church College, in Calcutta.
 * November – Wellington Suspension Bridge over River Dee at Aberdeen opened to pedestrians.
 * 16 December – Bridge of Don at Aberdeen opened.
 * Twin-hulled iron paddle steamer Lord Dundas built for service on the Forth and Clyde Canal.
 * McVitie's founded as McVitie & Price's biscuit bakery in Rose Street, Edinburgh.
 * Annandale distillery opened.

Births

 * Early – Andrew Halliday, journalist and playwright (died 1877 in London)
 * 5 February – Lieutenant General James John McLeod Innes, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1907)
 * 5 March – Charles Wyville Thomson, marine zoologist (died 1882)
 * 15 March – John Ferguson, politician (died 1906 in Australia)
 * 5 April
 * (probable date) Robert Francis Fairlie, steam locomotive designer (died 1885 in London)
 * Alexander Muir, songwriter (died 1906 in Canada)
 * 16 July – Alexander Carnegie Kirk, mechanical engineer (died 1892)
 * 3 September – Lewis Campbell, classicist (died 1908 in Switzerland)
 * 21 September – John Holms, textile mill owner and Liberal politician (died 1891)
 * 22 October – Arthur John Burns, woollen mill owner and politician in Otago (died 1901 in New Zealand)
 * 30 October – Eliza Brightwen, naturalist (died 1906 in England)
 * John Crawford, sculptor (died 1861)

Deaths

 * 14 January – The Right Reverend Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh (born 1766, near Dublin)
 * 20 February – Robert Anderson, literary editor, biographer and critic (born 1750)
 * 7 April – Henry Bell, engineer who introduced the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe (born 1767)
 * 3 July – John Campbell, advocate and politician (born 1798)
 * 16 December – Sir James Donaldson printer and newspaper publisher, who bequeathed a large part of his estate to the founding of Donaldson's Hospital (born 1751)

The arts

 * Thomas Aird publishes his narrative poem The Captive of Fez.
 * Sir Walter Scott publishes the plays Auchindrane and The Doom of Devorgoil.
 * David Wilkie appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV
 * Completion of publication of the Edinburgh Encyclopædia, commenced in 1808
 * 16 December – Felix Mendelssohn completes composition of his concert overture The Hebrides as Die einsame Insel ("The Lonely Island").