1833 in Scotland

Events from the year 1833 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Francis Jeffrey
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – 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

 * 16 March – at an auction of the art collection of John Clerk, Lord Eldin (died 1832) at his home in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, the floor collapses, killing the banker Alexander Smith.
 * April – Glasgow Necropolis opened.
 * 10 April – St Peter's RC Primary School, Aberdeen, founded.
 * 28 August –– the Slavery Abolition Act receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire. A £20 million fund is established to compensate slaveowners, many of whom are in Scotland.
 * 7 October – the Edinburgh Emancipation Society, Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society, Glasgow Emancipation Society and Glasgow Ladies' Emancipation Society are formed in support of abolitionism.
 * 30 October – Edinburgh Town Council first allows newspaper reporters to attend its meetings.
 * Burgh Police (Scotland) Act permits burghs to establish themselves as police burghs, having powers to provide policing and to pave and light streets.
 * Glengoyne distillery is established as the Burnfoot distillery by George Connell on the Highland line near Dumgoyne.
 * John Menzies is established as a newsagent in Edinburgh.
 * Madras College is established in St Andrews by merger of the grammar and English schools under the bequest of locally-born educationalist Rev. Dr. Andrew Bell (died 1832), promoter of the 'Madras system' of education.
 * Chemist Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law.
 * Statue of William Pitt the Younger (died 1806) erected in George Street, Edinburgh.
 * The Royal Perth Golfing Society gains its royal patronage.

Births

 * 1 January – Robert Lawson, architect (died 1902 in New Zealand)
 * 24 February – William Howie Wylie, journalist and Baptist (died 1891)
 * 20 March – Daniel Dunglas Home, medium (died 1886 in France)
 * 16 April – John Malcolm, 1st Baron Malcolm, soldier and politician (died 1902 in France)
 * 22 April – John Waldie, politician in Ontario (died 1907 in Canada)
 * 16 July – Donald Reid, landowner, businessman and politician in Otago (died 1919 in New Zealand)
 * 26 July – Alexander Henry Rhind, antiquarian and Egyptologist (died 1863 in Italy)
 * 12 August – Aylmer Cameron, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1909 in England)
 * 12 November – George Paul Chalmers, painter (killed 1878)
 * 14 December – Alexander Young, mechanical engineer and government official in Hawaii (died 1910 in Honolulu)

Deaths

 * 3 May – James Bell, geographical writer (born 1769)
 * 29 May – William Marshall, fiddle player and composer (born 1748)
 * August – Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone, soldier, colonial governor and fraudster (born 1767; died in France)
 * 10 October – Thomas Atkinson, poet, bookseller and politician (born c.1801; died at sea)
 * 11 November – James Grant, naval officer (born 1772; died in France)
 * 30 November – William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, lawyer and antiquarian (born 1743)

The arts

 * May – the final revised edition of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, edited by Scott's son-in-law J. G. Lockhart, begins publication.
 * Allan Cunningham's poem The Maid of Elvar is published.