1813 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
• Solicitor General for Scotland – David Monypenny; then 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

• 1 April – whaler Oscar wrecked off Aberdeen with the loss of 44 lives.
• 15 April – foundation stone of new harbour at Newhaven, Edinburgh, laid.
• October
• * Completion of road bridge at Potarch by Thomas Telford; his bridge at Invermoriston is also completed this year.
• * Probable completion of cast-iron footbridge over Esk on Buccleuch estate near Langholm.
• The first Kirkcaldy whaler, The Earl Percy, sails north to the Davis Strait.
• Glasgow weavers fail in an attempt to secure higher wages.
• Robert Owen obtains control of the cotton spinning mills at New Lanark and publishes A New View of Society, or Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character.

  Births

• 30 January – George Gilfillan, writer and poet
• 18 March –
• * Thomas Graham Balfour, physician
• * William Calder Marshall, sculptor
• 19 March – David Livingstone, missionary and explorer
• 13 April – Duncan Farquharson Gregory, mathematician
• 14 May – John Hosack, lawyer and historian
• 17 May? – Eliza Rennie, author
• 18 May – Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, judge
• 21 May – Robert Murray M'Cheyne, clergyman
• 27 May – William McNaught, steam engineer
• 21 June – William Edmondstoune Aytoun, lawyer and poet
• 28 July – James Newlands, municipal engineer
• 10 August – Archibald Smith, mathematician and lawyer
• 6 September – Edward Balfour, surgeon and orientalist
• 13 September – Daniel MacMillan, publisher
• 30 September – John Rae, Arctic explorer and physician
• November – John Stuart, genealogist
• 13 December –
• * James R. Ballantyne, orientalist
• * David Brandon, architect
• * George Bryson Sr., businessman and politician in Quebec
• 18 December – John Edgar Gregan, architect
• John Bell-Irving, businessman in Hong Kong
• James Colquhoun Campbell, Bishop of Bangor
• Benjamin Connor, steam locomotive designer
• Anthony Inglis, shipbuilder
• John Kennedy, Congregational minister and theologian
• William Logan, temperance campaigner
• Letitia MacTavish Hargrave, born Letitia MacTavish, pioneer in Canada
• Daniel M'Naghten, assassin
• George Tosh, metallurgist

  Deaths

• 5 January – Alexander Fraser Tytler, judge and historian
• 15 February – Francis Home, physician
• 15 March – Janet Richmond, born Janet Little, "The Scots Milkmaid", Scots language poet
• 15 April – Alexander Murray, linguist
• 22 June – Allan Burns, surgeon
• 8 July – William Craig, Lord Craig, judge
• 23 August – Alexander Wilson, ornithologist in America
• 11 October – Robert Kerr, scientific writer and translator
• 28 October – William Dudgeon, farmer and songwriter

  The arts

• James Hogg's poem The Queen's Wake is published.