title: 1795 in Scotland
text: # 1795 in Scotland
  
  Events from the year 1795 in Scotland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Law officers
  
  * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston
  * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair
  
  ### Judiciary
  
  * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth
  * Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
  * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield
  
  ## Events
  
  * 18 November – the River Clyde, in spate, floods the centre of Glasgow and brings down the recently erected bridge at the foot of the Saltmarket.
  * Gallowgate Barracks in Glasgow are built.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 12 March – William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and politician in Canada (died 1861 in Canada)
  * 25 May – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the (uncompleted) Scott Monument (died 1844)
  * 19 June – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, pioneer of hypnotherapy (died 1860 in England)
  * 6 September – Frances Wright, freethinker (died 1852 in the United States)
  * 12 October – Janet Hamilton, née Thomson, poet and essayist (died 1873)
  * 10 November – Walter Geikie, painter (died 1837)
  * 4 December – Thomas Carlyle, historian, philosopher and essayist (died 1881 in England)
  * 10 December – Sir George Burns, shipowner (died 1890)
  * 21 December – Robert Moffat, missionary (died 1883)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 22 February – Alexander Gerard, philosopher (born 1728)
  * 19 May – James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson (born 1740)
  * 23 June – James Craig, architect, planner of the New Town, Edinburgh (born 1744)
  * 24 June – William Smellie, encyclopedist and naturalist (born 1740)
  * 10 December – John Johnstone, nabob with the East India Company and landowner (born 1734)
  
  ## The arts
  
  * Archibald Constable starts in business for himself as a dealer in rare books in Edinburgh, origin of the publishing business which enters the 21st century as Constable & Robinson.
  
  ## Sport
  
  * 17 January – Duddingston Curling Society formally organised.
  