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List of events
Events from the year 1783 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
5 April –
Andrew Geddes , portrait painter and etcher (died 1844 in London)
8 April –
John Claudius Loudon , horticulturalist (died 1843 in London)
24 April –
James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford (died 1869 in England)
11 June –
James Baillie Fraser , travel writer (died
1856 )
15 June –
Donald Mackenzie , explorer in North America (died
1851 in the United States )
27 June –
Adam Anderson , physicist (died
1846 )
6 September –
George Hogarth , newspaper editor, music critic, musicologist and father-in-law of Charles Dickens (died 1870 in London)
22 October –
James Henry Keith Stewart , Tory Member of Parliament (died 1836)
John Finlaison , actuary (died 1860 in London)
William Glen , poet (died
1826 )
Peter Grant (Pàdraig Grannd nan Oran) , Baptist minister and songwriter in Gaelic (died
1867 )
Norman Macleod (Caraid nan Gaidheal) , Church of Scotland minister and writer in Gaelic (died
1862 )
Richard Poole , physician, psychiatrist, and phrenologist (died
1871 )
Deaths
The arts
The Glasgow engraving and publishing firm
J. Lumsden and Son , which becomes known for children's books, is founded.
References
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