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List of events
Events from the year 1799 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
6 February –
George Arnott Walker-Arnott , botanist (died
1868 )
13 February –
Robert Willis , physician (died 1878 in London)
17 February –
John Baird , evangelical minister (died
1861 )
8 June –
John Wilson , promoter of
British Israelism (died 1870 in England)
25 June –
David Douglas , botanist (died
1834 in
Hawaii )
6 September –
Peter Allan , eccentric (died 1849 in Co. Durham)
8 September –
James Bowman Lindsay , inventor (died
1862 )
5 November –
Robert Carruthers , writer (died
1878 )
18 December –
Charles Macfarlane , travel writer and novelist (died 1858 in London)
21 December –
David Don , botanist (died 1841 in London)
Undated
Approximate date –
William Simson , painter best known as a landscapist (died
1847 )
Deaths
5 January –
John Swinton, Lord Swinton , judge (born
1723 )
19 January –
Peter Williamson ("Indian Peter"), tavern keeper, printer, postmaster, inventor, showman and sometime slave in America (born
1730 )
26 January
26 May –
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo , judge and comparative linguist (born
1714 )
30 May –
Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield , hanging judge (born
1722 )
1 June –
James Tassie , engraver (born
1735 )
14 June – Sir
Patrick Warrender , 3rd Baronet, of Lochend, army officer and politician (born
1739 )
15 August –
Duncan Davidson , merchant and politician (born
1733 )
6 December –
Joseph Black , physician and chemist (born
1728 )
William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, tobacco merchant
Lachlan McGillivray , fur trader and planter in the
Province of Georgia (born 1718/19)
See also
References
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