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List of events
Events from the year 1805 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
26 January –
Patrick Fairbairn , theologian (died
1874 )
30 January –
Edward Sang , mathematician (died
1890 )
8 March –
Rayner Stephens , radical reformer and Methodist minister (died 1879 in Stalybridge)
26 March –
Alexander John Scott , dissident theologian and educationalist (died 1866 in Switzerland)
18 May –
James Paterson journalist and antiquary (died
1876 )
26 May –
Joseph Grant , poet (died
1835 )
3 August (bapt.) –
William McCombie , agriculturalist (died
1880 )
8 August –
Henry Craik , evangelical preacher and Hebraist (died 1866 in Bristol)
11 October –
James Salmon , architect (died
1888 )
28 October –
John Thomson , classical composer (died
1841 )
November –
Horatio McCulloch , landscape painter (died
1867 )
10 December –
William Anderson , writer (died 1866 in London)
13 December –
Johann von Lamont , astronomer and physicist (died
1879 in Germany )
21 December –
Thomas Graham , chemist (died 1869 in Scotland)
Alexander Forrester , educationalist in
Nova Scotia (died
1869 in Canada )
James Merry , ironmaster, Liberal politician and racehorse breeder (died
1877 )
David Boswell Reid , physician, chemist and "grandfather of air conditioning" (died
1863 in the United States )
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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