1835 in Scotland
Events from the year 1835 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 28 January - Robert Herbert Story, minister of the Church of Scotland and Principal of the University of Glasgow (died 1907)
- February - James Davis, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1893)
- 9 February - John Malcolmson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1902 in London)
- 3 March - William Fraser Rae, journalist and author (died 1905 in England)
- 19 March - Edmund Montgomery, philosopher, scientist and physician (died 1911 in the United States)
- 29 March - James Taylor, tea planter (died 1892 in Ceylon)
- 5 April - Donald Cameron, 24th Lochiel, diplomat and Conservative politician (died 1905)
- 3 May - Edward Hargitt, ornithologist and landscape painter (died 1895)
- 18 May - Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, soldier and clan chief (died 1936)
- 28 May - James Small, laird (died 1900)
- 17 June - James Brunton Stephens, poet (died 1902 in Australia)
- 20 June - Andrew Tennant, pastoralist (died 1913 in Australia)
- 11 July - John Macvicar Anderson, architect (died 1915 in London)
- 15 July - Louisa Stevenson, campaigner for women's rights (died 1908)
- 21 July - Robert Munro, archaeologist (died 1920)
- 27 July - William Boyd Stewart, minister of the Baptist church and educationalist (died 1912 in Canada)
- 18 August - Robert Murdoch Smith, military engineer, archaeologist and diplomat (died 1900)
- 5 September - Thomas Cadell, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1919)
- 2 October - James Stirling, steam locomotive engineer (died 1917 in Ashford, Kent)
- 25 October - William McTaggart, marine painter (died 1910)
- 15 November - Archibald Scott Cleghorn, businessman who marries into the royal family of Hawaii (died 1910 in Hawaii)
- 25 November - Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philanthropist (died 1919 in the United States)
- 13 December - Archibald Hamilton Charteris, minister of the Church of Scotland and theologian (died 1906)
- 28 December - Archibald Geikie, geologist (died 1924 in England)
- James Park, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1858 in India)
- Mungo Park, golfer (died 1904)
Deaths
- 14 April - Joseph Grant, poet (born 1805)
- 5 August - Thomas M'Crie the elder, minister of the church and historian (born 1772)
- 16 September - Henry Belfrage, minister of the Secession church (born 1774)
- 2 October - John Mackay Wilson, writer (born 1804)
- 1 November - William Motherwell, poet (born 1797)
- 9 November - Michael Scott, author and autobiographer who wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cringle (born 1789)
- 21 November - James Hogg, "the Ettrick shepherd", poet and novelist (born 1770)
- 21 December - Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, agriculturalist, politician, economist and statistician (born 1754)
The Arts
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