1837 in Scotland
Events from the year 1837 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 1 January - Hercules Linton, surveyor, designer, shipbuilder and antiquarian; designer of the Cutty Sark (died 1900)
- 7 January - James Key Caird, jute manufacturer and philanthropist (died 1916)
- January - Daniel Cottier, artist and designer (died 1891)
- 7 February - James Murray, lexicographer (died 1915 in Oxford)
- 16 February - Asher Asher, physician and promoter of Jewish causes (died 1889 in London)
- 24 March - George Henry Mackenzie, chess master (died 1891 in the United States)
- 25 March - Francis Farquharson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1875 in England)
- 3 May - Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, Presbyterian minister and Gaelic scholar (died 1907)
- 14 June - John Thomson, pioneering photographer, geographer and traveller (died 1921)
- 17 June - Alexander Skene, gynaecologist (died 1900 in the United States)
- 4 July - Agnes McLaren, physician (died 1913 in France)
- 8 July - Donald Dinnie, Highland games strongman (died 1916)
- 11 July - John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, lawyer and Liberal politician (died 1905)
- 10 November - William Bain Scarth, businessman and politician in Canada (died 1902 in Canada)
- 13 November - John McClure, admiral in the Imperial Chinese Navy (died 1920)
- 2 December - Joseph Bell, surgeon, an inspiration for Sherlock Holmes (died 1911)
- 17 December - William Harkness, astronomer (died 1903 in the United States)
- 29 December - Francis Carmichael Bruce, businessman and politician in Ontario (died 1928 in Canada)
- John Dudgeon, medical missionary (died 1901 in China)
- Robert Farquharson, physician and Liberal politician (died 1918)
- Hughie Fraser, politician in South Australia (died 1900 in Australia)
- David Greig, landowner
- Eliza Newton, actress (died 1882 in the United States)
- Douglas Argyll Robertson, ophthalmologist (died 1909)
Deaths
- 4 or 11 January - John MacKenzie, physician and friend of Robert Burns
- 16 January - Robert Macnish, surgeon, physician, philosopher and writer (born 1802)
- 18 January - James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, army officer, politician and freemason (born 1762 in England)
- 19 February - Sir Hugh Cleghorn, first colonial secretary to Ceylon (born 1752)
- 8 May - Robert Heriot Barclay, commander in the Royal Navy (born 1786)
- 1 August - Walter Geikie, painter (born 1795)
- 17 August - John Donald Carrick, journalist (born 1787)
- 24 August - George Watson, portrait painter (born 1767)
- 15 September - William Ritchie, physicist (born c.1790)
- 22 October - Sir David Erskine, dramatist and antiquary (born 1772)
- 3 December - Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, peer (born 1777) (Barony of Solway becomes extinct)
- 7 December - Robert Nicoll, radical journalist and poet (born 1814)
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