Events from the year 1836 in Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
13 January – Alexander Whyte , minister of the Free Church of Scotland and theologian (died 1921 )12 February – John Gerard Anderson , educationalist in Queensland (died 1911 in Australia )21 February – Alexander Dickson , botanist (died 1887 )18 March – James Laidlaw Maxwell , Presbyterian missionary in Taiwan (died 1921)31 March – William Dingwall Fordyce , Liberal politician (died 1875 )5 April – John Scott , botanist (died 1880 )24 May – William Mortimer Clark , Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1915)9 June – Thomas McCall Anderson , physician (died 1908 )26 June – Aeneas Chisholm (Bishop of Aberdeen) , Roman Catholic priest (died 1918 )3 August – Colin Scott-Moncrieff , irrigation engineer in India and Egypt and Under-Secretary for Scotland (died 1916 in England)11 August – Hugh Gilzean-Reid , journalist and Liberal politician (died 1911 in London)7 September – Henry Campbell-Bannerman , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1908 in 10 Downing Street , London)23 September – Samuel Chisholm , Liberal politician and Lord Provost of Glasgow (died 1923 )28 October – James Edward Tierney Aitchison , surgeon and botanist (died 1898)16 November – David Binning Monro , classical scholar (died 1905)4 December (probable date) – Duncan MacGregor Crerar , poet (died 1916 )
John Gregorson Campbell , minister of the church and folklorist (died 1891 )William Baxter Collier Fyfe , genre and portrait painter (died 1882 in London)Jessie Seymour Irvine , psalmist (died 1887 )William Angus Knight , philosopher and literary scholar (died 1916)John Rhind , architect (died 1889 )Andrew Strath , golfer (died 1868)
Deaths
15 February – John Gillies , Historiographer Royal for Scotland (born 1747 )24 February – Henry Liston , minister of the church and inventor (born 1771 )4 April – John Grieve , poet (born 1781 )23 June – James Mill , historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (born 1773 ; died in London)August – Sir John Hope , British Army officer (born 1765 )
21 October – Donald Gregory , antiquarian (born 1803 )26 November – John Loudon McAdam , civil engineer and road-builder (born 1756 )30 December – James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose , nobleman, politician and Lord Justice General (born 1755 )John Heaviside Clark , artist (born c.1771)
The arts
See also
References
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