1847 in Scotland

Events

Organisations established

• United Presbyterian Church of Scotland

Organisations disestablished

Births

• February 13- Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, Concrete Bob, founded the major construction firm now known as Sir Robert McAlpine (d. 1934)
• March 3- Alexander Graham Bell, scientist and inventor (d. 1922)
• April 27- Archibald Orr-Ewing, former MP (d. 1893)
• August 3- John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC, former Governor General of Canada (d. 1934)
• September 12- John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, KT, Rector of the University of St Andrews (d. 1900)
• John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie, KT, Liberal politician, former Secretary for Scotland (d. 1887)

Deaths

• May 31- Thomas Chalmers, mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland (b. 1780)
• Archibald Simpson, architect (b. 1790)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history