1795 in Scotland

Law officers • Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas of Arniston • Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Blair Judiciary • Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Succoth • Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose • Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Braxfield == Events ==

• 18 November – the River Clyde, in spate, floods the centre of Glasgow and brings down the recently erected bridge at the foot of the Saltmarket. • Gallowgate Barracks in Glasgow are built. == Births ==

• 12 March – William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and politician in Canada (died 1861 in Canada) • 25 May – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the (uncompleted) Scott Monument (died 1844) • 19 June – James Braid, surgeon and scientist, pioneer of hypnotherapy (died 1860 in England) • 6 September – Frances Wright, freethinker (died 1852 in the United States) • 12 October – Janet Hamilton, née Thomson, poet and essayist (died 1873) • 10 November – Walter Geikie, painter (died 1837) • 4 December – Thomas Carlyle, historian, philosopher and essayist (died 1881 in England) • 10 December – Sir George Burns, shipowner (died 1890) • 21 December – Robert Moffat, missionary (died 1883) == Deaths ==

• 22 February – Alexander Gerard, philosopher (born 1728) • 19 May – James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson (born 1740) • 23 June – James Craig, architect, planner of the New Town, Edinburgh (born 1744) • 24 June – William Smellie, encyclopedist and naturalist (born 1740) • 10 December – John Johnstone, nabob with the East India Company and landowner (born 1734) ==The arts==

• Archibald Constable starts in business for himself as a dealer in rare books in Edinburgh, origin of the publishing business which enters the 21st century as Constable & Robinson. == Sport ==

• 17 January – Duddingston Curling Society formally organised. == See also ==