1814 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Archibald Colquhoun
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Maconochie

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

  Events

• From midyear – Highland Clearances: Patrick Sellar begins mass expulsion of crofting tenants from Strathnaver at Grummore to make way for sheep farming as factor for the Marquess and Marchioness of Stafford.
• 7 July – Walter Scott's Waverley, his first prose fiction and one of the first significant historical novels in English, set during the Jacobite rising of 1745, is published anonymously by Archibald Constable in Edinburgh, selling out in two days.
• October – Thomas Telford's Lovat Bridge, the first over the River Beauly, is opened.
• November – Thomas Telford's cast iron Craigellachie Bridge over the River Spey is opened.
• Thomas Telford's Craighouse pier on Jura is constructed.
• Building of the industrial village of Friockheim in Angus is begun.
• Gartnavel Royal Hospital is established as the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum.
• Glasgow Medical Society is established.
• Chapel of St Mary's, designed by James Gillespie Graham, opened in Edinburgh, the origin of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.
• St George's Church, Charlotte Square, New Town, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid after Robert Adam, is completed.
• William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde, erected.
• Mary Brunton's novel Discipline, set in the Highlands, is published.
• Ayrshire cattle recognised as a distinct breed by the Highland and Agricultural Society.

  Births

• 7 January – Robert Nicoll, radical journalist and poet
• 31 January – Andrew Ramsay, geologist
• 27 February – Robert Turnbull Macpherson, artist and photographer working in Rome
• 20 March – John Goodsir, pathologist
• 28 March – John Thomas Rochead, architect
• 10 April – Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, judge and politician
• 7 May – George Heriot Swanston, map engraver
• 21 June – Samuel Halkett, librarian
• 8 July – Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird, banker, Liberal politician and evangelical clergyman
• 26 July – John Arnott, entrepreneur in Ireland
• 27 September – John Burnet, architect
• 20 December – William McGill, physician and Member of Provincial Parliament

  Deaths

• 3 January – James Townsend Oswald, Member of Parliament
• 28 January – William Dalrymple, moderator of the Church of Scotland
• 15 June – Robert Findlay, minister
• 8 July – John Chisholm, bishop of the Roman Catholic church
• 3 November – William Richardson, classicist and literary scholar
• John Adams, educational writer born 1750?)
• Alexander Cummings, inventor
• William Kerr, gardener and botanist
• Thomas Smith, lighting engineer