1827 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George IV

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• – Robert Wilson of Dunbar demonstrates a screw propeller.
• 14 August – the foundation stone of the George IV Bridge in Edinburgh is laid as authorised by an Improvement Act of this year.
• 29 November – Burke and Hare sell their first corpse for dissection by Robert Knox in Edinburgh.
• The Loretto School is established in Musselburgh by Rev. Thomas Langhorne.
• The Argyll Arcade opens in Glasgow.
• Buchan Ness lighthouse, designed by Robert Stevenson, is first illuminated.
• George Ballantine sets up a grocery store in Edinburgh, the predecessor of Ballantine's whisky blenders.
• Farmer's son Rev. Patrick Bell produces a model reaping machine.
• New spa building at Moffat built.
• The Clunies-Ross family first settles on the Cocos Islands.

  Births

• 7 January – Sandford Fleming, engineer and surveyor, "father of time zones"
• 4 March – Henrietta Keddie, novelist
• 27 May – Thomas Keith, surgeon and amateur photographer
• 18 June
• * Alexander Balloch Grosart, Presbyterian minister and literary editor
• * Andrew Robertson, merchant in Montreal
• 16 July – William McEwan, brewer and politician
• 25 August – William Watson, Baron Watson, Lord Advocate
• James Barnet, New South Wales Government Architect
• Gilbert Beith, merchant and Liberal politician

  Deaths

• 28 January – George Jardine, professor
• 13 April – Hugh Clapperton, explorer
• 21 July – Archibald Constable, publisher
• 9 August – George Fergusson, Lord Hermand, judge
• 28 August – Lord Archibald Hamilton, politician
• 24 September – Hugh Baird, canal engineer
• 4 November – James Hyslop, poet

  The arts

• 23 February – Sir Walter Scott's authorship of the Waverley Novels is first publicly acknowledged at an Edinburgh Theatrical Fund dinner. Also this year he publishes the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate in Edinburgh.
• c. June – Robert Pollok's blank verse The Course of Time is published in Edinburgh by William Blackwood shortly before the poet's death on 15 September aged about 28 near Southampton while en route to Italy for his health; the first edition alone sells 12,000 copies.
• William Tennant's Scots language poem Papistry Stormed is published.