British Army general (born 1768; died on active service at Corunna) 16 January – John Moore, British Army general (born 1761; killed in Battle of Corunna) 24 January – James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (born 1729; died in London) 25 February – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, colonial governor (born 1730; died in Ramsgate) 10 May – Andrew Bell, engraver, co-founder of the Encyclopædia Britannica (born 1726) 3 August – Andrew Mackay, mathematician (born 1760; died in London) 29 August – Robert Melvill, British Army general and antiquary (born 1723) 8 October – James Elphinston, philologist (born 1721; died in London) 18 December – Alexander Adam, classical scholar (born 1741) Sir William Douglas, 1st Baronet, landowner and industrialist See also 1809 in the United Kingdom References Years of the 19th century in Scotland 1800s in Scotland