- Source: 1762 in Scotland
Events from the year 1762 in Scotland.
Incumbents
= Law officers
=Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery jointly with Francis Garden
= Judiciary
=Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
Lord Justice General – Marquess of Tweeddale to 9 December; then vacant
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald
Events
10 March – William Robertson is elected Principal of the University of Edinburgh, an office which he will hold until his death in 1793, contributing to the Scottish Enlightenment.
c. April – new building for Perth Academy occupied.
5 November – John Watson's Institution established in Edinburgh (school closed 1975).
Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.
Economic crisis.
Joseph Black first makes known his discoveries on latent heat, in Glasgow.
Births
31 January – Lachlan Macquarie, British Army officer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1824 in London)
2 February – William Balmain, naval surgeon and civil administrator in New South Wales (died 1803 in London)
4 February – James Millar, physician and encyclopædist (died 1827)
30 April – George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore, politician (died 1836)
17 July – Alexander Crombie, Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher (died 1840 in London)
11 September – Joanna Baillie, poet and dramatist (died 1851 in London)
28 September – James Horsburgh, hydrographer of the East Indies (died 1836 in Kent)
Approximate date – James Bisset, artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (died 1832 in the English midlands)
Deaths
6 May – Sir Alexander Lindsay, 3rd Baronet (born 1683)
9 December – John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale (born 1695)
21 December – Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, Jacobite (born 1678)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Astronomer Royal
- George Anson (1731–1789)
- Lord Hardwicke
- Kerajaan Britania Raya (1707–1800)
- James Macpherson
- Anaspida
- Mercusuar Horsburgh
- David Graeme (perwira Angkatan Darat Britania Raya)
- Alkitab Versi Raja James
- Roti lapis
- 1762 in Scotland
- 1762
- Scotland
- Latent heat
- Balmain
- 1762 in Canada
- John Inglis
- List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1762
- 1762 in literature
- James VI and I
