- Source: 1777 in Scotland
Events from the year 1777 in Scotland.
Incumbents
= Law officers
=Lord Advocate – Henry Dundas;
Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Murray
= Judiciary
=Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events
21 June – Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition begins publication in Edinburgh.
11 September – first minister ordained to United Presbyterian Church, Thurso; first church building opens this year.
73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders) raised.
Erskine Ferry established.
Births
22 January – Joseph Hume, army surgeon and radical politician (died 1855 in London)
3 February – John Cheyne, physician (died 1836 in England)
24 June – John Ross, naval officer and Arctic explorer (died 1856 in London)
26 July – Robert Hamilton Bishop, Presbyterian minister and educator (died 1855 in the United States)
27 July – Thomas Campbell, poet (died 1844 in France)
21 December – John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, peer and Whig politician (born in London; died 1847)
Deaths
3 January – William Leslie, British Army captain (born 1751; killed at Battle of Princeton)
12 January – Hugh Mercer, surgeon and American Continental Army brigadier general (born 1726; died of injuries received at Battle of Princeton)
13 January – James Rait, Episcopalian Bishop of Brechin since 1742 (born 1689)
23 March – Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite (born 1685)
7 October – Simon Fraser of Balnain, British Army general (born 1729 in Scotland; killed at Battle of Bemis Heights)
Sport
Fraserburgh Golf Club established.
Wanlockhead curling club established.
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
References
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- Henry Johnston
- 1777 in the United States
- Alexander Ramsay
- Earl of Aldborough
- Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition
- James Balfour
- 1777 in literature
