1758 in Scotland

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1758
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1758 in: Great BritainWalesElsewhere

Events from the year 1758 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateRobert Dundas the younger
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandAndrew Pringle of Alemore

Judiciary[]

  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Tinwald

Events[]

  • Physician Francis Home makes the first attempt to deliver a measles vaccine.

Births[]

  • 17 February – John Pinkerton, antiquarian and cartographer (died 1826)
  • 21 March – Patrick Beatson, mariner and shipbuilder in Quebec (died 1800 in Canada)
  • 23 April – Alexander Cochrane, admiral (died 1832 in France)
  • 9 September – Alexander Nasmyth, portrait and landscape painter (died 1840)
  • 31 October – Jean Glover, poet and singer (died 1801 in Ireland)
  • Alexander Mackenzie Fraser, born Alexander Mackenzie, British Army general (died 1809 in the Netherlands)

Deaths[]

  • 7 January – Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686)
  • 17 January – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (born 1724)
  • 18 July – Duncan Campbell, nobleman and British Army officer (died of wounds received at Battle of Carillon)
  • 14 October – James Francis Edward Keith, Jacobite, soldier and Prussian field-marshal (born 1696; killed at Battle of Hochkirch)
  • 27 October (bur.)Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator (born 1707; died in London)
  • 12 November – John Cockburn, politician

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