1760 in Scotland

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1760
in
Scotland

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1760 in: Great BritainWalesElsewhere

Events from the year 1760 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateRobert Dundas the younger; then Thomas Miller of Glenlee
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandJames Montgomery jointly with Francis Garden

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord Glendoick until 10 March; then from 30 April Lord Arniston, the younger
  • Lord Justice GeneralLord Ilay
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Tinwald

Events[]

  • January – 88th Regiment of Foot (Highland Volunteers) raised at Stirling.
  • 26 December – Carron Company produces its first cast iron at Falkirk.
  • George Ross acquires Cromarty and begins the process of developing it as a planned town.
  • Edinburgh City Chambers is opened as the Royal Exchange, to a design by John Adam.
  • Construction of a new Glasgow town hall is completed.
  • First wellhouse built at St Bernard's Well, Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
  • The office of Regius Professor of Practical Astronomy in the University of Glasgow is established, with Alexander Wilson as first holder.

Births[]

  • 29 April? – Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, judge (died 1842 in Leamington Spa)
  • 3 September – James Wilson, weaver and revolutionary (executed 1820)
  • 28 September – Gilbert Burns, farmer, brother of Robert Burns (died 1827)

Deaths[]

  • 11 October – Lord George Murray, Jacobite general (born 1694; died in Medemblik)
  • Margaret McMurray, last known speaker of Galwegian Gaelic

The arts[]

  • 27 July? – the Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh, predecessor of Edinburgh College of Art, is established.
  • Publication of Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland by James Macpherson.
  • Approximate date – piper Joseph MacDonald’s Compleat Theory of the Scots Highland Bagpipe is written, the first study of the subject.[1]

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ Chamier, George (2009). When it Happened in Scotland. London: Constable. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-84901-006-1.
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