1767 in Scotland

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1767
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
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Events from the year 1767 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateJames Montgomery
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandHenry Dundas

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord Arniston, the younger
  • Lord Justice GeneralDuke of Queensberry
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Barskimming

Events[]

  • 1 January – The Banking Company in Aberdeen, a co-partnery, opens for business.[1]
  • July – Edinburgh Council adopts the final plan for the New Town, for which the architect James Craig has been made a Freeman of the city on 3 June.
  • Quarries and lime kilns at Charlestown, Fife, opened by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin.[2]
  • Marischal Bridge, the first of Aberdeen's viaducts, is completed.
  • Auchincruive House is built after a design by Robert Adam.
  • The circular Kilarrow Parish Church in Bowmore on Islay is built.
  • The Johnston family enters the printing business.
  • Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society is published.

Births[]

  • 13 January – James Malcolm, Royal Marines officer (died 1849)
  • 1 March – Alexander Balfour, novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1829)
  • 7 April – Henry Bell, marine engineer (died 1830)
  • 6 July – George Johnstone Hope, admiral (died 1818 in London)
  • 3 October – Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, politician and art collector (born, and died 1852, in London)
  • Anthony Anderson, merchant and politician in Lower Canada (died 1847 in Canada)
  • George Watson, portrait painter (died 1837)
  • Approximate date – Miles Macdonell, settler in North America (died 1828)

Deaths[]

  • 1 April – Laurence Oliphant, Jacobite soldier (born 1691)
  • 10 July – Alexander Monro, physician (born 1697 in London)
  • 15 July – Michael Bruce, poet and hymnist (born 1746)
  • 10 December – John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, soldier (born 1698)
  • William Delacour, portrait painter (born 1700 in France)

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ "Aberdeen Finance". The Doric Columns. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  2. ^ Chesher, Susan; Foster, Linda; Hogben, Laurence (1979). A Short History of the Villages: Charlestown, Limekilns and Pattiesmuir. Charlestown, Limekilns and Pattiesmuir Community Council. p. 17.
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