1757 in Scotland
# 1757 in Scotland

Events from the year 1757 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Pringle of Alemore

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Glendoick
* Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald

## Events

* 77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders) raised as the First Highland Battalion by Maj. Archibald Montgomerie
* 78th Fraser Highlanders raised as the Second Highland Battalion.
* Macfarlane Observatory established at the University of Glasgow; its instruments are set up by James Watt in his new capacity as the university's instrument maker.
* Physician Francis Home publishes The Principles of Agriculture and Vegetation, an early presentation of the chemical principles underlying plant nutrition, in Edinburgh.
* Final rebuilding of Douglas Castle begins.
* Ossian's Hall of Mirrors, a folly at Dunkeld, is built.
* First lighthouse on Little Cumbrae is built.
* Main defences of Fort George completed.
* Robert Adam surveys the ruins of Diocletian's Palace at Spalato in Dalmatia.

## Births

* 27 February
   * Andrew Macdonald, Episcopal clergyman, poet and playwright (died 1790)
   * (baptised) – David Hume, advocate (died 1838)
* 4 March – George Thomson, musician and collector of traditional music (died 1851)
* April – John Clerk, Lord Eldin, judge (died 1832)
* 9 August – Thomas Telford, civil engineer (died 1834 in London)
* 20 October – Robert Kerr, surgeon and writer (died 1813)
* 13 November – Archibald Alison, Episcopal clergyman and essayist (died 1839)
* 6 December – Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet, general (died 1829)
* James Bonar, lawyer and astronomer (died 1821)
* Robert Brown, agriculturalist (died 1831)
* Andrew Mitchell, admiral (died 1806 in Bermuda)

## Deaths

* 19 January – Thomas Ruddiman, classical scholar, librarian and printer (born 1664)
* 20 January – Robert Keith, Episcopal bishop and historian (born 1681)
* 8 March – Thomas Blackwell, classical scholar (born 1701)

## The arts

* William Burness builds Burns Cottage in Alloway; his son, the national poet Robert Burns, will be born here in January 1759.
