1750 in Scotland
# 1750 in Scotland

Events from the year 1750 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – William Grant of Prestongrange
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume

### Judiciary

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

## Events

* Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, opens.
* James Short's Gregorian telescope (38 cm (14″) aperture reflector), the world's largest at this date, is constructed.
* Approximate date – Alexander Stephen begins shipbuilding at Burghead on the Moray Firth, origin of Alexander Stephen and Sons.

## Births

* 7 January – Robert Anderson, literary editor (died 1803)
* 18 February – David Bogue, nonconformist leader (died 1825 in England)
* 27 May – George Hill, Church of Scotland minister and academic (died 1819)
* 15 July (bapt.) – Robert Jackson, military physician and surgeon (died 1827 in England)
* 5 September – Robert Fergusson, poet writing in Braid Scots (died 1774)
* 14 October – John Fraser, botanist (died 1811 in England)
* 3 December – Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, British Army general and Governor of Gibraltar (died 1830 in England)
* 8 December – Lady Anne Barnard, née Lindsay, poet, ballad and travel writer (died 1825 in England)
* William Dunbar, merchant, plantation owner, naturalist, astronomer and explorer (died 1810 in the United States)
* Approximate date – George Robertson, topographical, agricultural and genealogical writer (died 1832)

## Deaths

* 5 March – Sir Alexander Reid, 2nd Baronet, laird and politician
* 3 May – John Willison, evangelical Church of Scotland minister and religious writer (born 1680)
