1777 in Scotland
# 1777 in Scotland

Events from the year 1777 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Henry Dundas;
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Murray

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
* Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming

## Events

* 21 June – Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition begins publication in Edinburgh.
* 11 September – first minister ordained to United Presbyterian Church, Thurso; first church building opens this year.
* 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot (MacLeod's Highlanders) raised.
* Erskine Ferry established.

## Births

* 22 January – Joseph Hume, army surgeon and radical politician (died 1855 in London)
* 3 February – John Cheyne, physician (died 1836 in England)
* 24 June – John Ross, naval officer and Arctic explorer (died 1856 in London)
* 26 July – Robert Hamilton Bishop, Presbyterian minister and educator (died 1855 in the United States)
* 27 July – Thomas Campbell, poet (died 1844 in France)
* 21 December – John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, peer and Whig politician (born in London; died 1847)

## Deaths

* 3 January – William Leslie, British Army captain (born 1751; killed at Battle of Princeton)
* 12 January – Hugh Mercer, surgeon and American Continental Army brigadier general (born 1726; died of injuries received at Battle of Princeton)
* 13 January – James Rait, Episcopalian Bishop of Brechin since 1742 (born 1689)
* 23 March – Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite (born 1685)
* 7 October – Simon Fraser of Balnain, British Army general (born 1729 in Scotland; killed at Battle of Bemis Heights)

## Sport

* Fraserburgh Golf Club established.
* Wanlockhead curling club established.
