1755 in Scotland
# 1755 in Scotland

Events from the year 1755 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume; then 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

* June – Joseph Black's discovery of carbon dioxide and magnesium is communicated in a paper to the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh.
* 1 November – Lisbon earthquake felt in Scotland.
* Demographic history of Scotland: First reliable national census conducted by Rev. Alexander Webster, showing the country's population as 1,265,380. Four towns have populations of over 10,000, with Edinburgh the largest with 57,000 inhabitants.
* Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church.
* Ironworks established at Furnace, Argyll.
* Work on William Roy's survey of Scotland concludes.

## Births

* 18 January – James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton (died 1769)
* 21 February – Anne Grant, poet (died 1838)
* 25 June – Archibald Gracie merchant and shipowner (died 1829 in the United States)
* August 5 – James Playfair, Scottish Neoclassical architect (died 1794)
* 17 August – William Paterson, soldier, colonial governor in Australia, explorer and botanist (died 1810 at sea)
* 4 September – Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney, née O'Brien (died 1831)
* October – George Galloway, poet and playwright
* November – John Dunlop, merchant and songwriter (died 1820)

## Deaths

* 5 June – John Sinclair, Lord Murkle, judge
* 4 October – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge and composer (born 1676)

## The arts

* 25 February – 11-year-old David Allan begins to study painting at the new Foulis Academy in Glasgow.
* David Dalrymple, as editor, publishes Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem.
