1767 in Scotland
# 1767 in Scotland

Events from the year 1767 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – James Montgomery
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas

### Judiciary

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

## Events

* 1 January – The Banking Company in Aberdeen, a co-partnery, opens for business.
* 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.
* 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)
