1762 in Scotland
# 1762 in Scotland

Events from the year 1762 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
* Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery jointly with Francis Garden

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
* Lord Justice General – Marquess of Tweeddale to 9 December; then vacant
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald

## Events

* 10 March – William Robertson is elected Principal of the University of Edinburgh, an office which he will hold until his death in 1793, contributing to the Scottish Enlightenment.
* c. April – new building for Perth Academy occupied.
* 5 November – John Watson's Institution established in Edinburgh (school closed 1975).
* Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.
* Economic crisis.
* Joseph Black first makes known his discoveries on latent heat, in Glasgow.

## Births

* 31 January – Lachlan Macquarie, British Army officer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1824 in London)
* 2 February – William Balmain, naval surgeon and civil administrator in New South Wales (died 1803 in London)
* 4 February – James Millar, physician and encyclopædist (died 1827)
* 30 April – George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore, politician (died 1836)
* 17 July – Alexander Crombie, Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher (died 1840 in London)
* 11 September – Joanna Baillie, poet and dramatist (died 1851 in London)
* 28 September – James Horsburgh, hydrographer of the East Indies (died 1836 in Kent)
* Approximate date – James Bisset, artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (died 1832 in the English midlands)

## Deaths

* 6 May – Sir Alexander Lindsay, 3rd Baronet (born 1683)
* 9 December – John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale (born 1695)
* 21 December – Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, Jacobite (born 1678)
