1764 in Scotland
# 1764 in Scotland

Events from the year 1764 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

### Law officers

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

### Judiciary

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

## Events

* 3 January – Edinburgh Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
* November – The Speculative Society established in Edinburgh as a debating group, part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
* New Byth established as a planned village in Aberdeenshire by the local laird.
* New liturgy for the Scottish Episcopal Church published in Edinburgh.
* The turnip is first cultivated in Scotland as a field crop, by Dawson of Frogden (Roxburghshire).
* Howden Bridge built at Mid Calder.
* Approximate date – Yair Bridge built across the River Tweed by William Mylne.

## Births

* c. 1 February – George Duff, naval officer (killed 1805 at Battle of Trafalgar)
* 22 February – Alexander Campbell, musician and miscellaneous writer (died 1824)
* 5 May – Robert Craufurd, general (killed 1812 at Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo)
* 11 July – Jane Aitken, printer (died 1832 in the United States)
* 5 October – Isaac Cruikshank, painter and caricaturist (died 1811 in London)
* 10 October – John Dick, minister and theologian (died 1833)
* October – William Symington, mechanical engineer, steamboat pioneer (died 1831 in London)
* 6 November – Robert Heron, writer (died 1807 in London)
* Alexander Mackenzie, explorer of northern Canada (died 1820)

## Deaths

* 23 May – William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, politician and judge (born 1701; died at Bath)

## The arts

* Pompeo Batoni paints portraits of Thomas Dundas and Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon in Rome.
