1750 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1750 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1750 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1750 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â William Grant of Prestongrange
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume
Judiciary
Events
- Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, opens.
- James Short's Gregorian telescope (38 cm (14â³) aperture reflector), the world's largest at this date, is constructed.
- Approximate date â Alexander Stephen begins shipbuilding at Burghead on the Moray Firth, origin of Alexander Stephen and Sons.[1]
Births
- 7 January â Robert Anderson, literary editor (died 1803)
- 18 February â David Bogue, nonconformist leader (died 1825 in England)
- 27 May â George Hill, Church of Scotland minister and academic (died 1819)
- 15 July (bapt.) â Robert Jackson, military physician and surgeon (died 1827 in England)
- 5 September â Robert Fergusson, poet writing in Braid Scots (died 1774)
- 14 October â John Fraser, botanist (died 1811 in England)
- 3 December â Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, British Army general and Governor of Gibraltar (died 1830 in England)
- 8 December â Lady Anne Barnard, née Lindsay, poet, ballad and travel writer (died 1825 in England)
- William Dunbar, merchant, plantation owner, naturalist, astronomer and explorer (died 1810 in the United States)
- Approximate date â George Robertson, topographical, agricultural and genealogical writer (died 1832)
Deaths
- 5 March â Sir Alexander Reid, 2nd Baronet, laird and politician
- 3 May â John Willison, evangelical Church of Scotland minister and religious writer (born 1680)
