1755 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1755 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1755 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1755 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Robert Dundas the younger
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume; then Andrew Pringle of Alemore
Judiciary
Events
- June â Joseph Black's discovery of carbon dioxide and magnesium is communicated in a paper to the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh.[1]
- 1 November â 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.[2]
- Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church.[3]
- Ironworks established at Furnace, Argyll.
- Work on William Roy's survey of Scotland concludes.[4]
Births
- 18 January â James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton (died 1769)
- 21 February â Anne Grant, poet (died 1838)
- 25 June â Archibald Gracie merchant and shipowner (died 1829 in the United States)
- August 5 â James Playfair, Scottish Neoclassical architect (died 1794)
- 17 August â William Paterson, soldier, colonial governor in Australia, explorer and botanist (died 1810 at sea)
- 4 September â Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney, née O'Brien (died 1831)
- October â George Galloway, poet and playwright
- November â John Dunlop, merchant and songwriter (died 1820)
Deaths
- 5 June â John Sinclair, Lord Murkle, judge
- 4 October â Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge and composer (born 1676)
The arts
- 25 February â 11-year-old David Allan begins to study painting at the new Foulis Academy in Glasgow.[5]
- David Dalrymple, as editor, publishes Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem.
