1775 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1775 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1775 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1775 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â James Montgomery; then Henry Dundas;
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Henry Dundas; then Alexander Murray
Judiciary
Events
- Colliers and Salters (Scotland) Act 1775 provides for gradual removal of conditions of servitude on coal miners.[1]
- The power of the burgh of Stirling to manage its own affairs is suspended when the Black Bond comes to light.
- Village of Tomintoul laid out by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon.
- John Howie's Biographia Scoticana is published.
- Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is published.
Births
- 12 March â Henry Eckford, shipbuilder in New York (died 1832 in Constantinople)
- 30 April â George Kinloch, radical politician (died 1833 in London)
- 8 September â John Leyden, orientalist (died 1811 in Java)
- 9 October â Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet, politician, poet, songwriter and antiquary (killed in duel 1822)
- 26 October â Alexander Thom, military surgeon, judge and politician (died 1858 in Canada)
- 13 November â John Burns, surgeon (drowned 1850)
- 14 December â Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, admiral (died 1860 in London)
Deaths
- 17 June â John Pitcairn, major in the marines (born 1722; killed in Battle of Bunker Hill)
- 18 November â Robert Forbes, Episcopal Bishop of Ross and Caithness (born 1708)
- 28 December â John Campbell, author (born 1708)
