Events from the year 1758 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Pringle of Alemore
Judiciary Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald
Events Physician Francis Home makes the first attempt to deliver a measles vaccine.
Births 17 February – John Pinkerton, antiquarian and cartographer (died 1826) 21 March – Patrick Beatson, mariner and shipbuilder in Quebec (died 1800 in Canada) 23 April – Alexander Cochrane, admiral (died 1832 in France) 9 September – Alexander Nasmyth, portrait and landscape painter (died 1840) 31 October – Jean Glover, poet and singer (died 1801 in Ireland) Alexander Mackenzie Fraser, born Alexander Mackenzie, British Army general (died 1809 in the Netherlands)
Deaths 7 January – Allan Ramsay, poet (born 1686) 17 January – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (born 1724) 18 July – Duncan Campbell, nobleman and British Army officer (died of wounds received at Battle of Carillon) 14 October – James Francis Edward Keith, Jacobite, soldier and Prussian field-marshal (born 1696; killed at Battle of Hochkirch) 27 October (bur.) – Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator (born 1707; died in London) 12 November – John Cockburn, politician
See also
Timeline of Scottish history 1758 in Great Britain
References