Events from the year 1767 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers Lord Advocate – James Montgomery Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas
Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
Events 1 January – The Banking Company in Aberdeen, a co-partnery, opens for business. July – Edinburgh Council adopts the final plan for the New Town, for which the architect James Craig has been made a Freeman of the city on 3 June. Quarries and lime kilns at Charlestown, Fife, opened by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin. Marischal Bridge, the first of Aberdeen's viaducts, is completed. Auchincruive House is built after a design by Robert Adam. The circular Kilarrow Parish Church in Bowmore on Islay is built. The Johnston family enters the printing business. Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society is published.
Births 13 January – James Malcolm, Royal Marines officer (died 1849) 1 March – Alexander Balfour, novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1829) 7 April – Henry Bell, marine engineer (died 1830) 6 July – George Johnstone Hope, admiral (died 1818 in London) 3 October – Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, politician and art collector (born, and died 1852, in London) Anthony Anderson, merchant and politician in Lower Canada (died 1847 in Canada) George Watson, portrait painter (died 1837) Approximate date – Miles Macdonell, settler in North America (died 1828)
Deaths 1 April – Laurence Oliphant, Jacobite soldier (born 1691) 10 July – Alexander Monro, physician (born 1697 in London) 15 July – Michael Bruce, poet and hymnist (born 1746) 10 December – John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, soldier (born 1698) William Delacour, portrait painter (born 1700 in France)
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
References