1765 in Scotland

Events from the year 1765 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
• Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
• Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto

Events

• May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser, an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.
• Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.
• Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.

Births

• 11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa)
• 22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811)
• 20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle)
• 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France)
• 24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London)

Deaths

• 3 April – Jean Adam, poet and songwriter (born 1704)
• 30 November – George Glas, merchant adventurer (born 1725; murdered at sea)

The arts

• First publication of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens".
• Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year.

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