1750 in Scotland

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Grant of Prestongrange
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston the Elder
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald

Events

• Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, opens.
• James Short's Gregorian telescope, the world's largest at this date, is constructed.
• Approximate date – Alexander Stephen begins shipbuilding at Burghead on the Moray Firth, origin of Alexander Stephen and Sons.

Births

• 7 January – Robert Anderson, literary editor
• 18 February – David Bogue, nonconformist leader
• 27 May – George Hill, Church of Scotland minister and academic
• 15 July – Robert Jackson, military physician and surgeon
• 5 September – Robert Fergusson, poet writing in Braid Scots
• 14 October – John Fraser, botanist
• 3 December – Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, British Army general and Governor of Gibraltar
• 8 December – Lady Anne Barnard, née Lindsay, poet, ballad and travel writer
• William Dunbar, merchant, plantation owner, naturalist, astronomer and explorer
• Approximate date – George Robertson, topographical, agricultural and genealogical writer

Deaths

• 5 March – Sir Alexander Reid, 2nd Baronet, laird and politician
• 3 May – John Willison, evangelical Church of Scotland minister and religious writer