1750 in Scotland
Events from the year 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