1740 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1740 in: Great Britain • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1740 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch — George II
- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Culloden
- Lord Justice General — Lord Ilay
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Milton
Events
- Hugh and Robert Tennent take over the Wellpark Brewery, originally known as the Drygate Brewery, in Glasgow.
- General George Wade is succeeded as Commander-in-chief in Scotland by Sir John Cope.
- The 43rd Highland Regiment of Foot (the 'Black Watch') first musters, at Aberfeldy.
Births
- 28 March (bapt.) — James Small, inventor (died 1793)
- 15 July — Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton (died 1819)
- 29 October — James Boswell, diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson (died 1795)
- James Cannon, mathematician and a principal draftsman of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (died 1782 in the United States)
- William Davidson, settler, lumberman, shipbuilder and politician in New Brunswick (died 1790 in Canada)
- William Smellie, master printer, naturalist, antiquary, editor and encyclopedist (died 1795)
Deaths
- 2 February — John Simson, heterodox theologian (born 1668?)
- 22 May — John Boyle, 2nd Earl of Glasgow (born 1688)
- 8 September — William Bruce, 8th Earl of Kincardine
The Arts
- 1 August — The patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!", with words by Scottish-born poet James Thomson, is first performed at Cliveden, the English country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales.[1]
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