1749 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1749 in: Great Britain • Wales • Ireland • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1749 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
- 5 January — James Wolfe is promoted to major in Peyton's Regiment of Foot, at this time stationed in Glasgow.
- A stagecoach service opens between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- The Treason Outlawries (Scotland) Act is passed.
Births
- 1 June — James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn, nobleman, soldier and patron (died 1791 in England)
- 18 June — John Brown, miniature painter (died 1787)
- 29 August — Gilbert Blane, naval physician (died 1834 in England)
- 6 September — Benjamin Bell, surgeon (died 1806)
- October — Archibald Skirving, portrait painter (died 1819)
- 3 November — Daniel Rutherford, physician, chemist and botanist noted for the isolation of nitrogen (died 1819)
- 7 November — Charles Smith, portrait painter (died 1824)
- 8 December — Hugo Arnot, né Pollock, lawyer and campaigner (died 1786)
- 15 December — James Graeme, poet (died 1772)
- John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn, nobleman, cavalry officer and priest (died 1796)
- Ralph Walker, civil engineer (died 1824 in England)
Deaths
- 18 April — Alexander Robertson of Struan, chief of Clan Donnachaidh, Jacobite leader and poet (born c. 1668/70)[1]
- 19 October — William Ged, goldsmith and inventor of stereotyping (born 1699)
- 19 December — George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton, exiled Jacobite (born c. 1678; died in Italy)
- 25 December — John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford, 1st colonel of the Black Watch (born 1702)
- John Munro, 4th of Newmore, soldier and politician
See also
References
- ↑ Pittock, Murray G. H. (2004). "Robertson, Alexander, of Struan (c.1670–1749)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23783. Retrieved 2016-02-22. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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