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1740 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1740 in Scotland
.
←
1739
1738
1737
1736
1735
1740
in
Scotland
→
1741
1742
1743
1744
1745
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1720s
1730s
1740s
1750s
1760s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1740 in:
Great Britain
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
edit
Secretary of State for Scotland
:
vacant
Law officers
edit
Lord Advocate
–
Charles Erskine
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
William Grant of Prestongrange
Judiciary
edit
Lord President of the Court of Session
–
Lord Culloden
Lord Justice General
–
Lord Ilay
Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Milton
Events
edit
7 July
–
Adam Smith
sets out from Scotland to take up a scholarship at
Balliol College, Oxford
.
[1]
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
edit
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 in
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)
Christopher Wyvill
, cleric, landowner and political reformer in England (died
1822
)
Deaths
edit
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
edit
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
.
[2]
See also
edit
Scotland portal
Timeline of Scottish history
References
edit
^
"On this day in 1740..."
Adam Smith Institute
. 7 July 2010
. Retrieved
19 November
2019
.
^
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 308.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.