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1758 in Scotland
Summary
Events from the year
1758 in
Scotland
.
←
1757
1756
1755
1754
1753
1758
in
Scotland
→
1759
1760
1761
1762
1763
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1730s
1740s
1750s
1760s
1770s
See also:
List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1758 in:
Great Britain
•
Wales
•
Elsewhere
Incumbents
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Law officers
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Lord Advocate
–
Robert Dundas the younger
Solicitor General for Scotland
–
Andrew Pringle of Alemore
Judiciary
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Lord Justice Clerk
–
Lord Tinwald
Events
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Physician
Francis Home
makes the first attempt to deliver a
measles vaccine
.
Births
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17 February –
John Pinkerton
, antiquarian and cartographer (died
1826
)
21 March –
Patrick Beatson
, mariner and shipbuilder in Quebec (died
1800 in Canada
)
23 April –
Alexander Cochrane
, admiral (died
1832 in France
)
9 September –
Alexander Nasmyth
, portrait and landscape painter (died
1840
)
31 October –
Jean Glover
, poet and singer (died
1801 in Ireland
)
Alexander Mackenzie Fraser
, born Alexander Mackenzie, British Army general (died 1809 in the Netherlands)
Deaths
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7 January –
Allan Ramsay
, poet (born
1686
)
17 January –
James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton
(born
1724
)
18 July –
Duncan Campbell
, nobleman and British Army officer (died of wounds received at
Battle of Carillon
)
14 October –
James Francis Edward Keith
, Jacobite, soldier and Prussian field-marshal (born
1696
; killed at
Battle of Hochkirch
)
27 October
(bur.)
–
Elizabeth Blackwell
, botanic writer and illustrator (born
1707
; died in London)
12 November –
John Cockburn
, politician
See also
edit
Scotland portal
Timeline of Scottish history
1758 in Great Britain
References
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