1762 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1762 in Scotland.

Incumbents

10 March – William Robertson is elected Principal of the University of Edinburgh, an office which he will hold until his death in 1793, contributing to the Scottish Enlightenment.^[1]
c. April – new building for Perth Academy occupied.
5 November – John Watson's Institution established in Edinburgh (school closed 1975).
Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.^[2]
Economic crisis.^[3]
Joseph Black first makes known his discoveries on latent heat, in Glasgow.^[4]

31 January – Lachlan Macquarie, British Army officer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1824 in London)
2 February – William Balmain, naval surgeon and civil administrator in New South Wales (died 1803 in London)
4 February – James Millar, physician and encyclopædist (died 1827)
30 April – George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore, politician (died 1836)
17 July – Alexander Crombie, Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher (died 1840 in London)
11 September – Joanna Baillie, poet and dramatist (died 1851 in London)
28 September – James Horsburgh, hydrographer of the East Indies (died 1836 in Kent)
Approximate date – James Bisset, artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (died 1832 in the English midlands)

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Book: Richards, Eric. A History of the Highland Clearances. London. Croom Helm. 1982. 1. 249. 978-0-7099-2249-0.
H.. Hamilton. 1953. Scotland's Balance of Payments Problem in 1762. The Economic History Review. 5. 3. 344–357. 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1953.tb01474.x.
R. G. W.. Anderson. Black, Joseph (1728–1799). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. Online. 10.1093/ref:odnb/2495.