1765 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1765 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
• Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
• Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto

Events

• May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser,^[1] an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.
• Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.^[2]
• Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.

Births

• 11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa)
• 22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811)
• 20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle)
• 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France)
• 24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London)

Deaths

• 3 April – Jean Adam, poet and songwriter (born 1704)^[3]
• 30 November – George Glas, merchant adventurer (born 1725; murdered at sea)

The arts

• First publication of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens".^[4]
• Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year.

Notes and References

1. Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8. 323.
2. Book: Kermack, W. R.. 19 Centuries of Scotland. Edinburgh. Johnston. 1944. 80.
3. Book: Ewan . Elizabeth . Pipes . Rose . Rendall . Jane . Reynolds . Siân . The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women . Edinburgh University Press . 9781474436281 . 5.
4. Book: Percy, Thomas. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. (sic.)