title: 1768 in Scotland
text: # 1768 in Scotland
  
  Events from the year 1768 in Scotland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Law officers
  
  * Lord Advocate – James Montgomery
  * Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas
  
  ### Judiciary
  
  * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
  * Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
  * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Barskimming
  
  ## Events
  
  * 10 June – construction of Forth and Clyde Canal begins (Act 8 March).
  * 10 December – first volumes of Encyclopædia Britannica begin publication in Edinburgh.
  * Bridge over River Deveron between Banff and Macduff swept away in flood.
  * David Dale begins his own business importing linen yarn from the Dutch Republic to Glasgow.
  * Duchal House extended.
  * Alloa Waggonway open.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 2 May – Zachary Macaulay, abolitionist and statistician (died 1838 in London)
  * 3 May – Charles Tennant, chemist and industrialist (died 1838)
  * 9 May – James Thomson, Presbyterian minister and editor of Encyclopædia Britannica (died 1855 in London)
  * 11 May – David Hamilton, Glasgow architect (died 1843)
  * 14 July – James Haldane, soldier and evangelist (died 1851)
  * 29 August (bapt.) – William Erskine, Lord Kinneder, scholar and songwriter (died 1822)
  * 23 September – William Wallace, mathematician (died 1843)
  * 6 November – James Hay Beattie, poet (died 1790)
  * 10 November – Thomas Thomson, advocate, antiquarian and archivist (died 1852)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 15 June – James Short, mathematician and optician (born 1710)
  * 1 October – Robert Simson, mathematician (born 1687)
  * 12 October – James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, astronomer (born 1702)
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