title: 1767 in Scotland
text: # 1767 in Scotland
  
  Events from the year 1767 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
  
  * 1 January – The Banking Company in Aberdeen, a co-partnery, opens for business.
  * July – Edinburgh Council adopts the final plan for the New Town, for which the architect James Craig has been made a Freeman of the city on 3 June.
  * Quarries and lime kilns at Charlestown, Fife, opened by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin.
  * Marischal Bridge, the first of Aberdeen's viaducts, is completed.
  * Auchincruive House is built after a design by Robert Adam.
  * The circular Kilarrow Parish Church in Bowmore on Islay is built.
  * The Johnston family enters the printing business.
  * Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society is published.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 13 January – James Malcolm, Royal Marines officer (died 1849)
  * 1 March – Alexander Balfour, novelist, short-story writer and poet (died 1829)
  * 7 April – Henry Bell, marine engineer (died 1830)
  * 6 July – George Johnstone Hope, admiral (died 1818 in London)
  * 3 October – Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, politician and art collector (born, and died 1852, in London)
  * Anthony Anderson, merchant and politician in Lower Canada (died 1847 in Canada)
  * George Watson, portrait painter (died 1837)
  * Approximate date – Miles Macdonell, settler in North America (died 1828)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1 April – Laurence Oliphant, Jacobite soldier (born 1691)
  * 10 July – Alexander Monro, physician (born 1697 in London)
  * 15 July – Michael Bruce, poet and hymnist (born 1746)
  * 10 December – John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, soldier (born 1698)
  * William Delacour, portrait painter (born 1700 in France)
  