title: 1764 in Scotland
text: # 1764 in Scotland
  
  Events from the year 1764 in Scotland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Law officers
  
  * Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
  * Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery jointly with Francis Garden; then James Montgomery alone
  
  ### Judiciary
  
  * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
  * Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
  * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto
  
  ## Events
  
  * 3 January – Edinburgh Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
  * November – The Speculative Society established in Edinburgh as a debating group, part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  * New Byth established as a planned village in Aberdeenshire by the local laird.
  * New liturgy for the Scottish Episcopal Church published in Edinburgh.
  * The turnip is first cultivated in Scotland as a field crop, by Dawson of Frogden (Roxburghshire).
  * Howden Bridge built at Mid Calder.
  * Approximate date – Yair Bridge built across the River Tweed by William Mylne.
  
  ## Births
  
  * c. 1 February – George Duff, naval officer (killed 1805 at Battle of Trafalgar)
  * 22 February – Alexander Campbell, musician and miscellaneous writer (died 1824)
  * 5 May – Robert Craufurd, general (killed 1812 at Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo)
  * 11 July – Jane Aitken, printer (died 1832 in the United States)
  * 5 October – Isaac Cruikshank, painter and caricaturist (died 1811 in London)
  * 10 October – John Dick, minister and theologian (died 1833)
  * October – William Symington, mechanical engineer, steamboat pioneer (died 1831 in London)
  * 6 November – Robert Heron, writer (died 1807 in London)
  * Alexander Mackenzie, explorer of northern Canada (died 1820)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 23 May – William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, politician and judge (born 1701; died at Bath)
  
  ## The arts
  
  * Pompeo Batoni paints portraits of Thomas Dundas and Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon in Rome.
  