1763 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1763 in Scotland.
Contents
Incumbents
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- Monarch — George III
- Prime Minister of Great Britain — John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, until 8 April
Law officers
- Lord Advocate — Thomas Miller of Glenlee
- Solicitor General for Scotland — James Montgomery jointly with Francis Garden
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord Arniston, the younger
- Lord Justice General — vacant until April; then Duke of Queensberry
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Tinwald, then Lord Minto
Events
- 16 May — James Boswell is introduced to Samuel Johnson at Thomas Davies's bookshop in London. Boswell records the event:
[Boswell:] "Mr. Johnson, I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it."
[Johnson:] "That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help."[1]
- 21—29 May — John Wesley travels in Scotland.
- 26 June — Stagecoach service between Glasgow and Greenock initiated.[2]
- July — Construction of Coldstream Bridge across the border with England begins.
- August 5—6 — Battle of Bushy Run (Pontiac's War) in Pennsylvania: 77th Regiment of Foot (Montgomerie's Highlanders) fight on the winning British side prior to disbandment. 78th Fraser Highlanders are also disbanded.
- August 6 — The post of Historiographer Royal for Scotland is revived for Rev. William Robertson, Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
- Before October? — A pamphlet promoting creation of a British colony of Charlotina in North America is published in Edinburgh.[3]
- 1 October — Construction of first North Bridge, Edinburgh, begins, including drainage of eastern end of Nor Loch. The Edinburgh Physick Garden moves from a site by the loch to Leith Walk.
Births
- March — Mary Campbell (Highland Mary), dairymaid, beloved and a muse of Robert Burns (died 1786)
- 12 May — John Bell, surgeon (died 1820 in Rome)
- 29 June — Charles Hope, Lord Granton, politician and judge (died 1851)
- 9 August — James Leith, army officer and colonial governor (died 1816 in Barbados)
- 10 September — James Thomson, weaver poet (died 1832)
- 27 October — William Maclure, geologist of North America (died 1840 in Mexico)
- 6 December — Mary Anne Burges, religious allegorist (died 1813 in England)
- Approximate date — William McCoy, naval mutineer (suicide 1798 on Pitcairn Island)
Deaths
- 5 March — William Smellie, obstetrician (born 1697)
- 30 September — William Duff, 1st Earl Fife (born 1696)
The Arts
- March — James Macpherson, supposedly translating "Ossian", publishes Temora: An ancient epic poem; also this year Hugh Blair writes A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian.
- Before April? — English satirical poet Charles Churchill writes The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral.
