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List of events
Events from the year 1750 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 7 January –
Robert Anderson, literary editor (died
1803)
- 18 February –
David Bogue, nonconformist leader (died 1825 in England)
- 27 May –
George Hill, Church of Scotland minister and academic (died
1819)
- 15 July (bapt.) –
Robert Jackson, military physician and surgeon (died 1827 in England)
- 5 September –
Robert Fergusson, poet writing in
Braid Scots (died
1774)
- 14 October –
John Fraser, botanist (died 1811 in England)
- 3 December –
Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, British Army general and Governor of Gibraltar (died 1830 in England)
- 8 December –
Lady Anne Barnard, née Lindsay, poet, ballad and travel writer (died 1825 in England)
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William Dunbar, merchant, plantation owner, naturalist, astronomer and explorer (died
1810 in the United States)
- Approximate date –
George Robertson, topographical, agricultural and genealogical writer (died
1832)
Deaths
See also
References
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^ Records of Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, shipbuilders and engineers, Linthouse, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. University of Glasgow Archives.
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