1749 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Grant of Prestongrange
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston the Elder
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald

  Events

• 5 January – James Wolfe is promoted to major in Peyton's Regiment of Foot, at this time stationed in Glasgow.
• A stagecoach service opens between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
• The Treason Outlawries Act is passed.

  Births

• 1 June – James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn, nobleman, soldier and patron
• 18 June – John Brown, miniature painter
• 29 August – Gilbert Blane, naval physician
• 6 September – Benjamin Bell, surgeon
• October – Archibald Skirving, portrait painter
• 3 November – Daniel Rutherford, physician, chemist and botanist noted for the isolation of nitrogen
• 7 November – Charles Smith, portrait painter
• 8 December – Hugo Arnot, né Pollock, lawyer and campaigner
• 15 December – James Graeme, poet
• John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn, nobleman, cavalry officer and priest
• Ralph Walker, civil engineer

  Deaths

• 18 April – Alexander Robertson of Struan, chief of Clan Donnachaidh, Jacobite leader and poet
• 19 October – William Ged, goldsmith and inventor of stereotyping
• 19 December – George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton, exiled Jacobite
• 25 December – John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford, 1st colonel of the Black Watch
• John Munro, 4th of Newmore, soldier and politician