1752 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

• 17 March – the Parliament of Great Britain passes an act to bestow estates forfeited by Jacobites to the Crown and to use the revenue to develop the Scottish Highlands.
• 14 May – Appin Murder: Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure, 44, who has recently been dispossessing members of the Jacobite Clan Stewart of Appin, is shot in the back in the wood of Lettermore between Ballachulish and Kentallen. The chief suspect, Alan Breck Stewart, having fled to France, James Stewart of the Glen is found guilty "in art and part" at Inveraray by a judge and jury entirely from Clan Campbell and hanged on 8 November at Cnap a' Chaolais above the narrows at Ballachulish.
• 3–13 September – these dates are omitted from the calendar in Britain as part of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar to correct the discrepancy between Old Style and New Style dates.
• Bonawe ironworks established.
• Pollok House near Glasgow, designed by William Adam is built.
• Kinbuck Bridge is built.
• The village of Luncarty is established by William Sandeman to house his employees.
• Adam Smith transfers to professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

  Births

• 13 January – Sir Philip Anstruther-Paterson, 3rd Baronet, politician
• 6 April – Hugh Elliot, colonial governor
• 17 April – John Austin, inventor
• 6 November – George Skene Keith, minister and writer on diverse topics
• 20 November – George Cumming, politician
• Andrew Wodrow, Virginia merchant

  Deaths

• 23 February – John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
• 6 November – Ralph Erskine, preacher

  The arts

• Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Kidnapped is inspired by the Appin Murder case.