1754 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Grant of Prestongrange; then Robert Dundas the younger
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – vacant until 22 January; then Lord Glendoick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald

  Events

• 25 March – Lord Harwicke's Marriage Act 1753 "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" comes into force in England and Wales, giving increased incentive for couples to contract Border marriages in Scotland.
• 14 May – The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is founded as the Society of St Andrews Golfers, a group of players on St Andrews Links.
• 11 July – William Burnett establishes the Aberdeen law firm that will continue in business as Burnett and Reid into the 21st century.
• The Select Society is established as The St Giles' Society by a group of 15 Edinburgh intellectuals, part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
• Old Spey Bridge at Grantown-on-Spey is completed by the military.
• Chemist Joseph Black discovers "carbonic acid gas", i.e. carbon dioxide.

  Births

• 9 June – Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, soldier and clan chief
• 2 August – Lady Charlotte Murray, botanist
• 21 August – William Murdoch, inventor
• Grace Elliott, née Dalrymple, courtesan and socialite
• John Graham, painter
• William John Gray, 13th Lord Gray, soldier

  Deaths

• 25 March – William Hamilton, exiled Jacobite poet
• 2 June – Ebenezer Erskine, Secessionist minister
• 17 June – George Ross, 13th Lord Ross
• 27 July – Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, judge
• 19 August
• * John Pringle, Lord Haining, lawyer, politician, judge and landowner
• * William Ross, 14th Lord Ross
• 23 August – William Cleghorn, philosopher
• 2 September – Alexander Leslie, 5th Earl of Leven