1755 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume; then Andrew Pringle of Alemore

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• Demographic history of Scotland: First reliable national census conducted by Rev. Alexander Webster, showing the country's population as 1,265,380. Four towns have populations of over 10,000, with Edinburgh the largest with 57,000 inhabitants.
• Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church.
• Ironworks established at Furnace, Argyll.
• Work on William Roy's survey of Scotland concludes.
• 1 November – Lisbon earthquake felt in Scotland.

  Births

• 18 January – James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton
• 21 February – Anne Grant, poet
• 25 June – Archibald Gracie merchant and shipowner
• 17 August – William Paterson, soldier, colonial governor in Australia, explorer and botanist
• 4 September – Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney, née O'Brien
• October – George Galloway, poet and playwright
• November – John Dunlop, merchant and songwriter

  Deaths

• 5 June – John Sinclair, Lord Murkle, judge
• 5 August – James Playfair, neoclassical architect
• 4 October – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge and composer

  The arts

• 25 February – 11-year-old David Allan begins to study painting at the new Foulis Academy in Glasgow.
• David Dalrymple, as editor, publishes Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem.