1758 in Scotland
Events from the year 1758 in Scotland.Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Pringle of Alemore
Judiciary
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald
Events
- Physician Francis Home makes the first attempt to deliver a measles vaccine.
Births
- 17 February – John Pinkerton, antiquarian and cartographer
- 21 March – Patrick Beatson, mariner and shipbuilder in Quebec
- 23 April – Alexander Cochrane, admiral
- 9 September – Alexander Nasmyth, portrait and landscape painter
- 31 October – Jean Glover, poet and singer
- Alexander Mackenzie Fraser, born Alexander Mackenzie, British Army general
Deaths
- 7 January – Allan Ramsay, poet
- 17 January – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton
- 18 July – Duncan Campbell, nobleman and British Army officer
- 14 October – James Francis Edward Keith, Jacobite, soldier and Prussian field-marshal
- 27 October – Elizabeth Blackwell, botanic writer and illustrator
- 12 November – John Cockburn, politician
