1764 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
• Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery jointly with Francis Garden; then James Montgomery alone

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
• Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto

  Events

• 3 January – Edinburgh Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
• November – The Speculative Society established in Edinburgh as a debating group, part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
• New Byth established as a planned village in Aberdeenshire by the local laird.
• New liturgy for the Scottish Episcopal Church published in Edinburgh.
• The turnip is first cultivated in Scotland as a field crop, by Dawson of Frogden.
• Howden Bridge built at Mid Calder.
• Approximate date – Yair Bridge built across the River Tweed by William Mylne.

  Births

• c. 1 February – George Duff, naval officer
• 22 February – Alexander Campbell, musician and miscellaneous writer
• 5 May – Robert Craufurd, general
• 11 July – Jane Aitken, printer
• 5 October – Isaac Cruikshank, painter and caricaturist
• 10 October – John Dick, minister and theologian
• October – William Symington, mechanical engineer, steamboat pioneer
• 6 November – Robert Heron, writer
• Alexander Mackenzie, explorer of northern Canada

  Deaths

• 23 May – William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, politician and judge

  The arts

• Pompeo Batoni paints portraits of Thomas Dundas and Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon in Rome.