1767 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Montgomery
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 1 January – The Banking Company in Aberdeen, a co-partnery, opens for business.
• July – Edinburgh Council adopts the final plan for the New Town, for which the architect James Craig has been made a Freeman of the city on 3 June.
• Quarries and lime kilns at Charlestown, Fife, opened by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin.
• Marischal Bridge, the first of Aberdeen's viaducts, is completed.
• Auchincruive House is built after a design by Robert Adam.
• The circular Kilarrow Parish Church in Bowmore on Islay is built.
• The Johnston family enters the printing business.
• Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society is published.

  Births

• 13 January – James Malcolm, Royal Marines officer
• 1 March – Alexander Balfour, novelist, short-story writer and poet
• 7 April – Henry Bell, marine engineer
• 6 July – George Johnstone Hope, admiral
• 3 October – Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, politician and art collector
• Anthony Anderson, merchant and politician in Lower Canada
• George Watson, portrait painter
• Approximate date – Miles Macdonell, settler in North America

  Deaths

• 1 April – Laurence Oliphant, Jacobite soldier
• 10 July – Alexander Monro, physician
• 15 July – Michael Bruce, poet and hymnist
• 10 December – John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, soldier
• William Delacour, portrait painter