1775 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Montgomery; then Henry Dundas;
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Henry Dundas; then Alexander Murray

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• Colliers and Salters Act 1775 provides for gradual removal of conditions of servitude on coal miners.
• The power of the burgh of Stirling to manage its own affairs is suspended when the Black Bond comes to light.
• Village of Tomintoul laid out by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon.
• John Howie's Biographia Scoticana is published.
• Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland is published.

  Births

• 12 March – Henry Eckford, shipbuilder in New York
• 30 April – George Kinloch, radical politician
• 8 September – John Leyden, orientalist
• 26 October – Alexander Thom, military surgeon, judge and politician
• 13 November – John Burns, surgeon
• 14 December – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, admiral

  Deaths

• 17 June – John Pitcairn, major in the marines
• 18 November – Robert Forbes, Episcopal Bishop of Ross and Caithness
• 28 December – John Campbell, author