1777 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George III

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Henry Dundas;
• Solicitor General for Scotland – 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

• 21 June – Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition begins publication in Edinburgh.
• 11 September – first minister ordained to United Presbyterian Church, Thurso; first church building opens this year.
• 73rd Regiment of Foot raised.
• Erskine Ferry established.

  Births

• 22 January – Joseph Hume, army surgeon and radical politician
• 3 February – John Cheyne, physician
• 24 June – John Ross, naval officer and Arctic explorer
• 26 July – Robert Hamilton Bishop, Presbyterian minister and educator
• 27 July – Thomas Campbell, poet
• 21 December – John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, peer and Whig politician

  Deaths

• 3 January – William Leslie, British Army captain
• 12 January – Hugh Mercer, surgeon and American Continental Army brigadier general
• 13 January – James Rait, Episcopalian Bishop of Brechin since 1742
• 23 March – Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet, Jacobite
• 7 October – Simon Fraser of Balnain, British Army general

  Sport

• Fraserburgh Golf Club established.
• Wanlockhead curling club established.