1755 in Scotland

Events from the year 1755 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas the younger
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume; then Andrew Pringle of Alemore

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Glendoick
 * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald

Events

 * June – Joseph Black's discovery of carbon dioxide and magnesium is communicated in a paper to the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh.
 * 1 November – Lisbon earthquake felt in Scotland.
 * Demographic history of Scotland: First reliable national census conducted by Rev. Alexander Webster, showing the country's population as 1,265,380. Four towns have populations of over 10,000, with Edinburgh the largest with 57,000 inhabitants.
 * Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church.
 * Ironworks established at Furnace, Argyll.
 * Work on William Roy's survey of Scotland concludes.

Births

 * 18 January – James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton (died 1769)
 * 21 February – Anne Grant, poet (died 1838)
 * 25 June – Archibald Gracie merchant and shipowner (died 1829 in the United States)
 * August 5 – James Playfair, Scottish Neoclassical architect (died 1794)
 * 17 August – William Paterson, soldier, colonial governor in Australia, explorer and botanist (died 1810 at sea)
 * 4 September – Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney, née O'Brien (died 1831)
 * October – George Galloway, poet and playwright
 * November – John Dunlop, merchant and songwriter (died 1820)

Deaths

 * 5 June – John Sinclair, Lord Murkle, judge
 * 4 October – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge and composer (born 1676)

The arts

 * 25 February – 11-year-old David Allan begins to study painting at the new Foulis Academy in Glasgow.
 * David Dalrymple, as editor, publishes Edom of Gordon: an ancient Scottish poem.