1762 in Scotland

Events from the year 1762 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery jointly with Francis Garden

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
 * Lord Justice General – Marquess of Tweeddale to 9 December; then vacant
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Tinwald

Events

 * 10 March – William Robertson is elected Principal of the University of Edinburgh, an office which he will hold until his death in 1793, contributing to the Scottish Enlightenment.
 * c. April – new building for Perth Academy occupied.
 * 5 November – John Watson's Institution established in Edinburgh (school closed 1975).
 * Admiral John Ross of Balnagowan Castle initiates land tenure reform in the Highlands which will evolve into the Highland Clearances.
 * Economic crisis.
 * Joseph Black first makes known his discoveries on latent heat, in Glasgow.

Births

 * 31 January – Lachlan Macquarie, British Army officer and Governor of New South Wales (died 1824 in London)
 * 2 February – William Balmain, naval surgeon and civil administrator in New South Wales (died 1803 in London)
 * 4 February – James Millar, physician and encyclopædist (died 1827)
 * 30 April – George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore, politician (died 1836)
 * 17 July – Alexander Crombie, Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher (died 1840 in London)
 * 11 September – Joanna Baillie, poet and dramatist (died 1851 in London)
 * 28 September – James Horsburgh, hydrographer of the East Indies (died 1836 in Kent)
 * Approximate date – James Bisset, artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet (died 1832 in the English midlands)

Deaths

 * 6 May – Sir Alexander Lindsay, 3rd Baronet (born 1683)
 * 9 December – John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale (born 1695)
 * 21 December – Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, Jacobite (born 1678)