1764 in Scotland

Events from the year 1764 in Scotland.

Law officers

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

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
 * Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto

Events

 * 3 January – Edinburgh Advertiser newspaper begins publication.
 * November – The Speculative Society established in Edinburgh as a debating group, part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
 * New Byth established as a planned village in Aberdeenshire by the local laird.
 * New liturgy for the Scottish Episcopal Church published in Edinburgh.
 * The turnip is first cultivated in Scotland as a field crop, by Dawson of Frogden (Roxburghshire).
 * Howden Bridge built at Mid Calder.
 * Approximate date – Yair Bridge built across the River Tweed by William Mylne.

Births

 * c. 1 February – George Duff, naval officer (killed 1805 at Battle of Trafalgar)
 * 22 February – Alexander Campbell, musician and miscellaneous writer (died 1824)
 * 5 May – Robert Craufurd, general (killed 1812 at Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo)
 * 11 July – Jane Aitken, printer (died 1832 in the United States)
 * 5 October – Isaac Cruikshank, painter and caricaturist (died 1811 in London)
 * 10 October – John Dick, minister and theologian (died 1833)
 * October – William Symington, mechanical engineer, steamboat pioneer (died 1831 in London)
 * 6 November – Robert Heron, writer (died 1807 in London)
 * Alexander Mackenzie, explorer of northern Canada (died 1820)

Deaths

 * 23 May – William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, politician and judge (born 1701; died at Bath)

The arts

 * Pompeo Batoni paints portraits of Thomas Dundas and Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon in Rome.