1775 in Scotland

Events from the year 1775 in Scotland.

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 (Scotland) 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 (died 1832 in Constantinople)
 * 30 April – George Kinloch, radical politician (died 1833 in London)
 * 8 September – John Leyden, orientalist (died 1811 in Java)
 * 9 October – Sir Alexander Boswell, 1st Baronet, politician, poet, songwriter and antiquary (killed in duel 1822)
 * 26 October – Alexander Thom, military surgeon, judge and politician (died 1858 in Canada)
 * 13 November – John Burns, surgeon (drowned 1850)
 * 14 December – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, admiral (died 1860 in London)

Deaths

 * 17 June – John Pitcairn, major in the marines (born 1722; killed in Battle of Bunker Hill)
 * 18 November – Robert Forbes, Episcopal Bishop of Ross and Caithness (born 1708)
 * 28 December – John Campbell, author (born 1708)