Events from the year 1748 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Law officers

* Lord Advocate – William Grant of Prestongrange * Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with Alexander Hume

Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden until 4 June; then Lord Arniston the Elder * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton, then Lord Tinwald

Events

* 1 April – under the Sheriffs (Scotland) Act 1747, trials for treason in Scotland can take place outside the shire in which the crime is committed. * 24 June – on the death of his father William, John Adam inherits his architectural practice in Scotland and the position of Master Mason to the

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, immediately taking his brother Robert into partnership. * 1 July – James Davidson, who had deserted from the Hanoverian army to support the Jacobites, is executed at Ruthrieston Cross near the Bridge of Dee in Aberdeen after being found guilty of several robberies in Angus and The Mearns. * Construction of

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begins. * Clergy of the Scottish Episcopal Church are forbidden to officiate unless ordained by an English (or Irish) bishop. * Garron Bridge on the Inveraray Castle estate, designed by Roger Morris and/or his kin Robert Morris, is completed. * A window tax is levied in Scotland. * The Treason Outlawries (Scotland) Act of 1749 comes into effect retrospectively. * David Hume's '' An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'' is published. * The ''

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'' is first published under this title.

Births

* 1 January – Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, nobleman and inventor (died

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) * 10 March – John Playfair, scientist (died

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) * 27 December – William Marshall, fiddle player and composer (died

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) * Hugh Henry Brackenridge, writer, poet, lawyer, judge and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice (died

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)

Deaths

* 14 March – George Wade, British Army officer and road builder in Scotland (born 1673 in Ireland; died in England) * 24 June – William Adam, architect (born

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) * 27 August – James Thomson, poet and playwright (born

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; died in Richmond upon Thames) * 26 October – Donald Cameron of Lochiel, "The Gentle Lochiel", clan chief and exiled Jacobite leader (born c. 1700; died in France)

References

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