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List of events
Events from the year 1763 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
[Boswell:] "Mr. Johnson, I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it."
[Johnson:] "That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help."
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Births
March –
Mary Campbell (Highland Mary) , dairymaid, beloved and a muse of Robert Burns (died
1786 )
12 May –
John Bell , surgeon (died 1820 in Rome)
29 June –
Charles Hope, Lord Granton , politician and judge (died
1851 )
9 August –
James Leith , army officer and colonial governor (died 1816 in Barbados)
10 September –
James Thomson , weaver poet (died
1832 )
27 October –
William Maclure , geologist of North America (died 1840 in Mexico)
6 December –
Mary Anne Burges , religious allegorist (died 1813 in England)
Approximate date –
William McCoy , naval mutineer (suicide 1798 on Pitcairn Island)
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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