1730 in Scotland

Events from the year 1730 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

Events

• 12 March – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.
• The Glasgow Linen Society is formed.
• Francis Hutcheson takes office as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, where he will lecture in English rather than Latin.
• Iron smelting at Abernethy using ore from Tomintoul.
• Perth–Dunkeld–Inverness road completed.
• Lebanon cedar tree introduced to Scotland.

Births

• 14 December – James Bruce, explorer of the Nile (died 1794)
• James Christie, auctioneer (died 1803 in England)
• John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, governor of the Province of New York (died 1809 in England)
• Probable year – Charlotte Lennox, novelist and poet (born in Gibraltar; died 1804 in England)

Deaths

• 25 December – Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine, army officer (born 1676)
• James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale, art collector (born c. 1687/8; died in Italy)

The arts

• James Thomson's poem cycle The Seasons is first published complete.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

References