1733 in Scotland

Events from the year 1733 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Erskine

Judiciary

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

Events

• 23 April–end of October – , Aberfeldy, designed by William Adam, built.
• May–December – First Secession from the Church of Scotland.

Births

• 4 January – Robert Mylne, architect (died 1811 in London)
• 3 February – Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1805 in England)
• 1 May – Archibald McLean, Baptist minister (died 1812)
• 22 May – Alexander Monro, anatomist (died 1817)
• 24 December – Thomas Bell, theologian (died 1802)
• John Forbes, general in Portuguese service (died 1808 in Brazil)
• Lewis Hutchinson, serial killer (hanged 1773 in Jamaica)

Deaths

• January – Alexander Duncan, Episcopal Bishop of Glasgow (born c. 1655)
• 27 January – Patrick Vanse, Member of Parliament (born c. 1655)
• 31 October – David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow, politician (born c. 1666)
• 29 December – Sir Robert Grierson, 1st Baronet (born 1655/6)

The arts

• William Thomson publishes Orpheus caledonius: or, A collection of Scots songs.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

References