1729 in Scotland

Events from the year 1729 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

• 8 January – two women arrested in Edinburgh for wearing men's clothing.
• 6 August – Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh established as the "Hospital for the Sick Poor" or "Physicians' Hospital" in Edinburgh.
• Mackintosh of Borlum publishes An essay on ways and means for inclosing, fallowing, planting, &c. Scotland; and that in sixteen years at farthest, "by a lover of his country", in Edinburgh.

Births

• October – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, born William Johnstone, advocate, landowner and politician (died 1805 in London)
• William Buchan, physician (died 1805 in London)
• John Moore, physician and writer (died 1802 in London)

Deaths

• 21 March – John Law, economist (born 1671; died in Venice)
• 13 September – Colen Campbell, architect (born 1676; died in London)
• Gershom Carmichael, philosopher (born c. 1672)
• Sìleas na Ceapaich, Gaelic poet (born c. 1660)

The arts

• Society of St. Luke, Scotland's first art institute, established in Edinburgh.

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

References

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2. Scotland
3. James Ivory (disambiguation)
4. Wedderburn
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6. John Moore (Scottish physician)
7. 1777 in the United States
8. List of Freemasons (A–D)
9. 1777 in Scotland
10. 1729 in science
11. Royal Bank of Scotland
12. Thomas Ainslie
13. John Campbell of Mamore
14. David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk
15. 1720s
16. Swinton (surname)
17. 2024 in Scotland
18. History of Scotland
19. 1795 in the United States
20. Acts of Union 1707