1722_in_Scotland
1722 in Scotland
List of events
Events from the year 1722 in Scotland.
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Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Binning
Judiciary
- 7 May – Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway construction begins.
- Signet Library established in Edinburgh.[1]
- Pheasant introduced to Scotland.[1]
- Possible date – Burning of Janet Horne as a witch – see 1727 in Scotland.
- 26 January – Alexander Carlyle, Church of Scotland leader (died 1805)
- 4 May – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, judge (died 1799)
- 13 September – John Home, Episcopalian minister, playwright and writer (died 1808)
- 16 September – Gabriel Christie, British Army general and settler in Quebec (died 1799 in Canada)
- 1 December – Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish peer (died 1799)
- date unknown
- John Brown of Haddington, theologian (died 1787)
- Flora MacDonald, Jacobite (died 1790)
- Robert Smith, architect working in America (died 1777 in the United States)
- 28 February – William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian, army officer (born 1661)
- 9 August – Robert Sibbald, polymath (born 1641)
- William Aikman paints a portrait of the poet Allan Ramsay.
- Physician Archibald Pitcairne writes the comedy The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation.
- Ross, David (2002). Chronology of Scottish History. New Lanark: Geddes & Grosset. ISBN 1-85534-380-0.