1714 in Scotland

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Timeline of Scottish history
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Events from the year 1714 in Scotland.

Incumbents[]

  • Secretary of State for Scotland: The Earl of Mar to 24 September; then The Duke of Montrose

Law officers[]

  • Lord AdvocateThomas Kennedy of Dunure
  • Solicitor General for ScotlandSir James Stewart, Bt jointly with John Carnegie of Boyseck

Judiciary[]

  • Lord President of the Court of SessionLord North Berwick
  • Lord Justice GeneralLord Ilay
  • Lord Justice ClerkLord Grange

Events[]

  • July – first Catholic seminary in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on Loch Morar.[1]
  • Commissioners of Police for Scotland appointed.
  • The first Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow, William Forbes, is appointed.
  • Kirkcaldy Brick and Tile Works established on the Links.

Births[]

  • 14 April – Adam Gib, religious leader (died 1788)
  • 6 September – Robert Whytt, physician (died 1766)
  • 25 October (bapt.)James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, judge and comparative linguist (died 1799)
  • 4 November – John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow (died 1775)
  • Rob Donn, Gaelic poet (died 1778)
  • Alexander Garden, politician (died 1785)
  • Alexander Wilson, surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1786)

Deaths[]

  • 1 August – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, last Stuart monarch (born 1665 in England)
  • 17 August – George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie, Secretary of State for Scotland (born 1630)
  • Robert Ferguson, presbyterian minister and political conspirator (born c. 1637)

See also[]

  • Timeline of Scottish history

References[]

  1. ^ "The Story of Eilean Ban". RC Diocese of Argyll & the Isles. 5 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.


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