1691 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – William II and Mary II
• Secretary of State – John Dalrymple, Master of Stair

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – John Dalrymple
• Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
• Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cessnock

  Events

• 27 August – King William offers the Highland clans a pardon for their part in the Jacobite rising if they agree to pledge allegiance to him before New Year's Day.

  Births

• 30 April – Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount of Irvine landowner and politician
• date unknown –
• * Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald, nobleman, army officer and politician
• * William M'Culloch, minister
• * Philip Miller, botanist

  Deaths

• 21 October – Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston, cavalier
• date unknown –
• * Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale, peer and statesman