1695 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – William II
• Secretary of State – John Dalrymple, Master of Stair, jointly with James Johnston

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
• Solicitor General for Scotland – ??

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 2 July – 1 September – Scottish regiments are involved in the Siege of Namur
• 17 July – Parliament passes the act to establish the Bank of Scotland
• Carron Bridge built

  Births

• 1 August – John Rutherford, physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School
• 5 October – John Glas, clergyman who started the Glasite church movement
• 4 November – John Erskine of Carnock, jurist and professor of Scottish law at the University of Edinburgh
• date unknown –
• * John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, nobleman, politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, Governor of Bank of Scotland

  Deaths

• 13 April – James Drummond bishop
• 15 May – Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, peer,
• 29 November – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, lawyer and statesman,
• date unknown –
• * William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, politician