1714 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Anne, to 1 August 1714; then George I
• Secretary of State for Scotland: The Earl of Mar to 24 September; then The Duke of Montrose

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Kennedy of Dunure
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir James Stewart, Bt jointly with John Carnegie of Boyseck

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

  Events

• July – first Catholic seminary in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on Loch Morar.
• 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
• 6 September – Robert Whytt, physician
• 25 October – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, judge and comparative linguist
• 4 November – John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow
• Rob Donn, Gaelic poet
• Alexander Garden, politician
• Alexander Wilson, surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician

  Deaths

• 1 August – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, last Stuart monarch
• 17 August – George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie, Secretary of State for Scotland
• Robert Ferguson, presbyterian minister and political conspirator