1722 in Scotland
Events from the year 1722 in Scotland.Incumbents
- Monarch – George I
- Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Binning
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange
Events
- Signet Library established in Edinburgh.
- Pheasant introduced to Scotland.
- Probable date – Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway completed.
- Possible date – Burning of Janet Horne as a witch – see 1727 in Scotland.
Births
- 26 January – Alexander Carlyle, Church of Scotland leader
- 4 May – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, judge
- 13 September – John Home, Episcopalian minister, playwright and writer
- 16 September – Gabriel Christie, British Army general and settler in Quebec
- 1 December – Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish peer
- date unknown
- * John Brown of Haddington, theologian
- * Flora MacDonald, Jacobite
- * Robert Smith, architect working in America
Deaths
- 28 February – William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian, army officer
- 9 August – Robert Sibbald, polymath
The arts
- William Aikman paints a :File:Allan-Ramsay.jpg|portrait of the poet Allan Ramsay.
- Physician Archibald Pitcairne writes the comedy The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation.
