1724 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

• c. March–November – Galloway "Levellers" dykebreaking in opposition to enclosures.
• 24 December – General George Wade is appointed Commander in Chief in Scotland after his report on the need for military roads in the country.
• Burcefield and Gardie Houses built.

  Births

• 20 March – Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Gaelic poet
• 3 June – John Gregory, physician and moralist
• 10 July – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton

  Deaths

• 14 November – John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, soldier and politician

  The arts

• Allan Ramsay publishes The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems and co-writes and edits the first volume of The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English.