1727 in Scotland
Events from the year 1727 in Scotland.Incumbents
- Monarch – George I, to 11 June; then George II
- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange
Events
- 31 May – the Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by Royal Charter in Edinburgh. Co-founder Lord Ilay is its first governor.
- Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland established.
- An old woman known as Janet Horne of Loth, Sutherland, becomes the last alleged witch in the British Isles to be executed when she is burned at the stake in Dornoch.
- Outbreak of smallpox on Hirta.
- The first Palladian villa in Scotland, Mavisbank House, designed by William Adam in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, is completed.
Births
- 7 September – William Smith, Episcopalian priest and theologian, first provost of the University of Pennsylvania, poet and historian
- Niel Gow, fiddler
Deaths
- Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw, ballad writer
