1729 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – 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

• 8 January – two women arrested in Edinburgh for wearing men’s clothing.
• 6 August – Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh established as the "Hospital for the Sick Poor" or "Physicians' Hospital" in Edinburgh.
• Mackintosh of Borlum publishes An essay on ways and means for inclosing, fallowing, planting, &c. Scotland; and that in sixteen years at farthest, "by a lover of his country", in Edinburgh.

  Births

• October – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, born William Johnstone, advocate, landowner and politician
• William Buchan, physician
• John Moore, physician and writer

  Deaths

• March 21 – John Law, economist
• September 13 – Colen Campbell, architect
• Gershom Carmichael, philosopher
• Sìleas na Ceapaich, Gaelic poet

  The arts

• Society of St. Luke, Scotland's first art institute, established in Edinburgh.