1733 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Erskine

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 23 April-end of October – :File:General Wade's Bridge, Aberfeldy - geograph.org.uk - 1563111.jpg|Wade's Bridge, Aberfeldy, designed by William Adam, built.
• May-December – First Secession from the Church of Scotland.

  Births

• 4 January – Robert Mylne, architect
• 3 February – Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
• 1 May – Archibald McLean, Baptist minister
• 22 May – Alexander Monro, anatomist
• 24 December – Thomas Bell, theologian
• John Forbes, general in Portuguese service
• Lewis Hutchinson, serial killer

  Deaths

• January – Alexander Duncan, Episcopal Bishop of Glasgow
• 27 January – Patrick Vanse, Member of Parliament
• 31 October – David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow, politician
• 29 December – Sir Robert Grierson, 1st Baronet

  The arts

• William Thomson publishes Orpheus caledonius: or, A collection of Scots songs.