Events from the year 1722 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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 7 May – Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway construction begins. Signet Library established in Edinburgh. Pheasant introduced to Scotland. Possible date – Burning of Janet Horne as a witch – see 1727 in Scotland.
Births 26 January – Alexander Carlyle, Church of Scotland leader (died 1805) 4 May – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, judge (died 1799) 13 September – John Home, Episcopalian minister, playwright and writer (died 1808) 16 September – Gabriel Christie, British Army general and settler in Quebec (died 1799 in Canada) 1 December – Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish peer (died 1799) date unknown John Brown of Haddington, theologian (died 1787) Flora MacDonald, Jacobite (died 1790) Robert Smith, architect working in America (died 1777 in the United States)
Deaths 28 February – William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian, army officer (born 1661) 9 August – Robert Sibbald, polymath (born 1641)
The arts William Aikman paints a portrait of the poet Allan Ramsay. Physician Archibald Pitcairne writes the comedy The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation.
See also
Timeline of Scottish history
References