1737 in Scotland
# 1737 in Scotland

Events from the year 1737 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes, then Charles Erskine
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Erskine, then William Grant of Prestongrange

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick until 20 June; then Lord Culloden
* Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton

## Events

* The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is debarred from office following the previous year's Porteous Riots.
* Aberdeen Royal Infirmary founded as Woolmanhill Hospital.
* Royal Society of Edinburgh formed as the Edinburgh Society for Improving Arts and Sciences and particularly Natural Knowledge.
* Kilmichael Bridge in Argyll built.
* Construction of a new Glasgow town hall begins.
* Andrew Rodger, a farmer on the estate of Cavers, south Roxburghshire, develops a winnowing machine for corn, called a 'fanner'.

## Births

* 25 March (bapt.) – William Forsyth, horticulturist (died 1804 in London)
* 17 July – John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, born John Lyon (died 1776 at sea)
* 29 August – John Hunter, Royal Navy officer and governor of New South Wales (died 1821 in London)
* 14 September – Alexander Geddes, Catholic theologian and scholar (died 1802 in London)
* James Clark, physician and plantation owner in Dominica (died 1819 in London)
* John Donaldson, miniature painter (died 1801 in London)

## Deaths

* 29 January – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, soldier (born 1666; died in London)
* 1 February – Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick, judge and politician (born 1652)

## The arts

* Allan Ramsay co-writes and edits the last volume of The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs.
