1738 in Scotland
# 1738 in Scotland

Events from the year 1738 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Charles Erskine
* Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant of Prestongrange

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden
* Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton

## Events

* 22 May – foundation stone of George Watson's College in Edinburgh is laid.
* Anderston Weavers' Society established in Glasgow.

## Births

* 19 May – Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet, politician (died 1811)
* 12 December (bapt.) – William Cochran, portrait painter (died 1785)
* 19 December – James Playfair, minister of religion and scholar (died 1819)
* Alexander Henderson, merchant and politician in Virginia, "father of the American chain store" (died 1815 in the United States)
* Probable date – James Dickson, botanist (died 1822 in London)

## Deaths

* 4 January – George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton, politician (born 1662)
* 25 March – Robert Murray, British Army officer and politician (born 1689)
