1730 in Scotland
# 1730 in Scotland

Events from the year 1730 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* 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

* 12 March – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.
* The Glasgow Linen Society is formed.
* Francis Hutcheson takes office as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, where he will lecture in English rather than Latin.
* Iron smelting at Abernethy using ore from Tomintoul.
* Perth–Dunkeld–Inverness road completed.
* Lebanon cedar tree introduced to Scotland.

## Births

* 14 December – James Bruce, explorer of the Nile (died 1794)
* John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, governor of the Province of New York (died 1809 in England)
* Probable year – Charlotte Lennox, novelist and poet (born in Gibraltar; died 1804 in England)

## Deaths

* 25 December – Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine, army officer (born 1676)
* James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale, art collector (born c. 1687/8; died in Italy)

## The arts

* James Thomson's poem cycle The Seasons is first published complete.
