1729 in Scotland
# 1729 in Scotland

Events from the year 1729 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

* 8 January – two women arrested in Edinburgh for wearing men's clothing.
* 6 August – Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh established as the "Hospital for the Sick Poor" or "Physicians' Hospital" in Edinburgh.
* Mackintosh of Borlum publishes An essay on ways and means for inclosing, fallowing, planting, &c. Scotland; and that in sixteen years at farthest, "by a lover of his country", in Edinburgh.

## Births

* October – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, born William Johnstone, advocate, landowner and politician (died 1805 in London)
* William Buchan, physician (died 1805 in London)
* John Moore, physician and writer (died 1802 in London)

## Deaths

* 21 March – John Law, economist (born 1671; died in Venice)
* 13 September – Colen Campbell, architect (born 1676; died in London)
* Gershom Carmichael, philosopher (born c. 1672)
* Sìleas na Ceapaich, Gaelic poet (born c. 1660)

## The arts

* Society of St. Luke, Scotland's first art institute, established in Edinburgh.
