1698 in Scotland
# 1698 in Scotland

Events from the year 1698 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – William II
* Secretary of State – John Murray, Earl of Tullibardine (until 31 March 1698), jointly with James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Sir Patrick Hume

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – vacant?? until 17 March, then Lord North Berwick
* Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ormiston

## Events

* Famine in the Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
* 14 July – first expedition sets sail as part of the Darien scheme.
* November – colony of New Caledonia established on the Isthmus of Panama.

## Births

* February – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (died 1746)
* 11 July – George Turnbull, philosopher, theologian, teacher and writer (died 1748)

date unknown

* Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Gaelic poet (died 1770)
* Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, landowner, Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland (died 1778)
* John Gow, pirate (executed in London 1725)

## Deaths

* John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, Army officer (died 1767)
