1735 in Scotland
# 1735 in Scotland

Events from the year 1735 in Scotland.

## Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

### Law officers

* Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
* Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Erskine

### Judiciary

* Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
* Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
* Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange, then Lord Milton

## Events

* 8 August – Wade's Bridge, Aberfeldy, built and opened in 1733, is formally opened in the presence of General George Wade.

## Births

* 22 January – Robert Aitken, printer and publisher in Philadelphia, first to publish an English language Bible in the U.S. (died 1802 in the United States)
* 17 May (bapt.) – John Brown, physician (died 1788 in London)
* 20 September – James Keir, geologist, chemist and industrialist (died 1820 in West Bromwich)
* 25 October – James Beattie, poet and moralist (died 1803)
* 14 November – John Howie, biographer (died 1793)
* James Tassie, portrait engraver (died 1799 in London)

## Deaths

* 27 February – John Arbuthnot, satirist and polymath (born 1667; died in London)
