1727 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1727 }}
Events from the year 1727 in Scotland.
Incumbents
{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}
- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
- Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine
= Judiciary =
Events
- 31 May – the Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by Royal Charter in Edinburgh.{{cite book|chapter=1727|title=The People's Chronology|editor=Everett, Jason M.|publisher=Thomson Gale|year=2006}} Co-founder Lord Ilay is its first governor.
- Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland established.{{cite book|first=W. R.|last=Kermack|title=19 Centuries of Scotland|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Johnston|year=1944|page=75}}
- An old woman known as Janet (Jenny) Horne of Loth, Sutherland, becomes the last alleged witch in the British Isles to be executed when she is burned at the stake in Dornoch.{{cite web|url=http://www.historylinks.org.uk/Dornoch18.htm|title=Dornoch in the 18th century|work=Historylinks Museum|access-date=2010-08-27|archive-date=6 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706092638/http://historylinks.org.uk/Dornoch18.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|first=K. M.|last=Sheard|title=Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names: For Pagans, Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, Mages, Shamans & Independent Thinkers of All Sorts Who Are Curious about Names|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVyHTUQnnBgC&pg=PA304|access-date=2012-06-28|date=2011-12-08|publisher=Llewellyn Worldwide|isbn=978-0-7387-2368-6|page=304}} (Some sources give the date as June 1722.){{cite journal|first=W. N.|last=Neill|title=The Last Execution for Witchcraft in Scotland, 1722|journal=Scottish Historical Review|volume=20|year=1923|pages=218–21|jstor=25519547}}
- Outbreak of smallpox on Hirta.{{cite web|title=National Records of Scotland|url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/stories-from-st-kilda|website=www.nrscotland.gov.uk|access-date=23 March 2018|language=en}}
- The first Palladian villa in Scotland, Mavisbank House, designed by William Adam in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, is completed.
Births
- 7 September – William Smith, Episcopalian priest and theologian, first provost of the University of Pennsylvania, poet and historian (died 1803 in the United States)
- Niel Gow, fiddler (died 1807)
Deaths
- Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw, ballad writer (born 1677)
See also
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