1718 in Scotland
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List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1718 in: Great Britain • Ireland • Elsewhere |
Events from the year 1718 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session — Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General — Lord Ilay
- Lord Justice Clerk — Lord Grange
Events
- Damask linen industry established at Dunfermline by James Blake[1] and at Drumsheugh.
- Marrow Controversy, an ecclesiastical dispute.[2]
- Old Calton Burial Ground established on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, by the Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton.
- Edinburgh Evening Courant newspaper launched.
- First passage to America of a ship built on the Clyde, and belonging to Glasgow.
- Regius Chair of Anatomy and Botany at the University of Glasgow established.
Births
- 18 February — Robert Henry, historian (born 1790)[3]
- 7 April — Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (died 1800)
- 29 April — Robert Sandeman, theologian (died 1771 in Danbury, Connecticut)
- 23 May — William Hunter, anatomist and obstetrician (died 1783 in London)
Deaths
- 1 May — Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet, of Minto, judge, politician and writer (born c. 1650)
See also
References
- ↑ Pearson, John M. (2000). Around Dunfermline (2nd ed.). Leven: J.M Pearson. p. 10. ISBN 1-90065-103-3.
- ↑ Schaff, Philip (1819–1893). "New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge". Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- ↑ Nimmo, William (1880). The History of Stirlingshire, revised by W. M. Stirling and R. Gillespie.
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