1727 in Scotland

none January 2016 July 2026 1727 Events from the year 1727 in Scotland. Incumbents 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 Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange Events 31 May – the Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by Royal Charter in Edinburgh.1727 The People's Chronology Everett, Jason M. Thomson Gale 2006 Co-founder Lord Ilay is its first governor. Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland established.W. R. Kermack 19 Centuries of Scotland Edinburgh Johnston 1944 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.http://www.historylinks.org.uk/Dornoch18.htm Dornoch in the 18th century Historylinks Museum 2010-08-27 6 July 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160706092638/http://historylinks.org.uk/Dornoch18.htm deadK. M. Sheard Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names: For Pagans, Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, Mages, Shamans & Independent Thinkers of All Sorts Who Are Curious about Names https://books.google.com/books?id=FVyHTUQnnBgC&pg=PA304 2012-06-28 2011-12-08 Llewellyn Worldwide 978-0-7387-2368-6 304 (Some sources give the date as June 1722.)W. N. Neill The Last Execution for Witchcraft in Scotland, 1722 Scottish Historical Review 20 1923 218–21 25519547 Outbreak of smallpox on Hirta.National Records of Scotland https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/stories-from-st-kilda www.nrscotland.gov.uk 23 March 2018 en 8 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210208114918/https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/features/stories-from-st-kilda dead 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 Scotland Timeline of Scottish history References collapsed Category:Years of the 18th century in Scotland Scotland Category:1720s in Scotland Scotland