1711 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1711 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1711 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1711 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
- Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Queensberry, until 6 July; then The Earl of Mar
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet; then Sir James Stewart
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Thomas Kennedy jointly with Sir James Steuart, Bt.
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session â Lord North Berwick
- Lord Justice General â Lord Ilay (appointed this year to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
- Lord Justice Clerk â Lord Grange
Events
- 5 April (Easter Sunday) â Elgin Cathedral's central tower collapses.[1]
- 7 November â Dutch East Indiaman Liefde runs aground and sinks off Out Skerries, Shetland with the loss of all but one of her 300 crew.
- Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1711 (becoming law 1 May 1712) restores the right of patrons to present ministers to Church of Scotland churches.
- Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711 (becoming law 3 March 1712) tolerates the right of the Scottish Episcopal Church to continue its Anglican form of liturgy and communion.
- Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company founded at Greenock.
- Weir constructed at Forestmill on the Black Devon by George Sorocold to feed Gartmorn Dam reservoir.[2]
- Export duty on linen.[1]
Births
- 26 April â David Hume, philosopher and economist (died 1776)
- 12 October â William Tytler, historian (died 1792)
Date unknown
- Alan Breck Stewart, Jacobite (died c. 1791 in exile)
Deaths
- 6 July â James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, politician (born 1662; died in London)
Date unknown
- Sir James Foulis, 3rd Baronet, judge (born c.â1645)
- Adam Brown of Blackford, Lord Provost of Edinburgh died in office
The arts
- Publication of Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems edited by James Watson concludes in Edinburgh.
