1717 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1717 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1717 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1717 in: Great Britain ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Sir James Stewart, Bt (possibly jointly with Robert Dundas)
Judiciary
Events
- 1 January â Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador to Great Britain, is arrested in London over a plot to assist the Pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.[1]
- February â as part of the Triple Alliance treaty between Britain and France, James Stuart leaves France and seeks refuge with the Pope.[1]
- July â Indemnity Act frees most Jacobites from imprisonment. The Clan Gregor are specifically excluded.
- Horse post introduced between Glasgow, Edinburgh and points north.[2]
- Carrbridge Packhorse Bridge built.
- Drummonds Bank is founded in London by Scottish goldsmith Andrew Drummond.
- Approximate date â the seminary at Scalan begins to train Roman Catholic priests.
Births
- 28 February â Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross, British Royal Navy admiral (died 1770)
- 28 June â Matthew Stewart, mathematician (died 1785)
- 29 June (bapt.) â James Robertson, British Army officer, governor of New York (died 1788 in London)
- July â William Duncan, natural philosopher and classicist (died 1760)
- 10 October â Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1807 in London)
- 3 November â Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee, judge and politician (died 1789)
Deaths
- 19 March â John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, royalist (born 1636)
- August â William Cochrane, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain (born after 1659)
- November â John Slezer, military engineer and topographical artist (born before 1650 perhaps in Germany)
- William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock, nobleman
