1735 in Scotland

Events from the year 1735 in Scotland.

← 1734 1733 1732 1731 1730 1735 in Scotland → 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Scotland Timeline of Scottish history 1735 in: Great Britain • Wales • Elsewhere

Incumbents

Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland

• Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Erskine

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange, then Lord Milton

Events

• 8 August – Wade's Bridge, Aberfeldy, built and opened in 1733, is formally opened in the presence of General George Wade.

Births

• 22 January – Robert Aitken, printer and publisher in Philadelphia, first to publish an English language Bible in the U.S. (died 1802 in the United States)
• 17 May (bapt.) – John Brown, physician (died 1788 in London)
• 20 September – James Keir, geologist, chemist and industrialist (died 1820 in West Bromwich)
• 25 October – James Beattie, poet and moralist (died 1803)
• 14 November – John Howie, biographer (died 1793)
• James Tassie, portrait engraver (died 1799 in London)

Deaths

• 27 February – John Arbuthnot, satirist and polymath (born 1667; died in London)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history