Events from the year 1714 in Scotland.

Incumbents

* Secretary of State for Scotland: The Earl of Mar to 24 September; then The Duke of Montrose

Law officers

Lord Advocate His Majesty's Advocate, known as the Lord Advocate ( gd, Morair Tagraidh, sco, Laird Advocat), is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved p ...

– Thomas Kennedy of Dunure *

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– Sir James Stewart, Bt jointly with John Carnegie of Boyseck

Judiciary

Lord President of the Court of Session The Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General is the most senior judge in Scotland, the head of the judiciary, and the presiding judge of the College of Justice, the Court of Session, and the High Court of Justiciary. The L ...

– Lord North Berwick *

Lord Justice General Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are ...

– Lord Ilay *

Lord Justice Clerk The Lord Justice Clerk is the second most senior judge in Scotland, after the Lord President of the Court of Session. Originally ''clericus justiciarie'' or Clerk to the Court of Justiciary, the counterpart in the criminal courts of the Lord ...

– Lord Grange

Events

* July – first Catholic

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in Britain opens at Eilean Bàn on

Loch Morar Loch Morar (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Mòrair) is a freshwater loch in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It is the fifth-largest loch by surface area in Scotland, at , and the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles with a maximum depth of . The l ...

. *August 1 – George Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, succeeds his distant relative Queen

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as King

George I of Great Britain George I (George Louis; ; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first ...

. This event becomes the catalyst to the

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. Jacobite supporters of James Stuart as heir to the throne began to organise after Queen Anne died, ending the blood line of House of Stuart and resulting in the succession of George of Hanover. * Commissioners of Police for Scotland appointed. * The first Regius Professor of Law at the

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, William Forbes, is appointed. * Kirkcaldy Brick and Tile Works established on the Links.

Births

* 14 April –

Adam Gib Adam Gib (15 April 1714 – 14 June 1788) was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church. He reportedly wrote his first covenant with God in the blood of his own veins. Gib was born in the ...

, religious leader (died

1788 Events January–March * January 1 – The first edition of ''The Times'', previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published in London. * January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S ...

) * 6 September – Robert Whytt, physician (died 1766 in Scotland, 1766) * 25 October ''(bapt.)'' – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, judge and comparative linguist (died 1799 in Scotland, 1799) * 4 November – John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow (died 1775 in Scotland, 1775) * Rob Donn, Gaelic poet (died 1778 in Scotland, 1778) * Alexander Garden (politician), Alexander Garden, politician (died 1785 in Scotland, 1785) * Alexander Wilson (astronomer), Alexander Wilson, surgeon, type founder, astronomer, meteorologist and mathematician (died 1786 in Scotland, 1786)

Deaths

* 1 August – Anne, Queen of Great Britain, last Stuart monarch (born 1665 in England) * 17 August – George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie, Secretary of State for Scotland (born 1630) * Robert Ferguson (minister), Robert Ferguson, presbyterian minister and political conspirator (born c. 1637)

References

{{Years in Scotland , state=collapsed 1714 in Scotland, Years of the 18th century in Scotland 1714 in Great Britain, Scotland 1710s in Scotland