title: 1682 in Scotland
text: # 1682 in Scotland
  
  Events from the year 1682 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Charles II
  
  ### Judiciary
  
  * Lord President of the Court of Session – Sir David Falconer from 5 June
  * Lord Justice General – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen; James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth
  * Lord Justice Clerk – Sir Richard Maitland
  
  ## Events
  
  * 11 February – William Douglas is elevated to the rank of Marquess of Queensberry in the Peerage of Scotland.
  * Advocates Library is founded as the law library of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh.
  * Chair of Professor of Humanity created at the University of Glasgow.
  * Probable date – Inuit seen in Orkney.
  * Ongoing – The Killing Time.
  
  ## Births
  
  * April – James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, nobleman and statesman (died 1742)
  * June (in England) – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, nobleman, politician, lawyer, businessman and soldier (died 1761)
  * 24 October – William Aikman, portrait painter (died 1731)
  * 23 December – James Gibbs, architect (died 1754)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 6 May (in wreck of HMS Gloucester)
     * Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe (born c. 1658)
     * Sir John Hope of Hopetoun
  * 24 August (in England) – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, politician (born 1616)
  * David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, cavalry officer (born c.1600)
  