title: 1730 in Scotland
text: # 1730 in Scotland
  
  Events from the year 1730 in Scotland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
  
  ### Law officers
  
  * Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
  * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine
  
  ### Judiciary
  
  * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
  * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
  * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange
  
  ## Events
  
  * 12 March – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.
  * The Glasgow Linen Society is formed.
  * Francis Hutcheson takes office as Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, where he will lecture in English rather than Latin.
  * Iron smelting at Abernethy using ore from Tomintoul.
  * Perth–Dunkeld–Inverness road completed.
  * Lebanon cedar tree introduced to Scotland.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 14 December – James Bruce, explorer of the Nile (died 1794)
  * John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, governor of the Province of New York (died 1809 in England)
  * Probable year – Charlotte Lennox, novelist and poet (born in Gibraltar; died 1804 in England)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 25 December – Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine, army officer (born 1676)
  * James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale, art collector (born c. 1687/8; died in Italy)
  
  ## The arts
  
  * James Thomson's poem cycle The Seasons is first published complete.
  