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    • Source: 1708 in Scotland

      • Events from the year 1708 in Scotland.


      Incumbents


      Secretary of State for Scotland: The Earl of Mar


      = Law officers

      =
      Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart
      Solicitor General for Scotland – William Carmichael


      = Judiciary

      =
      Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
      Lord Justice General – Lord Tarbat
      Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Ormiston


      Events


      11 March – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
      23 March – James Francis Edward Stuart unsuccessfully tries to land at Burntisland on the Firth of Forth with a French fleet.
      30 April – 7 July – British general election: New Scottish Westminster constituencies are used for the first time.
      1 May – Privy Council of Scotland abolished.
      Treason Act harmonises the law of high treason in Scotland with that of England.
      Chairs of Moral Philosophy and of Logic & Metaphysics established in the University of Edinburgh. Regent system of teaching here abolished.


      Births


      15 February – Alexander Hume-Campbell, nobleman and politician (died 1760)
      8 March – John Campbell, author (died 1775)
      Date unknown

      Thomas Gillespie, Presbyterian minister and founder of the Relief Church (died 1774)
      William Guthrie, historian (died 1770)


      Deaths


      21 June – John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Belhaven and Stenton, anti-Union politician (born 1656; died in London)
      10 October – David Gregory, mathematician and astronomer (born 1659)
      16 November – Alexander Edward, Episcopalian minister, architect and landscape designer (born 1651)


      See also


      1708 in Great Britain


      References

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