1702 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1702 in the Kingdom of Scotland.

Incumbents

• • Monarch – William II (until 8 March), then Anne Secretary of State –
  • until 6 May: James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, jointly with John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford
  • 6 May – 21 November: James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, jointly with James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
  • from 21 November: James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, jointly with George Mackenzie, 1st Viscount Tarbat

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 Lothian
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Pollok, then Lord Prestonhall

Events

• c. January/February – the Parliament of Scotland refuses to pass an Abjuration Act analogous to the English Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701.
• 8 March – King William II of Scotland (William III of England and Ireland and Stadtholder of the Netherlands) dies in London following complications from a fall from his horse when it stumbles on a molehill and is succeeded by Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch on the English, Scottish and Irish thrones.
• May – "Women's riot" in Stirling in opposition to military impressment.^[1]
• The Advocates Library is moved from the Faculty of Advocates to Parliament House, Edinburgh.
• A General Election is held in autumn that would assemble the last Parliament of Scotland in May, 1703.

Births

• 8 May – Andrew Lauder, Baronet (died 1769)
• 18 July – Maria Clementina Sobieska, wife of James Francis Edward Stuart and mother of Charles Edward Stuart (born in Polish Silesia; died 1735 in Rome)
• 24 December – John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford, soldier (died of wounds 1749 in London)

Date unknown

• James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, astronomer (died 1768 in London)

Deaths

• 8 March – King William II of Scotland (born 1650 in the Netherlands)

Date unknown

• Sir Andrew Agnew, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

Notes and References

1. John G.. Harrison. Stirling Castle, the Army and the town c.1650-c.1900. Forth Naturalist and Historian. 34. 2011. 129–43.