1720 in Scotland explained

Events from the year 1720 in Scotland.

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, then Robert Dundas
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas, then Walter Stewart

Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
• Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

Events

• A great storm cuts Rattray, Aberdeenshire, off from the open sea, creating the Loch of Strathbeg.
• The Caledonian Mercury newspaper begins publication in Edinburgh.
• Food riots in east coast towns from January to March.^[1]

Births

• 31 December – Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the British throne (born, and died 1788, in Rome)

Deaths

• 20 April – George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (born 1637)
• David Gregory, physician and inventor (born 1625)

See also

• Timeline of Scottish history

Notes and References

1. Whatley. Christopher. October 1999. The Union of 1707, Integration and the Scottish Burghs: The Case of the 1720 Food Riots. Scottish Historical Review. 78. 206. 192–218. 25530901.