1711 in Scotland

Events from the year 1711 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Queensberry, until 6 July; then The Earl of Mar

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet; then Sir James Stewart
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Kennedy jointly with Sir James Steuart, Bt.

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick
 * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay (appointed this year to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

Events

 * 5 April (Easter Sunday) – Elgin Cathedral's central tower collapses.
 * 7 November – Dutch East Indiaman Liefde runs aground and sinks off Out Skerries, Shetland with the loss of all but one of her 300 crew.
 * Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1711 (becoming law 1 May 1712) restores the right of patrons to present ministers to Church of Scotland churches.
 * Scottish Episcopalians Act 1711 (becoming law 3 March 1712) tolerates the right of the Scottish Episcopal Church to continue its Anglican form of liturgy and communion.
 * Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company founded at Greenock.
 * Weir constructed at Forestmill on the Black Devon by George Sorocold to feed Gartmorn Dam reservoir.
 * Export duty on linen.

Births
Date unknown
 * 26 April – David Hume, philosopher and economist (died 1776)
 * 12 October – William Tytler, historian (died 1792)
 * Alan Breck Stewart, Jacobite (died c. 1791 in exile)

Deaths
Date unknown
 * 6 July – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, politician (born 1662; died in London)
 * Sir James Foulis, 3rd Baronet, judge (born c. 1645)
 * Adam Brown of Blackford, Lord Provost of Edinburgh died in office

The arts

 * Publication of Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems edited by James Watson concludes in Edinburgh.