1718 in Scotland

Events from the year 1718 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Sir David Dalrymple, 1st Baronet
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Robert Dundas

Judiciary

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

Events

 * Damask linen industry established at Dunfermline by James Blake and at Drumsheugh.
 * Marrow Controversy, an ecclesiastical dispute.
 * Old Calton Burial Ground established on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, by the Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton.
 * Edinburgh Evening Courant newspaper launched.
 * First passage to America of a ship built on the Clyde, and belonging to Glasgow.
 * Regius Chair of Anatomy and Botany at the University of Glasgow established.

Births

 * 18 February – Robert Henry, historian (died 1790)
 * 7 April – Hugh Blair, Presbyterian preacher and man of letters (died 1800)
 * 29 April – Robert Sandeman, theologian (died 1771 in Danbury, Connecticut)
 * 23 May – William Hunter, anatomist and obstetrician (died 1783 in London)

Deaths

 * 1 May – Sir Gilbert Elliot, 1st Baronet, of Minto, judge, politician and writer (born c. 1650)