1722 in Scotland

Events from the year 1722 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Binning

Judiciary

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

Events

 * 7 May – Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway construction begins.
 * Signet Library established in Edinburgh.
 * Pheasant introduced to Scotland.
 * Possible date – Burning of Janet Horne as a witch – see 1727 in Scotland.

Births

 * 26 January – Alexander Carlyle, Church of Scotland leader (died 1805)
 * 4 May – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, judge (died 1799)
 * 13 September – John Home, Episcopalian minister, playwright and writer (died 1808)
 * 16 September – Gabriel Christie, British Army general and settler in Quebec (died 1799 in Canada)
 * 1 December – Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish peer (died 1799)
 * date unknown
 * John Brown of Haddington, theologian (died 1787)
 * Flora MacDonald, Jacobite (died 1790)
 * Robert Smith, architect working in America (died 1777 in the United States)

Deaths

 * 28 February – William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian, army officer (born 1661)
 * 9 August – Robert Sibbald, polymath (born 1641)

The arts

 * William Aikman paints a portrait of the poet Allan Ramsay.
 * Physician Archibald Pitcairne writes the comedy The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation.