1724 in Scotland

Events from the year 1724 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

 * c. March–November – Galloway "Levellers" dykebreaking in opposition to enclosures.
 * 24 December – General George Wade is appointed Commander in Chief in Scotland after his report on the need for military roads in the country.
 * Burcefield and Gardie Houses built.

Births

 * 20 March – Duncan Ban MacIntyre, Gaelic poet (died 1812)
 * 3 June – John Gregory, physician and moralist (died 1773)
 * 10 July – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (died 1758 in England)

Deaths

 * 14 November – John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, soldier and politician (born 1660 in England)

The arts

 * Allan Ramsay publishes The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems and co-writes and edits the first volume of The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs, in Scots and English.