1725 in Scotland

Events from the year 1725 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe, until August; office vacant thereafter

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas, then Duncan Forbes
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Binning; then John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Erskine

Judiciary

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

Events

 * 12 May – the Black Watch is raised as a military company as part of the pacification of the Highlands under General George Wade.
 * 22 June – malt riots in Glasgow against higher taxes on Scottish malt used in the production of distilled beverages. Wade's troops enter the city.
 * August – John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe, resigns as Secretary of State for Scotland; the post remains vacant until 1742.
 * A second Disarming Act is passed as part of the pacification of the Highlands.
 * Mining of minerals at Strontian begins.
 * One of the earliest examples of a steam pump in Scotland is installed for draining coal mines at Edmonstone in Midlothian.
 * Barony of Calton, including Calton Hill, purchased by the city of Edinburgh.
 * James Anderson of Stobcross House feues out land near Glasgow for weavers cottages; the area is named Anderson Town in his honour, later becoming Anderston.

Births

 * 6 March – Henry Benedict Stuart, cardinal and Jacobite claimant to the British throne (born, and died 1807, in Italy)
 * 17 March – Lachlan McIntosh, military and political leader in America (died 1806 in the United States)
 * 10 November – John Hope, physician and botanist (died 1786)

Deaths

 * 8 October – Sir William Scott of Thirlestane, lawyer and neo-Latin poet (born 1645)
 * Alexander Nisbet, heraldist (born 1657)

The arts

 * Poet James Thomson moves to London.
 * Allan Ramsay publishes The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots pastoral comedy.
 * William Thomson compiles Orpheus Caledonius: or a Collection of the Best Scotch Songs.