1729 in Scotland

Events from the year 1729 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – 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

 * 8 January – two women arrested in Edinburgh for wearing men's clothing.
 * 6 August – Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh established as the "Hospital for the Sick Poor" or "Physicians' Hospital" in Edinburgh.
 * Mackintosh of Borlum publishes An essay on ways and means for inclosing, fallowing, planting, &c. Scotland; and that in sixteen years at farthest, "by a lover of his country", in Edinburgh.

Births

 * October – Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, born William Johnstone, advocate, landowner and politician (died 1805 in London)
 * William Buchan, physician (died 1805 in London)
 * John Moore, physician and writer (died 1802 in London)

Deaths

 * 21 March – John Law, economist (born 1671; died in Venice)
 * 13 September – Colen Campbell, architect (born 1676; died in London)
 * Gershom Carmichael, philosopher (born c. 1672)
 * Sìleas na Ceapaich, Gaelic poet (born c. 1660)

The arts

 * Society of St. Luke, Scotland's first art institute, established in Edinburgh.