1737 in Scotland

Events from the year 1737 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Duncan Forbes, then Charles Erskine
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Erskine, then William Grant of Prestongrange

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick until 20 June; then Lord Culloden
 * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton

Events

 * The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is debarred from office following the previous year's Porteous Riots.
 * Aberdeen Royal Infirmary founded as Woolmanhill Hospital.
 * Royal Society of Edinburgh formed as the Edinburgh Society for Improving Arts and Sciences and particularly Natural Knowledge.
 * Kilmichael Bridge in Argyll built.
 * Construction of a new Glasgow town hall begins.
 * Andrew Rodger, a farmer on the estate of Cavers, south Roxburghshire, develops a winnowing machine for corn, called a 'fanner'.

Births

 * 25 March (bapt.) – William Forsyth, horticulturist (died 1804 in London)
 * 17 July – John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, born John Lyon (died 1776 at sea)
 * 29 August – John Hunter, Royal Navy officer and governor of New South Wales (died 1821 in London)
 * 14 September – Alexander Geddes, Catholic theologian and scholar (died 1802 in London)
 * James Clark, physician and plantation owner in Dominica (died 1819 in London)
 * John Donaldson, miniature painter (died 1801 in London)

Deaths

 * 29 January – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, soldier (born 1666; died in London)
 * 1 February – Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick, judge and politician (born 1652)

The arts

 * Allan Ramsay co-writes and edits the last volume of The Tea-Table Miscellany, a collection of Scots songs.