1738 in Scotland

Events from the year 1738 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Charles Erskine
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant of Prestongrange

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Culloden
 * Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Milton

Events

 * 22 May – foundation stone of George Watson's College in Edinburgh is laid.
 * Anderston Weavers' Society established in Glasgow.

Births

 * 19 May – Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet, politician (died 1811)
 * 12 December (bapt.) – William Cochran, portrait painter (died 1785)
 * 19 December – James Playfair, minister of religion and scholar (died 1819)
 * Alexander Henderson, merchant and politician in Virginia, "father of the American chain store" (died 1815 in the United States)
 * Probable date – James Dickson, botanist (died 1822 in London)

Deaths

 * 4 January – George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton, politician (born 1662)
 * 25 March – Robert Murray, British Army officer and politician (born 1689)