1741 in Scotland

Events from the year 1741 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

 * 17 May – George Watson's College opens in Edinburgh as George Watson's Hospital.
 * Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh moves to a new building designed by William Adam.
 * Robert Foulis sets up a publishing business in Glasgow.
 * Leadhills Miners' Library set up.
 * Earliest known record of the Royal Order of Scotland within British Freemasonry.
 * 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot raised in Scotland as General John Mordaunt's Regiment of Foot.

Births

 * 2 March – James Stuart, British Army officer, commander-in-chief of the Madras Army (died 1815 in England)
 * 23 August – James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (died 1816)
 * 25 August – Henry Hunter, Presbyterian minister and translator (died 1802 in England)
 * James Moncrief, military engineer (died of wounds 1793 in Flanders)
 * William Russell, writer (died 1793)

Deaths

 * 18 March – Thomas Gordon, commodore in the Royal Scots Navy and admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy (born c. 1658; died in Russia)
 * November – John Ker, academic and Latin poet