1722 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Scotland: The Duke of Roxburghe

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Robert Dundas
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Sinclair, jointly with Charles Binning

Judiciary

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

Events

• 7 May – Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway construction begins.
• Signet Library established in Edinburgh.
• Pheasant introduced to Scotland.
• Possible date – Burning of Janet Horne as a witch – see 1727 in Scotland.

Births

• 26 January – Alexander Carlyle, Church of Scotland leader
• 4 May – Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield, judge
• 13 September – John Home, Episcopalian minister, playwright and writer
• 16 September – Gabriel Christie, British Army general and settler in Quebec
• 1 December – Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish peer date unknown
• * John Brown of Haddington, theologian
• * Flora MacDonald, Jacobite
• * Robert Smith, architect working in America

Deaths

• 28 February – William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian, army officer
• 9 August – Robert Sibbald, polymath

The arts

• William Aikman paints a portrait of the poet Allan Ramsay.
• Physician Archibald Pitcairne writes the comedy The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation.