1732 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• 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

• This year's General Assembly of the Church of Scotland gives rise to the First Secession of 1733.
• Construction of a new Haddo House near Tarves in Aberdeenshire for William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, by William Adam in Georgian Palladian style begins.

  Births

• 21 February – William Falconer, poet
• 21 July – James Adam, architect
• 6 October – John Broadwood, piano maker

  Deaths

• 20 May – Thomas Boston, church leader