1741 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1741 in Scotland.
Incumbents
- Monarch – George II
- Secretary of State for Scotland: vacant
Law officers
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
