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List of events
Events from the year 1717 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
Births
- 28 February –
Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross, British Royal Navy admiral (died
1770)
- 28 June –
Matthew Stewart, mathematician (died
1785)
- 29 June (bapt.) –
James Robertson, British Army officer, governor of New York (died 1788 in London)
- July –
William Duncan, natural philosopher and classicist (died
1760)
- 10 October –
Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1807 in London)
- 3 November –
Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee, judge and politician (died
1789)
Deaths
See also
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