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1713 in Scotland

overview of Scotland-related events during the year of 1713

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ21997295 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events from the year 1713 in Scotland.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Scotland: The Earl of Mar

Law officers

Lord Advocate – Sir James Stewart

Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Kennedy jointly with Sir James Steuart, Bt.

Judiciary

Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord North Berwick

Lord Justice General – Lord Ilay

Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grange

Events

December – the post of Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow is established, considered as the foundation of the University of Glasgow School of Law.

The main radial roads into Edinburgh are turnpiked.

Editorial summary

“1713 in Scotland” enters the record as overview of Scotland-related events during the year of 1713. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scotland, overview and Scotland-related can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1713—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Scotland, overview and Scotland-related.
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“1713 in Scotland” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Scotland, overview and Scotland-related provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21997295. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1713.

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This entry incorporates text from “1713 in Scotland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.