1692 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1692 in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – William II and Mary II
- Secretary of State – John Dalrymple, Master of Stair, with James Johnston (from 3 March)
Law officers
[edit]Judiciary
[edit]- Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Stair
- Lord Justice General – Lord Lothian
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Cessnock, then Lord Ormiston
Events
[edit]- 13 February – Massacre of Glencoe: Men of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot under the command of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon massacre 38 Jacobite-sympathising MacDonald of Glencoe from whom they have previously accepted hospitality.[1]
Births
[edit]- May – James Stirling mathematician, (died 1770)
- 25 May – Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, peer, mortally wounded at the Battle of Sheriffmuir (died 1715)
- date unknown –
- Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, judge and Lord Justice Clerk (died 1776)
- George Young, surgeon, physician, philosopher and empiric (died 1757)
Deaths
[edit]- 20 March – George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, nobleman and soldier (born 1635)
- 2 April – Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, baillie and Treasurer of the City of Edinburgh (born 1595)
- 14 May – Robert Kirk, minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist (born 1644)
- 3 August –
- Hugh Mackay, general, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born c.1642)
- James Douglas, Earl of Angus, nobleman and soldier, died at the Battle of Steenkerque (born 1671)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Prebble, John (1966). Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre. London: Secker & Warburg.