1723 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1723 in Scotland.

Incumbents

8 June – The Honourable Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland is formed in Edinburgh by over 300 landowners, part of the Scottish Enlightenment.^[1]
11 November – 18 people drown in the River Tweed near Melrose when a ferry boat capsizes.^[1]

3 February – Catherine Read, portrait painter (died 1778 at sea)
c. 5 February (16 February NS) – John Witherspoon, Presbyterian minister, a Founding Father of the U.S. and President of the College of New Jersey (modern-day Princeton University; died 1794 in the United States)
23 February – William Chambers, architect (born in Gothenburg; died 1796 in London)
5 June (baptized; 16 June NS) – Adam Smith, economist and philosopher (died 1790)
20 June (1 July NS) – Adam Ferguson, philosopher and social historian (died 1816)
29 August – William Dalrymple, Church of Scotland minister (died 1814)
Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh, Jacobite (died 1784)
Gavin Hamilton, neoclassical history painter, archaeologist and dealer (died 1798 in Rome)
Francis Peacock, "father of Scottish country dance" (died 1807)

Mavisbank House in Midlothian is designed by William Adam^[2] in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, and construction begins; it is the first Palladian villa in Scotland.^[3]
Cairney-born painter William Aikman settles in London as a portraitist under the patronage of John Campbell, Duke of Argyll.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "Notable Dates in History". The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
^ Colvin, Howard (1978). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840. London: John Murray. ISBN 0719533287.
^ Cruickshank, Dan (1985). A Guide to the Georgian Buildings of Britain & Ireland. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 226–7. ISBN 0-297-78610-5.
^ "Aikman, William". ElectricScotland. Retrieved 16 April 2012.