• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, to 29 June; then Lord Balfour of Burleigh

Law officers edit

• Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour until July; then Sir Charles Pearson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Shaw; then Andrew Murray

Judiciary edit

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

• 11 February – the lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2 °C (measured as -17 °F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.^[1] (This UK Weather Record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.)
• 11 April – electric light is introduced in Edinburgh.^[2]
• 13 April – first cremation in Scotland's first crematorium, at Glasgow's Western Necropolis.^[3]
• July–August – second "Race to the North": Operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Aberdeen.
• 28 October
  • The Daily Record newspaper is first published.
  • Probable date of the first car shipped into Scotland, a Panhard for Glasgow engineer George Johnston.^[4]
• Percy Pilcher flies in several versions of his hang glider Bat at Cardross, Argyll, the first person to make repeated heavier-than-air flights in the UK.^[5][6]
• Sule Skerry lighthouse completed.
• New Dunoon Pier built.
• New offices for The Glasgow Herald (later The Lighthouse), designed by John Keppie^[7] and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
• New premises for Jenners department store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, completed.
• The North British Aluminium Company builds Britain's first aluminium smelting plant on the shore of Loch Ness at Foyers.
• Babcock & Wilcox Ltd establish a manufacturing facility at Renfrew based on the existing Porterfield Foundry.
• Paterson's begin baking oatcakes in Rutherglen.^[8]

• 2 March – Hughie Ferguson, footballer (suicide 1930)
• 9 March – Isobel Baillie, soprano (died 1983)
• 29 March – Anne Redpath, still life painter (died 1965)
• 19 May – Charles Sorley, poet (killed in action 1915)
• 17 June – George MacLeod, soldier and minister of religion (died 1991)
• 16 July – Hay Petrie, character actor (died 1948)
• 25 August – R. D. Low, comics writer and editor (died 1980)
• 3 October – George Henry Tatham Paton, recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1917)

• 18 June – Lord Colin Campbell, Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885 and probable adulterer (born 1853)
• 22 August – Peter Denny, shipbuilder and owner (born 1821)
• George Thompson, shipowner and politician (born 1804)

• Timeline of Scottish history
• 1895 in Ireland