• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Lord Balfour of Burleigh

Law officers edit

• Lord Advocate – Andrew Murray
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Dickson

Judiciary edit

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

• 22 January – the People's Palace on Glasgow Green opens.^[1]
• 18 October – Trinity Chain Pier at Trinity, Edinburgh, collapses in a storm.
• 1 November – completion throughout of the Highland Railway's Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway.
• The Madelvic Motor Carriage Company opens its factory for the manufacture of electric vehicles in Granton, Edinburgh, one of the first purpose-built car factories in the U.K. The company goes into liquidation in December 1899.^[2]
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh carries out the interior design for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Argyle Street, Glasgow, including the first appearance of his characteristic high-backed chair.
• Scottish-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie purchases Skibo Castle in Sutherland (which he has been leasing for a year).
• Construction of Glenborrodale Castle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula as a guest residence for mining magnate Charles Rudd by architect Sydney Mitchell begins.^[3]
• United Collieries Ltd formed in Glasgow to acquire coal mining companies.
• The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary.

• 13 February – Duncan Campbell, evangelical revivalist (died 1972)
• 7 April – Dorothy Renton, gardener (died 1966)
• 26 April – John Grierson, documentary film maker (died 1972 in England)
• 28 April – William Soutar, poet (died 1943)
• 18 July – John Stuart, actor (died 1979)
• 31 July – Doris Zinkeisen, theatrical designer and commercial artist (died 1991 in England)
• 11 September – John Meikle, winner of the Victoria Cross (killed 1918 on the Western Front (World War I))
• 27 December – W. C. Sellar, humourist (died 1951 in England)
• William Gillies, painter (died 1973)

• 21 July – William Alexander Hunter, academic lawyer and Liberal politician (born 1844)
• 16 October – John Ritchie Findlay, newspaper owner and philanthropist (born 1824)
• 7 November – Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Gaelic poet (born 1821)
• 10 December – William Black, novelist (born 1841)

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