1895 in Scotland

Events from the year 1895 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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

Law officers

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

Judiciary

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

Events

 * 11 February – the lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2 °C (measured as -17 °F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. (This UK Weather Record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.)
 * 11 April – electric light is introduced in Edinburgh.
 * 13 April – first cremation in Scotland's first crematorium, at Glasgow's Western Necropolis.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Sule Skerry lighthouse completed.
 * New Dunoon Pier built.
 * New offices for The Glasgow Herald (later The Lighthouse), designed by John Keppie 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.

Births

 * 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)

Deaths

 * 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)