1898 in Scotland

Events from the year 1898 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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

Law officers

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

Judiciary

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

Events

 * 22 January – the People's Palace on Glasgow Green opens.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * United Collieries Ltd formed in Glasgow to acquire coal mining companies.
 * The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary.

Births

 * 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)

Deaths

 * 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)