1899 in Scotland

Events from the year 1899 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 to 21 November; then Lord Blair Balfour
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

Events

 * March – supposed last duel in Scotland, fought with swords in the University of Glasgow over the appointment of a Rector, perhaps a student hoax.
 * 13 March – Japanese battleship Asahi launched by John Brown & Company, Clydebank.
 * 16 June – Penicuik House gutted by fire.
 * July – Norman Heathcote climbs the St Kilda sea stack Stac Lee with his sister Evelyn.
 * November – English occultist Aleister Crowley purchases Boleskine House near Foyers on the shore of Loch Ness from the Fraser family, occupying it until 1913.
 * 7 December – Flannan Isles Lighthouse first lit.
 * 15 December – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
 * 30 December – the Albion Motor Car Company is set up in Glasgow; and the first Argyll car is also produced this year.
 * George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, presents Iona Abbey and other sacred sites of the island of Iona to the Iona Cathedral Trust (linked to the Church of Scotland).
 * First Skerries Bridge, linking Bruray to Housay in the Out Skerries, is built.

Births

 * 24 June – Bruce Marshall, writer (died 1987 in France)
 * 21 July – David Broadfoot, seaman awarded the George Cross for his role during the sinking of MV Princess Victoria (died 1959)
 * 8 October – Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan, civil engineer (died 1985 in England)

Deaths

 * 6 June – Robert Wallace, classics teacher, minister, university professor, newspaper editor, barrister and Member of Parliament (born 1831)
 * 14 September – William Watson, Baron Watson, former Lord Advocate (born 1827)