1900 in Scotland

Events from the year 1900 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 Blair Balfour
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

Events

 * 23 March – SS Sir Walter Scott enters excursion service on Loch Katrine.
 * 23 April–12 May – the Automobile Club of Great Britain stages a Thousand Mile Trial, a reliability motor rally over a circular route from London to Edinburgh and return.
 * May – the Migdale Hoard of early Bronze Age jewellery is discovered near Bonar Bridge.
 * September–November – Queen Victoria pays her last visit to Balmoral Castle.
 * 31 October – the United Free Church of Scotland is formed by union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland.
 * 15 December – all three keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse are drowned.
 * 21 December – Delting disaster: four fishing boats with 22 crew from the Shetland villages of Mossbank and Firth (in the parish of Delting) are lost in a storm.
 * Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the White Dining Room for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Ingram Street, Glasgow.
 * Margaret Barr Fulton begins work as the UK's first qualified occupational therapist at Aberdeen Royal Lunatic Asylum.
 * Nordrach on Dee sanatorium at Banchory opens, the first such specialist establishment in Scotland for tuberculosis patients.

Births

 * 6 February – Guy Warrack, conductor (died 1986)
 * 14 March – Margaret Kidd, lawyer (died 1989)
 * 29 March – Margaret Sinclair, nun (died 1925)
 * 29 May – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor (died 1967)
 * 17 June – Evelyn Irons, journalist, war correspondent (died 2000)
 * 30 June – James Stagg, meteorologist (died 1975)
 * 13 July – Bessie Watson, child suffragette and piper (died 1992)
 * 25 August – Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie, architect (died 1970)
 * 9 October – Alastair Sim, character actor on stage and screen (died 1976)
 * 12 December – David Meiklejohn, international footballer (died 1959)
 * Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah, born Elizabeth Louise MacKenzie, writer as Morag Murray Abdullah (died 1960)

Deaths

 * 15 May – Hercules Linton, shipbuilder (born 1837)
 * 30 May – Francis Moncreiff, international rugby union player and Scotland's first captain (born 1849)
 * 9 October – John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, landowner (born 1847)

The arts

 * Doric dialect poet Charles Murray publishes Hamewith, including "The Whistle".