1902 in Scotland

Events from the year 1902 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

 * 5 April – The original Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match. 25 people die and 517 are injured.
 * 29 July – St Lawrence's Church opens.
 * 15 October – The North British Hotel in Edinburgh opens its doors for the first time.
 * 2 November – The first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia.
 * 10 November – Percival Spencer and the Rev. J. M. Bacon make the first-ever hot air balloon flight from the Isle of Man, landing in Dumfriesshire.
 * Pulteneytown merged into the burgh of Wick.

Births

 * 16 January (in China) – Eric Liddell, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary (died 1945 in a Japanese-run internment camp in China)
 * 26 March – Marion Cameron Gray, mathematician (died 1979)
 * 27 March – Kenneth Macpherson, cinematographer (died 1971 in Tuscany)
 * 24 July – Renée Houston, née Katherina Houston Gribbin, comedy actress (died 1980)
 * 19 August – Fyfe Robertson, television presenter (died 1987)
 * 28 October – Jenny Gilbertson, née Brown, documentary filmmaker (died 1990)

Deaths

 * 20 February – David MacGibbon, architect (born 1831)
 * 29 June – John Stuart McCaig of Muckairn and Soroba, creator of McCaig's Tower, Oban (born 1823)
 * 16 July – Henry Dunning Macleod, economist (born 1821)
 * 28 August – George Douglas Brown, novelist (born 1869)
 * 29 September – William McGonagall, weaver, doggerel poet and tragedian (born 1825)

The arts

 * First modern play in Scottish Gaelic staged, in Edinburgh.
 * The Classical Association of Scotland founded