1907 in Scotland

Events from the year 1907 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure

Judiciary

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

Events

 * 5 February – epidemic of meningitis in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast
 * 24 April – Titan Clydebank crane first operates at John Brown & Company's shipyard
 * 24 August – last horse trams in Edinburgh operate
 * 18 September – Andrew Carnegie receives the freedom of Burntisland
 * New Ayr Racecourse opens
 * Edinburgh College of Art gains its present name and site
 * The Moine Thrust Belt in the Scottish Highlands is identified, one of the first to be discovered
 * Scottish wildcat first scientifically classified
 * Limited Partnership Act regulates Scottish limited partnerships

Births

 * 2 January – Robert Wilson, tenor (died 1964)
 * 4 January – Walter Donaldson, snooker player (died 1973 in England)
 * 28 January – Robert McLellan, playwright (died 1985)
 * 4 February – James McIntosh Patrick, landscape painter (died 1998)
 * 16 April – Martin Boddey, film and television actor (died 1975 in London)
 * 22 May – Huw Lorimer, sculptor (died 1993)
 * 13 August – Sir Basil Spence, architect (died 1976 in Yaxley, Suffolk)
 * 28 August – Tom Hanlin, novelist (died 1953)
 * 2 October – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1997 in England)
 * 7 October – Helen MacInnes, espionage novelist (died 1985 in the United States)
 * 4 November – Ferguson Rodger, physician (died 1978)
 * 5 December – William Barclay, Professor of Divinity (died 1978)
 * 25 December – Andrew Cruickshank, actor (died 1988 in England)
 * Jameson Clark, character actor (died 1984)
 * Dr Catherine Gavin, academic historian, war correspondent and historical novelist (died 2000)
 * Betty Henderson, actress (died 1979)

Deaths

 * 21 January – John Hunt, cleric, theologian and historian (born 1829)
 * 4 April – Alexander Macbain, philologist (born 1855)
 * 13 May – Alexander Buchan, meteorologist oceanographer and botanist (born 1827)
 * 19 July – William Gunion Rutherford, classicist (born 1853)
 * 30 August – James Adam, classicist (born 1860)
 * 6 October – David Masson, literary critic and historian (born 1822)
 * 4 November – Rev. Dr. Robert Blair, minister of religion and Gaelic scholar (born 1837)
 * 6 November – James Hector, geologist, naturalist and surgeon (born 1834)
 * 17 December – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, physicist (born 1824 in Ireland)
 * Jane Arthur, feminist and activist (born 1827)