1908 in Scotland

Events from the year 1908 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

 * 26 January – the 1st Glasgow Scout Group is granted the oldest Scout Group registration known.
 * 25 April – Kincardineshire by-election: Arthur Murray holds the seat for the Liberal Party.
 * 1 May–31 October – Scottish National Exhibition held in Saughton Park, Edinburgh.
 * 9 May – Dundee by-election: Winston Churchill holds the seat for the Liberal Party.
 * May – Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club formed.
 * 14 July – first ship launched from Yarrow Shipbuilders' new yard at Scotstoun, the first Pará-class destroyer for the Brazilian Navy.
 * 11–12 August: Sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics: The 12-metre class is contested from Hunters Quay on the Firth of Clyde and won by Thomas C. Glen-Coats' Hera.
 * St Mary's Episcopal Church in Glasgow is raised to the status of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, within the Scottish Episcopal Church.
 * Walter Robberds, Bishop of Brechin, becomes Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, an office he will hold until 1934.
 * Eskdalemuir Observatory opened for geophysical and meteorological recording.
 * West Highland White Terrier first so named as a breed.
 * Perth Racecourse, the most northerly in Britain, opened for National Hunt racing.

Births

 * 20 January – Ian Peebles, cricketer (died 1980)
 * 28 January – Jimmy Shand, accordionist and bandleader (died 2000)
 * 2 February – J. K. Annand, poet and founding editor of Lallans magazine (died 1993)
 * 15 April – Denis Devlin, Irish modernist poet and diplomat (died 1959 in Ireland)
 * 22 April – Leonard Schapiro, scholar of Russian politics (died 1983 in London)
 * 27 April – Mary Docherty, Communist activist (died 2000)
 * 23 May – Duncan Black, economist (died 1991 in Paignton)
 * 5 June – Bill Fraser, stage and screen actor (died 1987 in Hertfordshire)
 * 7 June – Thomas Cook, Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for constituencies in Dundee 1945–52; died 1952)
 * 10 June – Russell Waters, stage and screen actor (died 1982 in London)
 * 12 June – Ronnie Selby Wright, Church of Scotland minister (died 1995)
 * 23 August – Hannah Frank, visual artist (died 2008)
 * 24 August – Ian Garrow, army officer (died 1976)
 * 19 October – Sydney MacEwan, singer and priest (died 1991)
 * 28 October – Angus MacVicar, writer (died 2001)
 * Jeannie Robertson, folk singer (died 1975)

Deaths

 * 25 January – Sir Thomas McCall Anderson, professor of practice of medicine (born 1836)
 * 30 January – James Bell Pettigrew, naturalist and museum curator (born 1834)
 * 22 March – John William Crombie, Liberal MP for Kincardineshire (1892–1908) (born 1858)
 * 24 March – Sir James David Marwick, lawyer, historian and town clerk (born 1826)
 * 13 May – Louisa Stevenson, campaigner for women's rights (born 1835)
 * 7 June – William Lithgow, shipbuilder (born 1854)
 * 25 October – Lewis Campbell, classicist (born 1830)
 * 19 December – Thomas Lomar Gray, engineer, noted for his pioneering work in seismology (born 1850)
 * Joseph Henderson, artist (born 1832)
 * John James Stevenson, architect (born 1831)

The arts

 * Mary and Jane Findlater's novel Crossriggs is published.