1926 in Scotland

Events from the year 1926 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt until post abolished 26 July
 * Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal, from 15 July – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – William Watson
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Munro MacRobert

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Alness
 * Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

Events

 * 29 January – Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire by-elections: Conservatives retain the seats.
 * 26 March – Bothwell by-election: Labour retains the seat.
 * 3 – 12 May: 1926 United Kingdom general strike. Some violence in Glasgow.
 * 26 November – launch, under the auspices of the Scots National League, of a new monthly Nationalist newspaper entitled The Scots Independent.
 * Findhorn Bridge near Tomatin completed.
 * First stage of Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme constructed.
 * Scotland's only sugar beet processing plant is opened at Cupar.
 * Sacramento River sternwheel paddle steamers Delta King and Delta Queen are shipped from William Denny and Brothers' yard at Dumbarton to California.
 * The post of Secretary for Scotland upgraded to a full Secretary of State appointment

Births

 * 13 January – Craigie Aitchison, painter (died 2009)
 * 17 January – Moira Shearer, ballet dancer (died 2006 in England)
 * 11 February – Alexander Gibson, conductor and opera intendant (died 1995)
 * 19 February – Charlie Cox, footballer (died 2008)
 * 8 March – Edith MacArthur, actress (died 2018)
 * 12 March – Gudrun Ure, actress (died 2024)
 * 22 March – Alastair Reid, poet and scholar of South American literature (died 2014 in the United States)
 * 1 April – William Macpherson, High Court judge and clan chief (died 2021)
 * 3 April – Andrew Keir, actor (died 1997 in England)
 * 22 April – James Stirling, architect (died 1992 in England)
 * 24 May – Stanley Baxter, comic actor
 * 31 May – Duncan Campbell, trumpet player (died 2013 in England)
 * 2 July – Morag Beaton, dramatic soprano (died 2010 in Australia)
 * 3 August – Rona Anderson, actress (died 2013 in England)
 * 15 August – D. E. R. Watt, historian (died 2004)
 * 4 September – George William Gray, chemist, pioneer of liquid crystal technology (died 2013)
 * 12 September – Dave Valentine, international rugby player (died 1976)
 * 17 October – Archie Duncan, historian (died 2017)
 * 9 November – Johnny Beattie, comedian (died 2020)

Deaths

 * 2 January – John Gray McKendrick, physiologist, Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow (born 1841)
 * 3 February – Archibald White Maconochie, businessman and MP (born 1855)
 * 4 April – John McTavish footballer (born 1885)
 * 31 July – John McPherson, international footballer (born 1868)
 * 4 September – Alexander Morison McAldowie, physician, folklorist and ornithologist (born 1852)

The arts

 * 22 November – Hugh MacDiarmid's Scots language poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is published.