1927 in Scotland

Events from the year 1927 in Scotland.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – 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

 * 28–30 January – gale-force winds batter the British Isles, with a gust of 90 kn recorded in Paisley and 23 killed.
 * 23 March – Leith by-election: Liberals hold seat.
 * 16 April – the Scottish Cup Final is broadcast live on radio for the first time. Celtic F.C. beat East Fife 3–1.
 * 12 July – official opening in Glasgow of the new Kelvin Hall exhibition venue and George V Bridge.
 * 14 July – the Scottish National War Memorial is opened at Edinburgh Castle (architect: Robert Lorimer).
 * 26 September – David MacBrayne's paddle steamer Grenadier (1885) catches fire and sinks at her overnight mooring in Oban with the loss of three crew.
 * October – a school of pilot whales runs aground in the bay between Bonar Bridge and Ardgay.
 * Undated
 * The Gillespie, Kidd & Coia architectural practice in Glasgow assumes this name.
 * Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association formed.
 * The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary, revised edition.

Births

 * 24 January – Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, lieutenant (died 2007)
 * 16 February – Pearse Hutchinson, poet, broadcaster and translator (died 2012 in Ireland)
 * 23 February – Willie Ormond, international footballer and manager (died 1984)
 * 27 February – Jimmy Halliday, Scottish National Party leader (died 2013)
 * 5 March – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, politician (died 2023)
 * 5 April – Colin Young, film educator (died 2021)
 * 6 April – Nancy Riach, swimmer (died at 1947 European Aquatics Championships in Monte Carlo)
 * 12 April – Patrick Meehan, criminal, victim of a miscarriage of justice (died 1994 in Swansea)
 * 23 June – Kenneth McKellar, tenor (died 2010)
 * 29 June – Tom Fleming, actor, director, poet and broadcast commentator (died 2010)
 * 2 July – James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, Lord Chancellor
 * 1 October – Sandy Gall, television journalist (born in Penang)
 * 5 October – Bruce Millan, Labour Secretary of State for Scotland (died 2013)
 * 7 October – R. D. Laing, psychiatrist (died 1989 in Saint-Tropez)
 * 10 October – Thomas Wilson, composer (died 2001)
 * 31 October – Charles Cameron, bizarre magician (died 2001)
 * 7 November – Melissa Stribling, film and television actress (died 1992 in Watford)
 * 27 November – Arnold Clark, businessman (died 2017)
 * 24 December – John Glashan, born McGlashan, cartoonist (died 1999)
 * Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, conservation architect (died 2023)

Deaths

 * 16 January – Haldane Burgess historian, poet, novelist, violinist, linguist and socialist, a noted figure in Shetland's cultural history (born 1862)
 * 16 March – Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet, civil servant, writer and Unionist politician (born 1846; died in London)
 * 17 March – James Scott Skinner, dancing master, fiddler and composer (born 1843)
 * 26 June – Thomas P. Marwick, architect (born 1854)
 * 8 July – Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll, soldier and Conservative politician (born 1852)
 * 21 July – William Campbell, Lord Skerrington, judge (born 1855)
 * September – John George Govan businessman and evangelist, founder of The Faith Mission in 1886 (born 1861)
 * 10 November – James Thomson, City Engineer, City Architect and Housing Director of Dundee (born 1852)

The arts

 * 15 September – Green's Playhouse opens in Glasgow, the largest cinema in Europe at this date.
 * Joe Corrie's play In Time o' Strife, showing the effect of the General Strike on the Fife coal mining community, is first performed; and his The Image o' God and Other Poems is published.
 * Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland formed.