1958 in Scotland

Events from the year 1958 in Scotland.

Incumbents

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

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson
 * Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

Events

 * 13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Conservatives
 * May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality
 * 3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways last operate, leaving Glasgow as the only system in Scotland
 * 20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured
 * 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow
 * 4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts
 * 11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders
 * 18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued
 * 1 September – first of the 'Cod Wars' between the U.K. and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out
 * 15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line
 * 19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal
 * October – Thurso High School opened
 * 21 November – construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins
 * 5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the U.K. telephone network when The Queen dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost
 * 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time
 * Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison

Births

 * 30 January – Derek White, rugby player
 * 9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer
 * 22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor
 * 27 March – Peter Howson, figurative painter, war artist
 * 14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor
 * 25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
 * 26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver (died 2021)
 * 3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter
 * 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer
 * 2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress
 * 17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker
 * 30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster
 * 20 September – Maureen Baker, physician
 * 27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer
 * Christina McAnea, trade union leader
 * Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist
 * James Robertson, novelist
 * Adrian Wiszniewski, figurative painter

Deaths

 * 8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888)
 * 29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861)
 * 2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875)
 * 3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872)
 * 19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)

The arts

 * 7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968