1898 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Lord Balfour of Burleigh

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Andrew Murray
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Dickson

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

  Events

• 22 January – the People's Palace on Glasgow Green opens.
• 18 October – Trinity Chain Pier at Trinity, Edinburgh, collapses in a storm.
• 1 November – completion throughout of the Highland Railway's Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway.
• The Madelvic Motor Carriage Company opens its factory for the manufacture of electric vehicles in Granton, Edinburgh, one of the first purpose-built car factories in the U.K. The company goes into liquidation in December 1899.
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh carries out the interior design for Catherine Cranston's tearooms in Argyle Street, Glasgow, including the first appearance of his characteristic high-backed chair.
• Scottish-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie purchases Skibo Castle in Sutherland.
• Construction of Glenborrodale Castle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula as a guest residence for mining magnate Charles Rudd by architect Sydney Mitchell begins.
• United Collieries Ltd formed in Glasgow to acquire coal mining companies.
• The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary.

  Births

• 2 March – Hughie Ferguson, footballer
• 28 April – William Soutar, poet
• 18 July – John Stuart, actor
• 31 July – Doris Zinkeisen, theatrical designer and commercial artist
• 11 September – John Meikle, winner of the Victoria Cross
• Duncan Campbell, revivalist
• William Gillies, painter

  Deaths

• 21 July – William Alexander Hunter, academic lawyer and Liberal politician
• 16 October – John Ritchie Findlay, newspaper owner and philanthropist
• 7 November – Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Gaelic poet
• 10 December – William Black, novelist