1902 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Edward VII
• 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 Blair Balfour
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

  Events

• 5 April – the first Ibrox disaster: a stand at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow collapses during an England versus Scotland football match. 25 people die and 517 are injured.
• 15 October – the North British Hotel in Edinburgh opens its doors.
• 2 November – the first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia.
• 10 November – Percival Spencer and the Rev. J. M. Bacon make the first-ever hot air balloon flight from the Isle of Man, landing in Dumfriesshire.
• Pulteneytown merged into the burgh of Wick.

  Births

• 16 January – Eric Liddell, athlete, international rugby union player and missionary
• 26 March – Marion Cameron Gray, mathematician
• 27 March – Kenneth Macpherson, cinematographer
• 24 July – Renée Houston, née Katherina Houston Gribbin, comedy actress
• 19 August – Fyfe Robertson, television presenter

  Deaths

• 20 February – David MacGibbon, architect
• 29 June – John Stuart McCaig of Muckairn and Soroba, creator of McCaig's Tower, Oban
• 16 July – Henry Dunning Macleod, economist
• 28 August – George Douglas Brown, novelist
• 29 September – William McGonagall, weaver, doggerel poet and tragedian

  The arts

• First modern play in Scottish Gaelic staged, in Edinburgh.
• The Classical Association of Scotland founded