1908 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Edward VII
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 26 January – the 1st Glasgow Scout Group is granted the oldest Scout Group registration known.
• 25 April – Kincardineshire by-election: Arthur Murray holds the seat for the Liberal Party.
• 9 May – Dundee by-election: Winston Churchill holds the seat for the Liberal Party.
• May – Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club formed.
• 14 July – first ship launched from Yarrow Shipbuilders' new yard at Scotstoun, the first Pará-class destroyer for the Brazilian Navy.
• 11–12 August: Sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics: The 12-metre class is contested from Hunters Quay on the Firth of Clyde and won by Thomas C. Glen-Coats' Hera.
• St Mary's Episcopal Church in Glasgow is raised to the status of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, within the Scottish Episcopal Church.
• Walter Robberds, Bishop of Brechin, becomes Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, an office he will hold until 1934.
• Eskdalemuir Observatory opened for geophysical and meteorological recording.
• West Highland White Terrier first so named as a breed.
• Perth Racecourse, the most northerly in Britain, opened for National Hunt racing.

  Births

• 20 January – Ian Peebles, cricketer
• 28 January – Jimmy Shand, accordionist and bandleader
• 2 February – J. K. Annand, poet and founding editor of Lallans magazine
• 15 April – Denis Devlin, Irish modernist poet and diplomat
• 22 April – Leonard Schapiro, scholar of Russian politics
• 27 April – Mary Docherty, Communist activist
• 23 May – Duncan Black, economist
• 5 June – Bill Fraser, stage and screen actor
• 7 June – Thomas Cook, Labour Party Member of Parliament
• 10 June – Russell Waters, stage and screen actor
• 12 June – Ronnie Selby Wright, Church of Scotland minister
• 23 August – Hannah Frank, visual artist
• 19 October – Sydney MacEwan, singer and priest
• 28 October – Angus MacVicar, writer
• Jeannie Robertson, folk singer

  Deaths

• 25 January – Sir Thomas McCall Anderson, professor of practice of medicine
• 30 January – James Bell Pettigrew, naturalist and museum curator
• 22 March – John William Crombie, Liberal MP for Kincardineshire
• 24 March – Sir James David Marwick, lawyer, historian and town clerk
• 13 May – Louisa Stevenson, campaigner for women's rights
• 7 June – William Lithgow, shipbuilder
• 25 October – Lewis Campbell, classicist
• 19 December – Thomas Lomar Gray, engineer, noted for his pioneering work in seismology
• Joseph Henderson, artist
• John James Stevenson, architect

  The arts

• Mary and Jane Findlater's novel Crossriggs is published.