1912 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland until 13 February; then Thomas McKinnon Wood

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Alexander Ure
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Anderson

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, established on 1 April – Lord Kennedy

  Events

• 15 January – Rua Reidh Lighthouse first lit on Rubh'Re Point near the entrance to Loch Ewe.
• May – Unionist Party emerges in Scotland following merger of the Liberal Unionist Party into the Conservative And Unionist Party in England.
• August – Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 10th Baronet, takes possession of the family seat of Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull.
• 10 September – Midlothian by-election. The Unionist Party gain the seat from the Liberal Party.
• 24 October – Formation of the Edinburgh and Leith Branch of the Workers' Educational Association at a meeting addressed by Albert Mansbridge.
• 26 November – A severe south-westerly gale hits Scotland: ten people are killed and Troon is heavily flooded.
• The island of Raasay is acquired by Baird & Co. who open an iron ore mine there.

  Births

• 1 January – Margot Bennett, novelist
• 10 February – Ena Lamont Stewart, playwright
• 17 March – Alex Hastings, international footballer
• 10 April – Archie McKellar, squadron leader, flying ace of the Royal Air Force during World War II
• 16 April – David Langton, born Basil Muir Langton-Dodds, actor
• 18 April – Sir Sandy Glen, explorer of the Arctic and wartime intelligence officer
• 10 May – Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, mother of President of the United States Donald Trump
• 3 June – William Douglas-Home, playwright
• 15 August – Sir Monty Finniston, industrialist
• 2 September – David Daiches, literary historian and literary critic
• 11 September – Robin Jenkins, novelist
• 12 September – J. F. Hendry, poet
• 21 September – Sir Ian MacGregor, industrialist
• 29 November – Muriel Gibson, Scottish nationalist activist and military officer
• Jane Lee silent child actor

  Deaths

• 18 February – George Henderson, scholar of Scottish Gaelic
• 29 March – Henry Robertson Bowers, polar explorer
• 15 April – Wreck of the RMS Titanic
• * John Law Hume, violinist on
• * William McMaster Murdoch, First Officer on RMS Titanic
• 6 June – Alexander Carmichael exciseman, folklorist, antiquarian and author
• 20 July – Andrew Lang, poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology
• 8 November – Dugald Drummond, steam locomotive engineer
• 25 November – Sir Edward Moss, theatrical impresario
• 18 December – Alexander Taylor Innes, lawyer, writer, biographer and church historian

  The arts

• The Hippodrome Cinema, Bo'ness, opens its doors. It will be the first purpose-built cinema in Scotland to celebrate its centenary as a film venue.
• Bandmaster Frederick J. Ricketts of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders publishes "Holyrood", the first march under the pseudonym Kenneth J. Alford.