1913 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Thomas McKinnon Wood

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Alexander Ure; then Robert Munro
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Anderson; then Thomas Brash Morison

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin until 14 October; then Lord Strathclyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Kennedy

  Events

• 26 February – the Royal Flying Corps establishes the first operational military airfield for fixed-wing aircraft in the United Kingdom at Montrose.
• 21 April – the Cunard ocean liner, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.
• 27 May – Lieutenant Desmond Arthur dies when his Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 biplane, 205, collapses without warning while flying over Montrose, Scotland's first fatal aircraft accident.
• 6 June – Stoneyetts Hospital is opened at East Muckcroft, originally for the treatment of people with epilepsy.
• 22 July – Edinburgh Zoo opens.
• 3 August – 22 men are killed by fire at Cadder colliery near Bishopbriggs.
• Dollar, Clackmannanshire, becomes the first Scottish town to appoint a Lady Provost, Lavinia Malcolm.
• Arrol-Johnston have a purpose-built car factory erected near Dumfries.
• Alexanders' Motor Services, predecessor of W. Alexander & Sons, begins running 'omnibus' services in the Falkirk area from a base in Camelon.
• Temperance Act 1913 permits local communities to hold polls on whether prohibition should apply in their districts.
• William Crawford bakes biscuits at Leith.
• The Neolithic site at Skara Brae on Mainland, Orkney, is plundered.
• Coal mining production in Scotland peaks at 43.2 million tonnes, employing over 140,000 men and women, who, with their families, make up 10% of the Scottish population.

  Births

• 17 February – Alastair Borthwick, broadcaster and mountaineer
• 6 March – Ella Logan, born Georgina Allan, musical theatre performer
• 18 March – W. H. Murray, mountaineer and writer
• 2 April – Ronald Center, composer,
• 2 April – Benny Lynch, flyweight boxer
• 11 April – Winifred Drinkwater, aviator and first woman to hold a commercial pilot's license
• 13 April – Gordon Donaldson, historian
• 10 May – Alan Gemmell, plant biologist
• 5 June – Sam Black, artist and teacher
• 5 June – Douglas Young, classicist, poet and Scottish National Party leader
• 25 July – John Cairncross, public servant, spy for the Soviet Union, academic and writer
• 29 July – William George Nicholson Geddes, civil engineer
• 29 July – Jo Grimond, Liberal party leader
• 11 August – Andy Beattie, professional football player and manager, first manager of the Scottish national football team
• 2 September – Bill Shankly, international footballer and manager
• 15 December – Robert McIntyre, Scottish National Party leader
• Robert MacBryde, still-life and figure painter, and theatre set designer

  Deaths

• 18 January – George Alexander Gibson, physician and geologist
• 20 February – Sir William Arrol, civil engineering contractor
• 12 May – William McEwan, Liberal Party MP and brewer
• 6 September – James Orr, Presbyterian minister, and professor of church history and of theology
• 23 September – James Campbell Noble, painter
• 21 November – James Howden, mechanical engineer
• Sir George Reid, artist