1919 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Robert Munro

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – James Avon Clyde
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Brash Morison

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Strathclyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Dickson
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord St Vigeans

  Events

• 1 January – HMY Iolaire is wrecked on rocks off Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis: 205 die, mostly servicemen returning home.
• 19 January – The Sunday Post first published under this title in Glasgow.
• 23 January – "Harbour Riot" in Glasgow: confrontation between white and black merchant seamen.
• 27 January – general strike call in Glasgow and Belfast.
• 31 January – Battle of George Square : The Army is called in to deal with protesters in Glasgow calling for a 40-hour working week.

• 21 March – Queen of the South F.C. formed in Dumfries by merger.
• 28 April – Fraserburgh life-boat Lady Rothes, on service to HM Drifter Eminent, suffers two crew swept overboard.
• 12 May – Traprain Treasure of Roman silver found by archaeologists in East Lothian.
• 21 June – scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow: Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the interned German fleet in Scapa Flow. Nine German sailors are killed.
• 2 July – the British airship R34 takes off from RAF East Fortune to make the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, to Mineola, New York.
• July – first known female graduate in engineering from a Scottish university, Elizabeth Georgeson at the University of Edinburgh.
• 25 December – opening of Cliftonhill stadium in Coatbridge, the home of Albion Rovers F.C. The opening match sees them lose 2–0 to St Mirren.
• English industrialist William Lever, Baron Leverhulme, buys an estate on the Isle of Harris.
• Lt.-Col. John MacRae-Gilstrap plans complete reconstruction of the ruined Eilean Donan castle.

  Births

• 15 January – John Junor, newspaper editor
• 21 January – Eric "Winkle" Brown, test pilot
• 21 April – James Quinn, Jesuit priest, theologian and hymnodist
• 9 April – Iain Moncreiffe, officer of arms
• 12 May – Peter Cochrane, soldier and publisher
• 18 May – Hugh Brown, Labour politician
• 21 May – Robert Henderson Blyth, landscape painter and artist
• 30 May – Eric Lomax, British Army officer and prisoner of war
• 10 July – George Mackie, Liberal politician
• 8 August – Willie Woodburn, international footballer
• 8 September – Alistair Urquhart, soldier, businessman and author
• 3 November – Ludovic Kennedy, journalist
• 6 November – Chic Murray, comedian
• 11 November – Hamish Henderson, folk song collector

  Deaths

• 6 May – William Grant Stevenson, sculptor and portrait painter
• 11 August – Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist
• 16 August – James Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde, shipowner
• 16 October – Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet, mountaineer known for his list of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet
• 14 November – John Aitken, meteorologist
• 10 December – John MacDougall Hay, Church of Scotland minister and novelist, of TB