1923 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Viscount Novar

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – David Fleming; then Frederick Thomson

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 1 January – Grouping of virtually all British railway companies. The Caledonian, Highland and Glasgow and South Western Railways are merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway; and the North British and Great North of Scotland Railways into the London and North Eastern Railway.
• 6 March – First BBC radio broadcast from Glasgow.
• 19 March – First BBC radio outside broadcast in Scotland, from the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.
• 23 March – Cutty Sark whisky blended.
• 24 June – Edinburgh Corporation Tramways completes conversion from cable to electric traction.
• 12 August–8 November – Eallabus on Islay records 89 successive rain-days, a British record.
• 10 October
• * First BBC radio broadcast from Aberdeen.
• * Susan Newell undergoes judicial hanging at Duke Street Prison, Glasgow, the last woman to suffer capital punishment in Scotland.
• 2 December – First BBC radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious address from Aberdeen.
• 6 December – United Kingdom general election. Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, is elected as Unionist Party MP for Kinross and Western Perthshire.
• The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland calls for curbs on the immigration of Irish Catholics.
• Margaret Kidd becomes the first female member of the Scottish bar.
• First year of the Bullough Cup, a shinty competition

  Births

• 15 January
• * John Christopher Bartholomew, cartographer and geographer
• * Ivor Cutler, poet, songwriter and humorist
• 19 March – Bobby Brown, international football goalkeeper and manager
• 23 March – Roddy McMillan, actor and playwright
• 15 May – James Gilbert, television producer
• 18 May – Willie McRae, Scottish National Party politician and lawyer
• May – Pat Smythe, jazz pianist
• 25 August – Dorothy Dunnett, historical novelist
• 9 September – Mitchell Downie, footballer
• 18 October – James Gowan, architect known for his post-modernist designs
• 21 October – David Brand, Lord Brand, advocate, sheriff and Senator of the College of Justice
• 25 October – Bobby Thomson, professional baseball player
• 26 October – Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie, politician
• 14 December – Janet Brown, actress, comedienne and impressionist, famous for impersonations of Margaret Thatcher
• 19 December – Gordon Jackson, screen actor

  Deaths

• 27 March – James Dewar, chemist and physicist
• 4 May – William Robertson Nicoll, Free Church minister, journalist, editor and man of letters
• 4 June – Hume Nisbet, writer and artist
• 25 June – John Annan Bryce, businessman and Liberal politician
• 29 June – Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet, physician
• 17 July – William Paton Ker, scholar and essayist
• 26 September – Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart, Conservative politician
• 28 September – William York Macgregor, landscape painter
• 30 November – John Maclean, Marxist
• 26 December – James Stout Angus, Shetland writer
• William Robertson, industrialist

  The arts

• The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society is founded by Jean Milligan and Ysobel Stewart.
• John Buchan's novel Midwinter is published.