1924 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – The Viscount Novar until 22 January; then William Adamson until 3 November; then Sir John Gilmour, Bt

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson until February; then Hugh Pattison Macmillan until November; then William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Frederick Thomson; then John Charles Fenton until November; then David Fleming

  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

• 22 January – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a minority government.
• 28–30 January – Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics: The gold medal is won by a Scottish team representing Great Britain in Chamonix.
• April – The Scots Magazine resumes publication in Glasgow under this title.
• 3 June – Gleneagles Hotel, in Perthshire, is opened by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
• 11 July – Eric Liddell wins 400m gold at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris in a new world-record time of 47.6 seconds.
• 28 July – At Edinburgh Haymarket railway station, a passenger train ignores a stop signal and is in collision with a second train; five people are killed.
• The Scottish county of Linlithgowshire is officially renamed West Lothian.
• Duncansby Head lighthouse, engineered by David Alan Stevenson, is established.
• The London and North Eastern Railway officially names its Flying Scotsman express train, although the 10.00 a.m. service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley over the East Coast Main Line has previously been known by this title, and has operated since 1862.
• Annandale distillery closed.

  Births

• 29 January – Bobby Combe, international footballer
• 7 March – Eduardo Paolozzi, artist
• 11 March – Anne Macaulay, musicologist, author and lecturer
• 20 March – James Barr, biblical scholar
• 28 March – Robert James, actor
• 3 April – Murray Dickie, tenor opera singer and director
• 13 April – Sammy Cox, international footballer
• 14 April – Robert Stewart, textile designer
• 15 April – Rikki Fulton, comedian
• 18 April – Buxton Orr, composer
• 20 May – Stan Paterson, glaciologist
• 25 May – Gordon Smith, football player, the only player to win a Scottish league championship with three clubs, Hibernian, Heart of Midlothian and Dundee
• 1 June – Rev. Professor Alexander Campbell Cheyne, scholar of Church history
• 9 June – Peter Heatly, diver
• 14 June
• * James Black, pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• * John Grieve, actor
• 17 June – Archibald Hall, serial killer and thief
• 19 July – Sir James Fraser, surgeon
• 15 September – Piers Mackesy, military historian
• 6 October – Margaret Fulton, cookery writer in Australia

  Deaths

• 3 February – Major General William Burney Bannerman, military surgeon
• 6 February – Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Fingask, whisky distiller
• 17 April – James Brown Craven, ecclesiastical historian
• 27 April – James Salmon, architect
• 22 June – William Macewen, pioneer in brain surgery
• 26 July – William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, ornithologist
• 4 September – Constance Gordon-Cumming travel writer and painter
• 17 October – Hector C. Macpherson, writer and journalist
• 31 December – James Gardiner, Liberal MP
• John Henderson, painter

  The arts

• April – French-born critic Denis Saurat publishes "Le groupe de la Renaissance Écossaise" in Revue Anglo-Américaine bringing writers of the modern Scottish Renaissance to wider European notice.