1925 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir John Gilmour, Bt

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – William Watson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – David Fleming until December; then Alexander Munro MacRobert

  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

• 18 April – the dam of Skelmorlie reservoir bursts, flooding the village and killing 5.
• 21 March – Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, home of the Scottish Rugby Union, opens with Scotland defeating England 14-11.
• 16 May – the war memorial on the Law, Dundee, is inaugurated.
• 7 July – the original Kelvin Hall in Glasgow is destroyed by fire.
• 7 August – National Library of Scotland established by Act of Parliament to take over the national responsibilities of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh.
• 2 October – John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image, in London.
• 29 December – Alexander Munro MacRobert appointed Solicitor General for Scotland, replacing David Fleming
• The uninhabited Shiant Isles are acquired by writer and island-lover Compton Mackenzie.

  Births

• 28 January – Michael Scott Weir, diplomat, Arabist
• 1 February – Bobby Laing, professional footballer
• 18 February – Russell Hunter, actor
• 1 April – Walter Carr, actor
• 2 April – George MacDonald Fraser, author, notable for The Flashman Papers
• 5 April – John Boyd, milliner, based in London
• 6 May – Angus Black, international rugby union player
• 29 May – Mick McGahey, Communist miners' leader
• 3 June – Thomas Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow and Cardinal
• 19 June – Robert Fyfe, actor
• 25 July – Duncan Johnstone, bagpiper and composer
• 30 July – Alexander Trocchi, novelist
• 4 September – John McKenzie, footballer
• 28 October – Ian Hamilton Finlay, poet and sculptor
• 26 November – Phil McCall, actor
• 30 December – Ian MacNaughton, actor and television director/producer
• John Quigley, author

  Deaths

• 11 January – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, Liberal Party MP, soldier, peer and administrator
• 14 January - David MacRitchie, folklorist and antiquarian
• 25 April – John Quinton Pringle, painter
• July - James Seth, philosopher
• Henry J. Watt, experimental psychologist

  The arts

• John Buchan's novel John Macnab is published.
• Hugh MacDiarmid's synthetic Scots poetry Sangshaw is published.