1932 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt until 28 September; then Sir Godfrey Collins

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Craigie Mason Aitchison
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Wilfrid Normand

  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

• 26 May – the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.
• 26 September – first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.
• 16 November – a colliery explosion at Cardowan kills 11 miners.
• Wendy Wood leads a group of nationalists into Stirling Castle, at this time an Army barracks as well as a heritage attraction, to tear down the Union flag and replace it with a Scottish standard.
• Finnieston Crane begins operation.
• Etive Bridge, Stirling, built.
• A flock of Soay sheep is translocated from Soay to Hirta by conservationist John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute.
• Edinburgh Synagogue was opened

  Births

• 4 January – Dick Douglas, Labour, then SNP, Member of Parliament
• 19 January – George MacBeth, poet and novelist
• 20 February – Tom Patey, mountaineer
• 24 February – Ian McNeill, footballer
• 12 March - Rory McEwen, artist and musician
• 21 March - Thomas Welsh Watson, stage, television and film actor
• 4 May – Sandy MacAra, epidemiologist
• 8 May – Phyllida Law, actress
• 15 May – Joseph Beltrami, defence lawyer
• 2 June - Tom Nairn, political theorist and academic
• 2 June – Jim Petrie, comic artist
• 5 June - Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, classical scholar
• 8 June – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, lawyer and judge
• 1 July – Donny MacLeod, television presenter
• 9 July – Jimmy Reid, trade unionist
• 20 July - Iain MacKintosh, singer and songwriter
• 9 August – Tam Dalyell, Labour Member of Parliament
• 13 August – John Bannerman, historian of Gaelic Scotland
• 3 October – Tommy Preston, footballer
• 11 October - Billie Anthony, female singer
• 28 October – Ewen Fergusson, Scotland international rugby union player and diplomat
• 25 November - Maureen Swanson, actress, Countess of Dudley
• James Morrison, artist

  Deaths

• 25 January – James Paterson, painter
• 11 February – Robert Gibb, painter
• 31 March – Thomas David Anderson, amateur astronomer
• 8 July – John Wilson, Lord Ashmore, Sheriff 1900-20, Senator of the College of Justice 1930-28
• 16 September – James Whitelaw Hamilton, landscape painter
• William Gillies, nationalist

  The arts

• Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, first of his A Scots Quair trilogy, is published.
• Fionn MacColla's novel The Albannach is published.