1893 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

  Events

• 20 April – gaff rigged racing cutter yacht HMY Britannia, designed by George Lennox Watson for Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, is launched at D. and W. Henderson and Company's yard at Partick on the River Clyde.
• 29 April – gaff rigged racing cutter yacht Valkyrie II, designed by George Lennox Watson for Lord Dunraven to challenge the America's Cup, is launched at D. and W. Henderson and Company's yard at Partick on the River Clyde.
• 6 July – replacement Bonar Bridge opened.
• 12 July – Dundee football club formed.
• 10 August –
• * Elgin City F.C. formed.
• * Ardlamont murder in Argyll.
• 7 September – first Aberdeen Synagogue consecrated.
• Drambuie is registered as a trademark for a whisky-based liqueur by James Ross of Broadford, Skye.
• Scottish scientist Alan MacMasters invents the first electric bread toaster.

  Births

• 11 February – Nan Shepherd, novelist and poet
• 1 March – Andrew Bryan, mining engineer
• 10 April – James Hutchison, shipbuilder, army officer and politician
• 24 April – Alan Morton, international footballer
• 30 June – Herbert James Gunn, painter

  Deaths

• 13 February – George Lichtenstein, pianist and music teacher
• 15 February – Henry MacDonald, soldier, Victoria Cross recipient
• 21 February – John Pettie, painter
• 29 March – John Bartholomew, cartographer
• 22 June – Sir William Mackinnon, 1st Baronet, shipowner
• 10 October – Charles Altamont Doyle, artist
• 11 December – William Milligan, theologian

  The arts

• 4 September – Beatrix Potter, staying with her family at a house near Dunkeld leased from a Mr McGregor, writes the letter that will become The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
• S. R. Crockett publishes his story "The Stickit Minister".
• William Sharp publishes Pharais, his first novel under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod.