1894 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; then Thomas Shaw

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 5 July – racing cutter Valkyrie II collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality.
• 11 July – rebuilt St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, dedicated.
• July – Marion Gilchrist becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university.
• 7 August – the West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William.
• 25 August – Local Government Act 1894 receives the Royal Assent. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils.
• Lady Victoria Colliery comes into production at Newtongrange, Midlothian.
• McVitie's biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt.
• Elsie Inglis sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh.
• Craigholme School founded by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as Pollokshields Ladies' School.
• Alyth golf course laid out by Old Tom Morris.
• Marion Adams-Acton publishes Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history

  Births

• 26 March – Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer
• 13 May – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright
• 28 June – Allardyce Nicoll, literary scholar
• 29 June – David Steele, international footballer and manager
• 14 October – Victoria Drummond, marine engineer
• Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer
• R. M. Smyllie, journalist

  Deaths

• 3 September – John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian
• 3 December – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer

  The arts

• Ian Maclaren's stories Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush are published.
• Robert Fuller Murray dies; Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir is published posthumously edited by Andrew Lang.