1895 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, to 29 June; then Lord Balfour of Burleigh

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour until July; then Sir Charles Pearson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Shaw; then Andrew Murray

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 11 February – the lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2 °C is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.
• 11 April – electric light is introduced in Edinburgh.
• 13 April – first cremation in Scotland's first crematorium, at Glasgow's Western Necropolis.
• July–August – second "Race to the North": Operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Aberdeen.
• 28 October
• * The Daily Record newspaper is first published.
• * Probable date of the first car shipped into Scotland, a Panhard for Glasgow engineer George Johnston.
• Percy Pilcher flies in several versions of his hang glider Bat at Cardross, Argyll, the first person to make repeated heavier-than-air flights in the UK.
• Sule Skerry lighthouse completed.
• New Dunoon Pier built.
• New offices for The Glasgow Herald, designed by John Keppie and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
• New premises for Jenners department store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, completed.
• The North British Aluminium Company builds Britain's first aluminium smelting plant on the shore of Loch Ness at Foyers.
• Babcock & Wilcox Ltd establish a manufacturing facility at Renfrew based on the existing Porterfield Foundry.
• Paterson's begin baking oatcakes in Rutherglen.

  Births

• 9 March – Isobel Baillie, soprano
• 29 March – Anne Redpath, still life painter
• 19 May – Charles Sorley, poet
• 17 June – George MacLeod, soldier and minister of religion
• 25 August – R. D. Low, comics writer and editor
• 3 October – George Henry Tatham Paton, recipient of the Victoria Cross

  Deaths

• 18 June – Lord Colin Campbell, Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885 and probable adulterer
• 22 August – Peter Denny, shipbuilder and owner
• George Thompson, shipowner and politician