1899 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Victoria
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Lord Balfour of Burleigh

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Andrew Murray
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Charles Dickson

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson to 21 November; then Lord Blair Balfour
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh

  Events

• March – supposed last duel in Scotland, fought with swords in the University of Glasgow over the appointment of a Rector, perhaps a student hoax.
• 13 March – Japanese battleship Asahi launched by John Brown & Company, Clydebank.
• 16 June – Penicuik House gutted by fire.
• July – Norman Heathcote climbs the St Kilda sea stack Stac Lee with his sister Evelyn.
• November – English occultist Aleister Crowley purchases Boleskine House near Foyers on the shore of Loch Ness from the Fraser family, occupying it until 1913.
• 7 December – Flannan Isles Lighthouse first lit.
• 15 December – Glasgow School of Art opens its new building, the most notable work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
• 30 December – the Albion Motor Car Company is set up in Glasgow; and the first Argyll car is also produced this year.
• George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, presents Iona Abbey and other sacred sites of the island of Iona to the Iona Cathedral Trust.
• First Skerries Bridge, linking Bruray to Housay in the Out Skerries, is built.

  Births

• 24 June – Bruce Marshall, writer
• 21 July – David Broadfoot, seaman awarded the George Cross for his role during the sinking of
• 8 October – Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan, civil engineer

  Deaths

• 6 June – Robert Wallace, classics teacher, minister, university professor, newspaper editor, barrister and Member of Parliament
• 14 September – William Watson, Baron Watson, former Lord Advocate