1904 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Edward VII
• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Andrew Murray

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Charles Dickson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – David Dundas

  Judiciary

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

  Events

• 28 June – the Danish liner is wrecked off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.
• 1 August – a judgement on appeal to the House of Lords in the case of Bannatyne v Overtoun is delivered.
• 17 September – new St Columba Church of Scotland, Glasgow, opened.
• 31 December – Glasgow-registered cargo steamers Stromboli and Kathleen collide and sink at Garvel Point, Greenock.
• Hyskeir Lighthouse completed.
• The Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art is renamed as the Royal Scottish Museum.
• Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh, founded.
• First West Highland White Terrier breed club set up.

  Births

• 4 January – Erik Chisholm, composer
• 26 April – Jimmy McGrory, international footballer and manager
• 28 May – Anne Gillespie Shaw, engineer and businesswoman
• 25 June – Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, historian and biographer
• 14 August – Lindley Fraser, academic economist and broadcaster
• 23 August – William Primrose, violist
• 20 October – Tommy Douglas, Premier of Saskatchewan and pioneer of medicare
• 3 November – Jennie Lee, politician
• 20 November – John MacCormick, lawyer and advocate of Home Rule for Scotland
• Edward Baird, painter
• Alex Moffat, miner, trade unionist and communist activist

  Deaths

• 16 April – Samuel Smiles, author and reformer
• 25 May – David Sime Cargill, industrialist
• 7 October – Isabella Bird, traveller
• 12 November – George Lennox Watson, naval architect
• 25 December – James Brown, poet and essayist, known as J. B. Selkirk

  The arts

• 29 February – the Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, opens as a music hall.
• 12 September – the King's Theatre, Glasgow, opens.
• 27 December – J. M. Barrie's stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.
• Hill House, Helensburgh, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is completed.