1968 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Monarch – Elizabeth II
• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Willie Ross

  Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Henry Wilson
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Ewan Stewart

  Judiciary

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay

  Events

• 15 January – 1968 Scotland storm leaves 20 dead across central Scotland including 9 in Glasgow.
• February – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders formed with 48.4% government holding by amalgamation of Fairfields, Govan; Alexander Stephen & Sons, Linthouse; John Brown & Company, Clydebank; Charles Connell and Company, Scotstoun; and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
• 1 April – Reporting Scotland, BBC Scotland's national television news programme, is broadcast for the first time.
• 14 May – murder of Maxwell Garvie: Mariticide in Kincardineshire.
• 18 May – Declaration of Perth: UK Conservative party leader, Edward Heath proposes a directly elected Scottish Assembly.
• 22 May – the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland permits the ordination of women as ministers.
• 4 June – General Post Office introduces the first postbus in Scotland, Dunbar–Innerwick–Spott, East Lothian.
• 18 November – James Watt Street fire: A warehouse fire in Glasgow kills 22.
• Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, 298 ft blocks of flats, completed in Glasgow.

  Births

• 31 January – John Collins, international footballer
• 26 April – Daniela Nardini, actress
• 4 July – Ronni Ancona, comic actress
• 5 August – Colin McRae, rally driver
• 6 September – Christopher Brookmyre, detective novelist
• 22 November – Sarah Smith, television and radio news reporter
• 23 November – Kirsty Young, television and radio presenter
• 28 December – Pauline Robertson, field hockey player
• Andrew O'Hagan, writer
• Frank Quitely, comic book artist

  Deaths

• 17 February – Alexander Gray, economist, poet and translator
• 7 April – Jim Clark, racing car driver
• 12 September – Tommy Armour, golfer
• 13 November – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright