1910 in Scotland
Events from the year 1910 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- June – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
- 6–13 August – First Scottish International Aviation Meeting held at Lanark.
- 17 September – Andrew Blain Baird makes the first powered monoplane flight in Scotland, at Ettrick Bay on the Isle of Bute in a self-built machine.
- 19 December – Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow opened
- The whisky-based liqueur Drambuie is first marketed commercially, from Leith.
Births
- 6 May – Jerry Morris, epidemiologist
- 10 March – Jane Duncan, born Elizabeth Jane Cameron, novelist
- 17 March – Molly Weir, actress
- 19 April – Andrew Gilchrist, Special Operations Executive operative, and later ambassador
- 23 April – Sheila Scott Macintyre, mathematician
- 15 July – George Friel, novelist
- 1 September – Charles Maxwell, radio producer
- 14 November – Norman MacCaig, poet
- December – Ian Donald, physician, pioneer in the use of Medical ultrasonography
Deaths
- 18 January – James Cuthbertson, Scottish-Australian poet and schoolteacher
- 2 April – William McTaggart, landscape and marine painter
- 6 April – John McLaren, Lord McLaren, Liberal politician
- 13 April – William Quiller Orchardson, portraitist and painter
- 15 April – John Smith, dentist, philanthropist and pioneering educator
- 10 May – William Gordon Stables, naval physician and novelist
- 23 June – Robert Boog Watson, malacologist and Free [Church of Scotland (1843–1900)|Free Church] minister