1910 in Scotland

Incumbents

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

Law officers

• Lord Advocate – Alexander Ure
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Arthur Dewar; then William Hunter

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