Events from the year 1894 in Scotland.
Incumbents
Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt
Law officers
Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour
Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Asher; then Thomas Shaw
Judiciary
Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Robertson
Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
5 July – racing cutter Valkyrie II (1893) collides with Satanita on the Firth of Clyde and sinks, with one fatality. 11 July – rebuilt St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, dedicated. July – Marion Gilchrist becomes the first woman to graduate from the University of Glasgow and the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university. 7 August – the West Highland Railway, operated by the North British Railway, is publicly opened to Fort William. 25 August – Local Government (Scotland) Act 1894 receives the Royal Assent. Parochial boards replaced by elected parish councils. December – Longmorn distillery begins production. Lady Victoria Colliery comes into production at Newtongrange, Midlothian. McVitie's biscuit factory in Edinburgh is burned down but rebuilt. Elsie Inglis sets up a medical practice in Edinburgh. Craigholme School founded by Mrs Jessie Murdoch as Pollokshields Ladies' School. Alyth golf course laid out by Old Tom Morris. Marion Adams-Acton publishes Adventures of a perambulator: true details of a family history.
Births
26 March – Alexander Thom, aerodynamicist and archaeoastronomer (died 1985) 13 May – Joe Corrie, miner, poet and playwright (died 1968) 28 June – Allardyce Nicoll, literary scholar (died 1976 in England) 29 June – David Steele, international footballer and manager (died 1964) 14 October – Victoria Drummond, marine engineer (died 1978 in England) Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer (died 1972) R. M. Smyllie, journalist (died 1954 in Ireland)
Deaths
3 September – John Veitch, poet, philosopher and historian (born 1829) 3 December – Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer (born 1850; dies on Samoa)
The arts
Ian Maclaren's stories Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush are published. Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863 in the United States) dies; Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir is published posthumously edited by Andrew Lang.