Incumbents
Further information: Politics of Scotland and Order of precedence in Scotland
- Monarch – Edward VII
- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Sinclair
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – Thomas Shaw
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Alexander Ure
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Dunedin
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Kingsburgh
Events
- 27 January – Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland is launched at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's yard at Govan.
- 23 May – Boyd's Automatic tide signalling apparatus is inaugurated at Irvine, North Ayrshire.
- 7 June – Cunard liner RMS Lusitania is launched at John Brown & Company's shipyard at Clydebank as the world's largest ship.
- 26 June – new Argyll Motor Works is opened for production of the Argyll car at Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire.
- 19 July – 1906 Dundee fire: a major fire breaks out in a bonded warehouse.
- 18 August – Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway opened to passengers.
- 28 December – Elliot Junction rail accident between Arbroath and Carnoustie railway stations kills 22.[1]
- Yarrow Shipbuilders begin their move from London to Scotstoun.
Births
- 4 March – Fionn MacColla, novelist connected to the Scottish Renaissance (died 1975)
- 13 March – Alex Massie, international footballer (died 1977)
- 22 June – Gilbert Highet, Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian (died 1978 in the United States)
- 1 July – Ritchie Calder, socialist author, journalist and academic (died 1982)
- 18 July – Belle Stewart, née McGregor, traditional singer (died 1997)
- 29 July – Ian Gordon Lindsay, architect (died 1966)
- 30 September – J. I. M. Stewart, novelist and academic critic (died 1994)
- 12 December – Robert Matthew, modernist architect (died 1975)
- Molly Urquhart, actress (died 1977)
Deaths
- 15 May – James Blyth, electrical engineer (born 1839)
- 30 November – William Stewart Ross, writer and publisher (born 1844)
The Arts
- May – Stan Laurel makes his stage debut, at the Britannia Panopticon in Glasgow.
- 3 December – His Majesty's Theatre opens in Aberdeen.[2]
- Hugh S. Roberton forms the Glasgow Orpheus Choir.
