1917 in Scotland

{{further|Politics of Scotland|Order of precedence in Scotland}}

• Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Robert Munro{{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=James |title=The Scottish Question |date=12 June 2014 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-100236-6 |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWegAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64 |language=en}}

• Lord Advocate – James Avon Clyde
• Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Brash Morison

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Strathclyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Dickson
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Kennedy

• 3 January – Ratho rail crash in which North British Railway H class locomotive 874 Dunedin in charge of the Edinburgh to Glasgow express train is in collision with a light engine at Queensferry Junction, leaving 12 people dead and 46 seriously injured. The cause is found to be inadequate signalling procedures.{{cite web|title=UK train accidents in which passengers were killed 1825-1924|url=http://www.purecollector.com/history/wilson_railway_accidents.html|first=Duncan|last=MacLeod|date=2006-08-14|work=PureCollector|access-date=2017-12-06}}
• 5 January – Stornoway Gazette first published.
• 29 January – Royal Navy steam-powered submarine {{HMS|K13}} sinks on trial in the Gare Loch with the loss of 32 men; 48 are rescued.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm|work=The Flag in the Wind|publisher=The Scots Independent|access-date=2014-07-15|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm|archive-date=2014-05-23}}
• 7 February – the Clyde-built Atlantic liner {{SS|California|1907}}, homeward bound for Glasgow from New York, is torpedoed and sunk by SM U-85 approaching Ireland. 41 are killed but around 162 survivors return to Glasgow.
• 9 April–16 May – Battle of Arras on the Western Front (World War I) – 44 Scottish battalions advance alongside seven Canadian Scottish battalions.
• 1 May – Imperial German Navy Zeppelins L 43 and L 45 conduct reconnaissance patrols over the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, above the Firth of Forth and Aberdeen, respectively.{{cite book|last=Whitehouse|first=Arch|title=The Zeppelin Fighters|location=New York|publisher=Ace Books|year=1966|pages=183–184}}
• 26 June – First branch of the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes founded in Longniddry.{{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Susan |title=THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE |date=2011 |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-74781-046-9 |page=9}}
• 9 July – HMS Vanguard is blown apart by an internal explosion at her moorings in Scapa Flow, Orkney, killing an estimated 843 crew with no survivors.{{cite news|url=http://www.orcadian.co.uk/features/articles/vanguard.htm|journal=The Orcadian|first=Brian|last=Flett|title=Research puts Vanguard loss at 843|date=2002-07-11|access-date=2013-05-19|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027092800/http://www.orcadian.co.uk/features/articles/vanguard.htm|archive-date=2010-10-27}}

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• 2 August – Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning becomes the first pilot to land his aircraft on a ship[http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3919 HMS Furious 1917.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628134612/http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3919 |date=28 June 2006 }} when he lands his Sopwith Pup on {{HMS|Furious|47|6}} in Scapa Flow but is killed five days later during another landing on the ship.
• 23 August – start of lockout at Pullars dyeing works in Perth.{{cite web|title=Pullars of Perth|url=http://www.perthshirediary.com/html/day0919.html|work=Perthshire Diary|date=1917-09-19|access-date=2014-03-21}}
• October – first North British Railway C Class steam locomotives are allocated for loan to the Royal Engineers' Railway Operating Division on the Western Front.
• 3 December – Strathmore meteorite falls in Perthshire.{{cite web|title=The Strathmore Meteorite|url=http://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/6498/The-Strathmore-Meteorite|publisher=Perth & Kinross Council|date=2013-08-05|access-date=2014-08-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924073952/http://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/6498/The-Strathmore-Meteorite|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• The Great Channel in the Inner Moray Firth is dredged.

• 27 February – George Mitchell, musician, best known for devising The Black and White Minstrel Show (died 2002 in England)
• 15 May – Anna Macleod, biochemist, world's first female professor of brewing and biochemistry (died 2004)
• 18 May – James Donald, actor (died 1993 in England)
• 10 June – Ruari McLean, typographic designer (died 2006)
• 14 August – Donald MacLeod, Seaforth Highlanders pipe major, composer and bagpipe instructor (died 1982)
• 26 September – Phillip Clancey, leading authority on the ornithology of South Africa (died 2001 in South Africa)
• 16 October – Murray MacLehose, Governor of Hong Kong (died 2000)
• 14 December – Alberto Morrocco, artist and teacher (died 1998)
• 31 December – John Fox Watson, footballer (Fulham, Real Madrid, Crystal Palace) (died 1976 in Southend-on-Sea)

• 17 March – Hippolyte Blanc, architect, best known for his church buildings in the Gothic revival style (born 1844)
• 13 May – Benjamin Blyth II, civil engineer (born 1849)
• 22 October – William Hole, English artist, illustrator, etcher and engraver, known for his industrial, historical and biblical scenes (born 1846 in Salisbury)
• 1 December – George Henry Tatham Paton, army captain, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, mortally wounded in action in France (born 1895)
• 27 December – George Diamandy, Romanian revolutionary socialist politician, social scientist, dramatist, journalist, diplomat, archaeologist and landowner, died and buried at sea off Shetland (born 1867 in Romania)

• 17 August – one of English literature's most important and famous meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.
• November – Glasgow watercolourist Frederick Farrell (who was discharged from army service as a sapper a year earlier on health grounds) serves as a war artist on the Western Front; uniquely sponsored by the city of his birth, the only British city to sponsor a painter.{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/visual/glasgows-forgotten-war-artist-fred-farrell.1400900405|title=Glasgow's forgotten war artist Fred Farrell|date=24 May 2014|work=The Herald|location=Glasgow|access-date=2023-08-30}}
• Joseph Lee (who is made a prisoner of war later this year) publishes the poetry collection Work-a-Day Warriors.
• Ewart Alan Mackintosh (who is killed on 23 November in the Battle of Cambrai) publishes A Highland Regiment and Other Poems.
• Doric dialect poet and soldier Charles Murray publishes The Sough o' War.

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