1958 in Scotland

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• Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – John Maclay

• Lord Advocate – William Rankine Milligan
• Solicitor General for Scotland – William Grant

• Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Thomson
• Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Gibson

• 13 March – Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election results in a Labour gain from the Unionists
• May – nuclear development: Dounreay materials test reactor achieves criticality
• 3 May – Aberdeen Corporation Tramways cease to operate, leaving Glasgow as the only tram network in Scotland. The latter would close four years later in 1962.
• 20 May – railway collision at Arklestone Junction, Paisley; 97 injured{{cite book|first=Adrian|last=Vaughan|title=Obstruction Danger: significant British railway accidents, 1890-1986|location=Wellingborough|publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd|year=1989|pages=159–64}}
• 7 June – Ian Donald publishes an article in The Lancet describing the diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics as pioneered in Glasgow{{cite web|url=http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/lancet.html|title=Ian Donald's paper in The Lancet in 1958|access-date=2008-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112010620/http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/lancet.html|archive-date=2008-01-12|url-status=live}}
• 4 July – St Ninian's Isle Treasure discovered in Shetland by schoolboy Douglas Coutts.
• 11 July – Peter Manuel hanged at HM Prison Barlinnie for at least seven murders.
• 18 August – Regional postage stamps of Great Britain are first issued.
• 1 September – First of the 'Cod Wars' between the UK and Iceland over fishing rights breaks out.
• 15 September – British Railways railbuses introduced on Gleneagles–Crieff–Comrie line{{cite web|url=http://www.railcar.co.uk/type/ac-cars-railbus/scottish-arrival|title=AC Cars Railbus Scottish Arrival|last=Mackay|first=Stuart|website=www.railcar.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-05-20}}
• 19 September – John Duncan Mackie is appointed Historiographer Royal
• October – Thurso High School opened
• 21 November – Construction of the Forth Road Bridge begins. It would open on 4 September 1964, following a ceremony by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.{{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=2014-07-23|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm|archive-date=2014-05-23}}
• 5 December – Subscriber trunk dialling (STD) is inaugurated on the UK telephone network when The Queen makes a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost{{cite web|url=http://www.btplc.com/thegroup/BTsHistory/1912to1968/1958.htm|title=Events in Telecommunications History – 1958|publisher=BT Archives|access-date=2014-07-23|archive-date=7 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007024036/http://www.btplc.com/Thegroup/BTsHistory/1912to1968/1958.htm|url-status=dead}}
• 25 December – Christmas Day is a public holiday in Scotland for the first time{{cite book|last1=Houston|first1=Rab|last2=Houston|first2=Robert Allan|title=Scotland: a very short introduction|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|series=Very short introductions|volume=197|page=172|isbn=978-0-19-923079-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PP8ahdq40P4C&q=Christmas+public+holiday+1958+scotland&pg=PT169|access-date=2012-02-29}}
• Neolithic Tomb of the Eagles on South Ronaldsay in Orkney first explored by Ronald Simison.

• 30 January – Derek White, rugby player{{cite web |title=Derek Bolton White |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scotland/rugby/player/9405.html |website=ESPN scrum |access-date=18 January 2022 |archive-date=18 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118221836/http://en.espn.co.uk/scotland/rugby/player/9405.html |url-status=dead }}
• 9 February – Sandy Lyle, golfer
• 22 February – Gordon Kennedy, actor
• 27 March – Peter Howson, figurative painter, war artist
• 14 April – Peter Capaldi, screen actor
• 25 April – Fish (Derek William Dick), neo-progressive rock singer
• 26 April – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (John Bute or Johnny Dumfries), racing driver (died 2021)
• 3 June – Cameron Sharp, sprinter
• 17 May – Alan Rankine, musician and producer
• 2 August – Elaine C. Smith, comic actress
• 17 August – Fred Goodwin, banker
• 30 August – Muriel Gray, broadcaster
• 20 September – Maureen Baker, physician
• 27 September – Irvine Welsh, novelist, playwright and short story writer
• Christina McAnea, trade union leader
• Harry Ritchie, writer and journalist
• James Robertson, novelist
• Adrian Wiszniewski, figurative painter

• 8 January – Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP (born 1888)
• 29 March – Sir William Burrell, shipowner and art collector (born 1861)
• 2 April – Mary Barbour, political activist, local councillor and magistrate (born 1875)
• 3 September – Norman Kemp Smith, philosopher (born 1872)
• 19 September – Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet, soldier (born 1883 in British India)

• 7 May – first broadcast of the BBC television variety show The White Heather Club which airs nationally until 1968

• 1958 in Northern Ireland

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