1873 in Scotland
Events from the year 1873 in Scotland.Incumbents
- Monarch – Victoria
Law officers
- Lord Advocate – George Young
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
Judiciary
- Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
- Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff
Events
- March – Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company
- 3 March – the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union
- 13 March – the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association
- 15 November – statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh
- Edinburgh Evening News first published
- Lexicographer James Murray publishes Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland
- George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecessor of the Weir Group, to Glasgow
Births
- 8 April – James Drever, psychologist
- 13 April – James Salmon, architect
- 6 July – George Aitken Clark Hutchison, Scottish Unionist MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern
Deaths
- 24 February – Thomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist
- 8 March – Robert William Thomson, engineer, inventor of the bicycle tyre
- 1 May – David Livingstone, pioneer medical missionary
- 2 October – John Cunningham, architect
- 27 October – Janet Hamilton, poet
- Hugh Fraser, retailer
