James Robinson Scott

James Robinson Scott RN FRSE FLS PRMS (d.1821) was an 18th/19th century Scottish naval surgeon and noted amateur botanist. He served as Senior President of the Royal Medical Society 1818/19.

Life

He was born in Edinburgh around 1763.

He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University and later lectured in Botany there.[1] He became a full Surgeon in the Royal Navy, serving throughout the Napoleonic Wars.

He reappears in Edinburgh in 1818 living at 18 St Patrick Square.[2]

In 1819 he joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh alongside his colleague Dr Walter Oudney and luminaries such as Dr Henry Dewar, Robert Kaye Greville and Prof George Dunbar.[3]

In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Prof George Dunbar, Robert Jameson and Patrick Neill.[4] He lived his final years at 24 Clerk Street[5] in Edinburgh's South Side, but died in London on 29/30 August 1821.[6]

Family

His wife Margaret died in Hertford in 1857, aged 87.[7]

Publications

  • Observations on the Character and Writings of the Late William Royston FLS (1817)
  • Herbarium Edinense: Dried Specimens of Plants Growing Chiefly in the Edinburgh Area (1819) co-written with Dr William Jameson[8]

References


  1. ↑ A Sailor in the Sahara, J. B. Lockhart
  2. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1818
  3. ↑ Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, vol 3, p.539
  4. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  5. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820
  6. ↑ The Edinburgh Annual Register 1821
  7. ↑ British Medical Journal 1857
  8. ↑ Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal vol 15
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