Hamish Scott (historian)
Hamish Marshall Scott was a Scottish historian and academic. He was Professor of International History then Wardlaw Professor of International History at the University of St Andrews. Having studied at the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics, he began his career lecturing at the University of Birmingham.
Life and career
Scott was born on 12 July 1946, and received a scholarship to study at George Heriot's School, a private school in Edinburgh, Scotland. From there he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, before transferring to the London School of Economics for his PhD.Scott began his teaching career at the University of Birmingham in 1970 before joining the University of St Andrews in 1979, where he remained until his retirement in 2009. From 2017 until his death in 2022, Scott was a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.
In 2005, he married Julia Smith.
In May 2016, Scott was one of 300 prominent historians, including Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson, who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian, telling voters that if they chose to leave the European Union on 23 June, they would be condemning Britain to irrelevance.