James Robinson Scott
James Robinson Scott FRSE FLS PRMS was an 18th/19th century Scottish naval surgeon and 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 the University of Edinburgh and later lectured in botany there. 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.
In 1819 he joined the Wernerian [Natural History Society] in Edinburgh alongside his colleague Dr Walter Oudney and Henry Dewar, Robert Kaye Greville and George Dunbar.
In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Prof George Dunbar, Robert Jameson and Patrick [Neill (naturalist)|Patrick Neill]. He lived his final years at 24 Clerk Street in Edinburgh's South Side. He died in London on 29/30 August 1821.
Family
His wife Margaret died in Hertford in 1857, aged 87.Publications
- Observations on the Character and Writings of the Late William Royston FLS
- Herbarium Edinense: Dried Specimens of Plants Growing Chiefly in the Edinburgh Area co-written with Dr William Jameson