James Robinson Scott FRSE FLS PRMS (died 1821) was an 18th/19th century Scottish naval surgeon and amateur botanist. He served as Senior President of the Royal Medical Society 1818/19.
Life
editHe was born in Edinburgh around 1763.
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh 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 Henry Dewar, Robert Kaye Greville and 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. He died in London on 29/30 August 1821.[6]
Family
editPublications
edit- 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
edit- ^ A Sailor in the Sahara, J. B. Lockhart
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1818
- ^ Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, vol 3, p.539
- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820
- ^ The Edinburgh Annual Register 1821
- ^ British Medical Journal 1857
- ^ Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal vol 15
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